Guitar Products for Beginner Guitarists

  Learn to Play Blues Guitar Level 1 The House of Blues and the producers of The Rock House Method have joined together to offer a unique and comprehensive beginner program that will have you playing blues guitar in no time! Throughout the more than 90 minutes of one-on-one lessons with inst..
Customer Review: Great Beginner Blues Lessons
This is a great starting off point for those who want to learn the blues.
Customer Review: SIMPLY THE BEST!
I have been playing guitar since 1983. For many years, I have been looking for an instructional device that will help me get to another level. Once I got past the firt couple of ch...

  Learn to Play Acoustic Guitar Beginner The House of Blues and the producers of The Rock House Method have joined together to offer this unique and comprehensive beginner acoustic program. This jam packed instructional DVD covers the complete spectrum of techniques and components that will hav..
Customer Review: Really good beginner's DVD
I've been trying to learn on and off for a few months now and I would say this was a great place to begin looking. This DVD was very helpful and it goes along with a booklet you re...
Customer Review: Easy to understand!
There are lots of self-teaching DVD's out there, but this one is really great and easy to follow along.

  Learn to Play Rippin' Lead Guitar This video contains everything you need to take your lead guitar playing to the next level. Paul teaches you 10 hot lead guitar solos that will help you to learn all the licks, tricks, scales & techniques you'll need to play lead guitar like a pro. Learn to improve your phrasing, develop your own style, build your chops, and play over the entire fretboard in any key. Paul's unique approach to teaching lead guitar is easy to follow, and will help you learn to play rock & blues lead guitar like the masters. Contains on-screen tablature & Split-screen close ups, so you won't miss a lick, (Tab booklet included) Includes: Major & Minor pentatonic scales, Blues Scales, The natural minor scale, Phrasing, Building a solo, The octave pattern, Inventing your own scale patterns, Hybrid picking, & much more.
Customer Review: Not much
The presenter lacks on public speaking skills and the workshop could be delivered with a booklet on scales and a CD. I didn't get much out of it as I did with some famous Hal Leona...
Customer Review: A good instructional video
"Learn to Play Rippin' Lead Guitar" is a good instructional video for the beginning to intermediate guitarist. It includes ten lead guitar solos that help you to learn licks, scal...

  Guitar Method Version 4.0 eMedia's Guitar Method 4 is a new version of the world's best-selling beginning guitar CD-ROM! Over 160 comprehensive lessons cover everything from the basics through chord strumming, playing melodies and fingerpicking. New modern rock chapter includes various strumming styles, movable power chords and power chord riffs. Now with over 50 videos! Multi-track audio gives full band accompaniment on many of the hit songs. There is a variable-speed MIDI track option allowing students to practice any song or exercise at whatever tempo they want. There is also the option to learn using either tablature or standard music notation. Additional features include a built-in automatic tuner, digital metronome, recorder and 250-chord dictionary.
Customer Review: Not bad but limited
I have had this program for about 4 months and still find myself trying to master some of the most basic songs. The longer I have used the more it seems that it focuses on "campfi...
Customer Review: This is a very good buy.
After trying to learn guitar on my own off and on over the last twenty years, this product is actually teaching me how to play. Rather than starting with scales or other theory th...

  Guitar Electronics Understanding Wiring and Diagrams: Learn step by step how to completely wire your electric guitar THIS IS THE ONLY WIRING GUIDE YOU WILL EVER NEED TO BUY. Learn step by step how to completely wire Telecaster, Stratocaster, Esquire, and Les Paul guitars and all of the potentiometers, capacitors, switches, ground wires, hot wires, pickups, output jack, and bridge ground. Even if you dont have a Fender or Gibson, this guide will teach you how to wire a guitar with 1, 2, or 3 pickups. Also learn where you can get the complete wiring kits for dirt cheap, and learn essential soldering tips. Why not learn how to change your pickups, tone or volume controls, switches, and capacitors yourself? There are a ton of modifications you can do to your guitar for dirt cheap. This book will also show you some secret "hot rod" techniques that the pros use. This book will teach you how to do coil tapping, coil cutting, phase switching, series wiring, parallel wiring, bridge-on switching, mini toggle switching, varitone switching, mega switching, yamaha switching, blend pots, and much more !!!
Customer Review: Exhaustively detailed and comprehensive! A must have!
This is a fabulous book. I have been building and customizing electric guitars for years and I got my money's worth in the first 20-30 pages of this book. It really expanded my u...
Customer Review: Excellent for non-tech types
My wife bought this book for me as a surprise gift. I've been doing some minor repairs and setup on a few of my axes for a while and she thought this book might help. She was right...

