Knack Guitar for Everyone: A Step-By-Step Guide To Notes, Chords, And Playing Basics (Knack: Make It Easy) - Softcover

Weissman, Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159921511X ISBN 13: 9781599215112

Publisher: Knack, 2010

Synopsis

Knack Guitar for Everyone is a self-instruction book for beginners to intermediates, fully illustrated with 350 full-color photographs and more than fifty exercises and songs in musical notation. By Dick Weismann, who is the author of numerous successful music books and has performed on the Today Show, it covers everything one needs to know about the instrument itself―the parts, different kinds of guitars, care for guitars―and provides the basics of reading guitar music and playing. Lessons are geared toward achievable results, and sidebars address various styles and techniques. Plus, there are a book's worth of play-along audio tracks available for free at knackbooks.com/guitar.

About this title

About the Author

Dick Weissman has written sixteen published books about music and the music business, and over forty instructional music folios on guitar, banjo and songwriting. His co-authored book, The Folk Music Sourcebook, won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Music Critics Award. His recent book, Which Side Are You On? An Inside History of the Folk Music Revival, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in non-fiction writing in 2007, and another work, The Music Business: Career Opportunities & Self Defense. Visit him at dickweissman.com. Julie Keefe is a freelance photojournalist. KeefeKlicker Studio, founded in 1987, serves as a creative base for Keefe and her husband, John Klicker, the photographer for Knack Drums for Everyone. Visit them at www.keefeklicker.com.

From the Back Cover

Have you always wanted to play the guitar, but been turned off by the latest “how to” book? Enter Knack Guitar for Everyone. With 350 full-color photos—along with clear, step-by-step instructions geared toward achievable results; more than fifty music exercises; and accompanying audio tracks
at knackbooks.com/guitar—it makes truly befriending the world’s most popular instrument easier than ever. You’ll learn to choose what style of guitar is right for you. And you’ll finally master the basics—how to find a guitar, how to hold it, and how to develop simple techniques that will provide you with years of fun!

 

350 full-color photos covering:
Gear Care & Tuning
Holding the Guitar
Tablature & Music
Strings * Basic Songs
C, F, & Simple Chords
Fingerpicking

Edition details

• Publisher: Knack
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159921511X
• ISBN 13: 9781599215112
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256