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Guitar Book for Adult Beginners: Teach Yourself How to Play Famous Guitar Songs, Guitar Chords, Music Theory & Technique (Book & Streaming Video Lessons)

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Are you looking for the perfect beginner guitar book for adults? Music professor and professional guitarist Damon Ferrante has written the ideal beginner guitar book and video-lesson course for adult beginners! There are 108 beginner guitar lessons, 40 famous guitar songs, and 46 video lessons that make learning fast, relaxing, and enjoyable. This excellent, interactive beginner guitar book provides a complete foundation for learning acoustic and electric guitar. Damon Ferrante's clear and trusted beginner guitar method guides you on how to play the guitar with 108 lessons that progress step-by- step and cover how to play 40 famous songs, play guitar chords, learn the notes on the guitar neck, develop guitar technique, learn music theory, tune the guitar, and many more beginner guitar concepts. There are 46 streaming video lessons that make learning rapid, fun, and easy. The video lessons demonstrate how to play the songs, good guitar technique, and beginner music theory; it's like having an expert guitar teacher right there. Are you struggling to learn how to play the guitar but do not know where to start? This this book and video course for you! It makes learning how to play the guitar and playing famous songs easy, enjoyable, and relaxing for adult beginners (no music experience or music reading necessary). Whether you are new to the guitar or returning to it, this book is made to help you rapidly improve, build your confidence playing the guitar, and bring you joy. It is designed for adult beginners, guitar students, teachers, and self-learners. Are you looking for a beginner guitar book that is easy, fun, and is written by an expert guitar teacher? With over 1 million books sold, Rolling Stone Magazine recommends music professor Damon Ferrante's Guitar Book for Adult Beginners as the 1 Best Guitar Books for Beginners! Based on over 30 years of teaching experience, his easy-to-follow method is used by over a million guitar students and teachers. Here is a summary: This guitar book and video course is designed specifically for adults at the beginner level of guitar playing.There are 40 famous, beginner guitar songs. These are songs that guitarists know and love.There are 46 video lessons that show how to play the guitar songs and concepts, making learning the guitar easy and fast for beginners.This beginner guitar book for adults starts out at a very easy level and gently adds new guitar songs and concepts in a step-by-step manner to make learning fun. Beginners will make steady progress and greatly improve their guitar playing.No music experience or music reading is necessary. The beginner guitarist will learn how to read music with this comprehensive beginner guitar book for adults. The book is designed to build confidence in guitar playing and bring joy and relaxation through music. Damon Ferrante is an award-winning music professor and professional guitarist. He has over 35 years of guitar teaching experience. The beginner guitar student will greatly benefit from his extensive teaching knowledge for guitar.The equivalent of several years of guitar lessons, this guitar book and video course is great for beginners both learning with a teacher and learning on their own. Here are some of the famous songs that are covered in this book and video course: Amazing Grace House of the Rising Sun Scarborough Fair Shenandoah Happy Birthday Kum-Bah- Yah Jingle Bells Home on the Range This Little Light of Mine Take Me Out to the Ballgame Red River Valley Silent Night When the Saints Go Marching In Greensleeves Aura Lee And Many More Great Songs! Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Steeplechase Arts


Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 6, 2017


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 118 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0692996966


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 66


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.27 x 11 inches


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    • Great, thorough beginning guitar book with a lot of text and video lessons
Format: Spiral-bound
A wonderful book for beginners containing many familiar songs. I especially like the ability to access audio clips on line.. With 108 lessons, 40 videos and 40 songs, there is more than enough material to get anyone on their way to playing and enjoying the guitar. I found the streaming video lessons to be really helpful and combined with the text helps people that learn best in different ways. Starting with a discussion of the guitar itself and moving on to the most simple chords makes the process both thorough and helpful for beginners. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2026 by Winter
    • Very easy to understand, very helpful
Format: Paperback
I decided to pick up gutair again (I had played a little bit several years ago but I wasn't any good) and got this book so I could learn and help my daughter practice her gutair. I learned a ton! However, I was a professional musician and made a full time living with the military for a few years. I might be more prone to understand and pick things up. I typically can teach myself to play instruments. I was able to go through all the lessons (100+) in a few days. My perspective may be different than someone who doesn't have much musical or any musical experience. My only complaint is that I have a hard time understanding the barre chord section of the book. I wish the chord progressions for the songs had the tab for the chords on the same page so I didn't have to flip back and forth so much. They'd spread it out. One page you learn the chords, a fe lages later you use the chords in a song and then later on play the individual notes. So there'sots of flipping back and forth. Overall, I had lots of fun with this book and felt confident enough to order other books to help me build my skills as well as tab books for ACDC, ZZ Top, and Queen. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2023 by breanna
    • Beginners guitar book
Format: Paperback
Good book but not as "beginner" as I would have liked. To me me it's leaning more towards intermediate.
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2023 by Glenn
    • Guitar book for beginners. Guitar book for beginners.
Format: Paperback
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I am new to guitar playing. I have chosen Electric Guitar as i like the build and looks. At first, I was learning from Youtube. I have gathered considerable knowledge in theory but lack the practical skills. This book from Professor Ferrante is complementing my missing gaps. Now i am already playing some melodies. I like the "Three Chords and the Truth". I keep my finger exercises concise that i have learn from Internet. I am currently in lesson 10 in the book and enjoying every moment. I highly recommend anyone who wish to learn acoustic or electric to grab this book, its a great start. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2025 Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2025 by Wassim
    • I'm at lesson 20
Format: Paperback
I'm a little conflicted with this book. It's a great book if you are looking to start learning cords as the book slowly progresses through many cords and builds on them. I'm conflicted because I spend some time hyper focused learning about music theory and root notes prior to its arrival. Here is the deal, the book starts you off with a few cords (ex: C major) but doesn't explicitly state it is omitting parts of the cord. This had me confused until I googled the actual cord and seen that they are only showing a part of the full cord. (the root note cannot be G if the cord is a C major ((it has to be C))). Then I got over to the next set where they begin to show some sheet music next to the cord and it doesn't seem that the sheet music they are showing represents the cord that they are expecting to be played... which is confusing. Perhaps later in the book things begin to clear up, I wont give up on it as I want to learn cords as well but the start has be a bit worried about methods. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2023 by Kayla
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Format: Paperback
Gave it to my granddaughter she loves it
Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2026 by Suzanna
    • VERY GOOD ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS LEARNING BOOK!
Format: Paperback
This book is very good, a thorough introduction to learning to play the guitar with 0 experience! Coming from a classical piano (intermediate level) background, this book is quite easy to follow, intuitive if anything. When I was playing worship piano (urban Black gospel, CCM [Contemporary Christian Music] songs), for the various churches, I often struggled to follow along the guitar chords that the keyboardists were expected to know and have an understanding of, since a lot of today's Christian worship music is mostly guitar driven. I chose to take it upon myself to learn the guitar, in order to have a better understanding of how chords work. In classical piano, you follow the sheet music and play it EXACTLY as it is written, finger numberings and all. However, classical piano DOES NOT teach you how to improvise, and that is where I encountered difficulty in following along with the worship music lead sheet that was given to me during the worship rehearsal practices. I hope that having a basic and working knowledge of the guitar will help me to understand how to play the modern church music songs that have become so commonplace. Highly recommended book for everyone, regardless of the level. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2022 by Doozy.kaboo
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