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back to basics: need a good book for guitar basics

  • 05-11-2007 9:31pm
    #1
    fret_wimp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 240 ✭✭


    I havnt really played guitar in a few years and i wana go back to basics, learn properly now that ive forgottten many of my bad habbits. i want a book that will teach me basic guitar theory, and has exercises to help me learn it. my eventual aim is to be a comfortable acoustic blues player but im happing learning about 1st, 3rds and 5ths until im ready to move on. anyone recommend a good book? i know i should get a teacher, but i cant really fit to a teachers schedule and any i know will only take me at set times. all recommendations appriciated. thanks.


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  • #2
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    fret_wimp wrote: »
    I havnt really played guitar in a few years and i wana go back to basics, learn properly now that ive forgottten many of my bad habbits. i want a book that will teach me basic guitar theory, and has exercises to help me learn it. my eventual aim is to be a comfortable acoustic blues player but im happing learning about 1st, 3rds and 5ths until im ready to move on. anyone recommend a good book? i know i should get a teacher, but i cant really fit to a teachers schedule and any i know will only take me at set times. all recommendations appriciated. thanks.

    first thing i'll say is that when it comes to acoustic blues learning by ear is the best. it's a bit like trad, there are rhythms and syncopation in it which are hard to express by notation.

    I dont know how basic you mean by basic, but one book i did find quite useful was Mel Bay's "Shake that thing, the guitar of Mississippi John Hurt" it's not all that difficult if you know you're basic chord shapes. it will give you the picking style and the chord structure of the songs but in tab, quite good i found.


  • #3
    bostonian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 141 ✭✭bostonian


    Best guitar/ theory instruction book ever written, IMO:

    http://www.amazon.com/Total-Guitar-Terry-Burrows/dp/1402709803

    I taught myself LOADS from that book.


  • #4
    colm_r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭colm_r


    For learning to play acoustic blues you might also consider DVDs.

    Stefan Grossman has a whole series of DVDs on the subject which are very good.
    http://guitarvideos.com/video/000notefromstefan.htm


  • #5
    ogill2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭ogill2000


    goggle in, guitar principals buy the dvd and book and you will never look back.


  • #6
    My name is Todd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭My name is Todd


    The Guitar Grimoire is an almanac for beginners right up to advanced. Check it out on the web - it's not cheap but it's highly recommended, and as far as I know the latest versions come with DVD's.


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