Teach Yourself to Play Guitar has been created specifically for the student with no music-reading background. It offers the beginning guitarist a comprehensive introduction to essential guitar-playing fundamentals using easy-to-interpret diagrams, photos and illustrations.

This method can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by teachers for private or group instruction. It is a complete guide to the basics, designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and a professional-quality CD with 99 full-demo tracks.

This method can be used by students who want to teach themselves, or by teachers for private or group instruction. It is a complete guide to the basics, designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and a professional-quality CD with 99 full-demo tracks.

This companion songbook to the Play Guitar Today! method books features 10 great songs: American Pie (Don McLean) • Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf) • Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison) • Every Breath You Take (The Police) • I Shot the Sheriff (Bob Marley/Eric Clapton) • Let It Be (The Beatles) • And More.

This first book launches you straight into a hands-on contemporary approach to learning the basics of both guitar and music. The essential visual element of shapes and patterns on the fingerboard unlock the secret to successful and creative playing.

This book gives you a more detailed look into chord shapes and single note patterns that were introduced in Basics 1. You will learn how to move shapes and patterns to create exciting leads and melodies. Learn more playing techniques.

For electric or acoustic guitar - or both! Teaches music notation, tablature, Full chords and power chords, riffs, licks, and scales, and rock and blues styles. Method Book 1 includes 73 songs and examples.

Covers power chords, barre chords, riffs, slides, bends, strumming patterns, fifth position, rock, blues and other styles. Includes 92 songs and examples.

The FastTrack songbooks were designed to supplement the FastTrack method books, but also can be used independently. They feature 8 great songs by artists including The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, and Van Halen.

The fast way to find just the chord or scale you need. This user-friendly reference book is jam-packed with over 1,400 chords and voicings and includes a “jam session” with 20 original songs using common chord progressions.

The Fast Track songbooks were designed to supplement the Fast Track method books, but also can be used independently. Includes 8 great songs: Back in the U.S.S.R. • Born to Be Wild • I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man • Imagine • Layla • Maggie May • No Particular Place to Go • Takin' Care of Business •

Book 2 continues the instruction started in Book 1 and covers: Am, Dm, A, E, F and B7 chords; power chords; fingerstyle guitar; syncopations, dotted rhythms, and triplets; Carter style solos; bass runs; pentatonic scales; improvising; tablature; 92 great songs, riffs and examples; notes in first and second position; and more!

Book 3 covers: the major, minor, pentatonic and chromatic scales, sixteenth notes; barre chords; drop D tuning; movable scales; notes in fifth position; slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs and string bends; chord construction; gear; great songs, riffs & examples; and more!

Learn to play rhythm and lead rock guitar with the step-by-step lessons and 70 great rock songs in this book/CD pack! The Hal Leonard Rock Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning rock guitar. This book uses real rock songs – no corny rock arrangements of nursery rhymes here!

The Hal Leonard Blues Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning blues guitar. This book uses real blues songs – no corny arrangments of nursery rhymes here! (well, except “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” but this is NOT the version you learned in kindergarten!)

This book uses real country songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead country guitar in the style of Chet Atkins, James Burton, Albert Lee, Merle Travis, and many others. Lessons include: Chords, Scales and Licks • Common Progressions and Riffs • Carter Style and Travis Picking • Steel Licks

The foundation of The Wolf Marshall Guitar Method is now available with CD accompaniment! Designed for the beginning student, the primer teaches the fundamentals of guitar playing and note reading through carefully selected etudes and pieces. The CD makes Wolf's vital first step to playing the guitar even better!

Newly revised! The second edition of this world-famous method by Will Schmid and greg Koch is preferred by teachers because it makes them more effective while making their job easier. Students enjoy its easy-to-follow format that gives them a solid music education while letting them play songs right away.

Here's a book geared specifically to the needs of younger beginners. From picking up the guitar for the first time to power chords to easy blues solos, it's all here, and it's all written in an easy-to-understand style for kids ages 10-14.

An easy, carefully graduated note-reading method which provides an introduction to the rudiments of music through enjoyable single-note exercises and solos. As this book includes diagrams and photos of the location of the notes in first position, it serves as a good precursor to Modern Guitar Method, Grade 1.

An excellent beginner's tool which teaches simple chord strumming. This package includes the companion CD, which is in stereo play-along format, allowing the student to strum along each tune with a recorded string band. All songs from the book are included on the CD.

"The heart of this guitar course is the true love of the instrument that Chet Atkin's good-natured presence projects. His enthusiasm is infectious and his legendary mastery is evident in the beautiful simplicity with which an enormous amount of information is conveyed," says New Video Review.

Learning Notes / Playing Solos

This very easy to understand, step by step introduction to note reading and guitar solo performance presents basic notes in first position. It features a companion play-along CD and special sections on types of guitars, frequently asked questions, how to string a guitar and more.

Add to your repertoire and reinforce your technique with this collection of traditional, easy-to-play kids' songs. Bring these beautiful melodies to life by listening to the recordings on the companion CD, then using the transcriptions to practice single-note melodies, basic strums and basslines, and simple chords.

A popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. This approach to learning integrates, from the very beginning, chord playing and note reading. Full of creative illustrations and color. The CD features William Bay on guitar and is recorded in a split-track format.

This DVD supplements the popular and creative method of the same title for teaching guitar to young children. From the beginning it integrates chord playing with note reading. The student starts with easy one finger chord forms and strums accompaniments to numerous songs. Note reading is then methodically and carefully introduced.

This is a popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. From the beginning it integrates chord playing with note reading. The student starts with easy one finger chord forms and strums accompaniments to numerous songs. Note reading is then methodically and carefully introduced.