  JAMSTAR Play With The Band - VOLUME ONE JAMSTAR - VOLUME ONE (WIN 2000XP)
Customer Review: AWESOME PRODUCT!
I got this from a recomendation of a friend of mine that used it to learn to play guitar. He said it was SO MUCH easier than the lessons we tried to take to learn to play, and he w...
Customer Review: Proud Mom of Future Rock Star :-)
I am so happy with this product! I bought it for my 13 year old son, and he's already playing along with the band on the DVD after one day of using it! I can't get him to put the g...

  Learn Guitar Techniques: Rockabilly Learn rockabilly licks and killer techniques with Steve Trovato. This excellent two hour DVD will teach you some of the guitar techniques that influenced rockabilly guitarists worldwide! If you're looking to take your playing to the next level, this superb DVD will provide you with an arsenal of rockabilly licks that you can incorporate into your own soloing repertoire!. The DVD is presented by Steve Trovato who is best known as a world class country guitarist, but is equally proficient in a wide range of popular guitar styles. He has written a number of bestselling guitar tuition books, and between touring maintains a full time position in the Guitar Department at the University of Southern California.
Customer Review: Learn Guitar Techniques Rockabilly
Steve Trovato is possibily the fines guitar teacher in the world. Wish he would make more of these DVDs. His demostration is very informative, he explains everything so carefully...
Customer Review: Good instruction, no printed music
Previous instructional DVDs I've purchased came with a TAB version of the music (or at least the ability to d/l if from a website) so I could clearly see what the instructor was do...

  Emily Remler: Bebop and Swing Guitar This is an opportunity to learn with one of jazz guitar's most gifted artists the late Emily Remler. All of the essentials of true jazz bebop and swing are taught here including Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino styles working with the metronome on 2 and 4 learning to identify changes jazz-style blues turnarounds practice tips passing notes and chords chord substitutions the Charleston rhythm octave-style playing Latin swing style and much more! Emily Remler was one of the hottest jazz players to come around in a long time.System Requirements:Running Time: 60 minsFormat: DVD AUDIO Genre: MUSIC DVD/DOCUMENTARY Artist: REMLER EMILY UPC: 752187441878 Manufacturer No: HOT330
Customer Review: Emily Remler Bebop and swing guitar
Excellent instructional Dvd. Shows you important rhythm emphasis, that other instructors dont. A keeper, and something I will use as a reference
tool over the years.
Customer Review: Rare chance to see and hear Emily's great playing and deep emotion
First of all, both Emily Remler Hot Licks DVDs are worth buying for their moving end messages and introductory performances alone.
After watching these DVDs you realize what ...

  Guitar Electronics Understanding Wiring and Diagrams: Learn step by step how to completely wire your electric guitar THIS IS THE ONLY WIRING GUIDE YOU WILL EVER NEED TO BUY. Learn step by step how to completely wire Telecaster, Stratocaster, Esquire, and Les Paul guitars and all of the potentiometers, capacitors, switches, ground wires, hot wires, pickups, output jack, and bridge ground. Even if you dont have a Fender or Gibson, this guide will teach you how to wire a guitar with 1, 2, or 3 pickups. Also learn where you can get the complete wiring kits for dirt cheap, and learn essential soldering tips. Why not learn how to change your pickups, tone or volume controls, switches, and capacitors yourself? There are a ton of modifications you can do to your guitar for dirt cheap. This book will also show you some secret "hot rod" techniques that the pros use. This book will teach you how to do coil tapping, coil cutting, phase switching, series wiring, parallel wiring, bridge-on switching, mini toggle switching, varitone switching, mega switching, yamaha switching, blend pots, and much more !!!
Customer Review: Exhaustively detailed and comprehensive! A must have!
This is a fabulous book. I have been building and customizing electric guitars for years and I got my money's worth in the first 20-30 pages of this book. It really expanded my u...
Customer Review: Excellent for non-tech types
My wife bought this book for me as a surprise gift. I've been doing some minor repairs and setup on a few of my axes for a while and she thought this book might help. She was right...

  The "First Stage" Guitar Book: Learn How To Play Guitar Easily & Quickly! The "First Stage" Guitar Book is for the anxious beginner who desires a direct no frills method to learning how to play guitar without pages and pages of reading before you start putting your fingers on the strings and begin strumming some music right away; it is also a great reference guitar book for those who already play some. Recently revised and updated with more easy to understand guitar learning information.

All instructions are boldly and clearly illustrated in the most easiest to understand finger shapes.

This must have guitar book is a generous welcome addition to better understand all other guitar books you may already have in your learn how to play guitar collection.

The "First Stage" Guitar Book introduces and guides you to learning:

* Clear and bold illustrations of the most commonly played guitar chords for every key in the easiest to play Open & Barre chord shapes, for example, Major, Major 7ths, Major Dominant 7ths, Minor, Minor 7ths, and 9ths

* The absolutely must have Chord Combination Chart which clearly illustrates which chords go with chords in the same key. Practice chord progressions galore in every key. You will enjoy putting your own creations together with this indispensible chord chart

* Simple techniques of changing one chord to other chords of the same root note names by just lifting a finger or two

* Transposing any chord progression to the key that is the most comfortable for your voice

* Power Chords

* How to read and write in Tablature (Tabs)

* A simple method to maintaining a steady rhythm while strumming

* Clear illustrations of every note on the guitar neck fret board and where each note is located in standard notation and sheet music

The coil bind format allows the guitar book to remain flat for easy viewing of both the left and right side of each page.

Special Note: Both The "First Stage" Guitar Book and The "Guitar Book" (red cover) contain the same learning information. Here you have a choice of which cover art you prefer. This text refers to both the Coil Bind and Paperback Editions.
Customer Review: The First Stage Guitar Book
Better than I anticipated. I had expected the original version. What I received is a newer version which has been revised and updated: contains more pages with more examples, chord...
Customer Review: OK
This book is better suited for people who already know guitar basics. You shouldn't play chords if you're not comfortable playing notes

  The Acoustic Guitar Method - Complete Edition: Learn to Play Using the Techniques and Songs of American Roots Music (Acoustic Guitar (String Letter)) A complete collection of all three Acoustic Guitar Method books and CDs in one volume! Learn how to play guitar with the only beginning method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. Beginning with a few basic chords and strums, you'll start right in learning real music drawn from blues, folk, country and bluegrass traditions. You'll learn how to find notes on the fingerboard, expand your collection of chords by learning songs in various keys, and learn different kinds of picking patterns. When you're done with this method series, you'll know dozens of the tunes that form the backbone of American music, using a variety of flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques. Songs include: Bury Me Beneath the Willow * Delia * Frankie and Johnny * The Girl I Left Behind Me * House of the Rising Sun * Ida Red * In the Pines * Little Sadie * Man of Constant Sorrow * Sally Goodin * Scarborough Fair * Will the Circle Be Unbroken? * and many more.
Customer Review: ACOUSTIC GUITAR 2 DAVID HAMBURGER
GREAT PRODUCT. RECOMMEND FOR ANY BEGINNER GUITAR PLAYER. FORGET WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS SAYING, SUCH AS THIS IS MORE LIKE FOR CHILDREN ETC,. THIS WILL GIVE YOU A GREAT FOUNDATION. Y...
Customer Review: The Right Stuff for beginning guitarists...
This book is excellent for beginning to intermediate acoustic guitarists 10 yrs. old and up. It's not the be-all and end-all, but does the job quite nicely. I've been using it to...

  CLASSICAL GUITAR MANUAL: COMPLETE LEARN TO PLAY INSTRUCTIONS WITH 2 CDS (Progressive: Complete Learn to Play Instructions) Progressive COMPLETE LEARN TO PLAY CLASSICAL GUITAR MANUAL is everything you wanted to know about Classical Guitar playing, contained within one book. Use of tablature makes this the ideal method for any guitarist wishing to develop Classical styles. Takes the student from beginner through to advanced level using over 100 solo and duet studies and pieces, along with numerous exercises - all of which are recorded on the accompanying CD's. All techniques are explained and recorded in detail. An essential guide for guitarists at any level.
Customer Review: Great Book
This is one of the best book of the series. I would recommend this book over the rest. The only one that comes close is the one that says Guitar on the front. Recommend fingerpi...
Customer Review: Awesome, the frustration is ending
I have struggled with steel string acoustic and electric guitar for years. What a relief to be able to play beautiful music from notation and tab just after reading the first few ...