Guitar: The First 100 Chords for Guitar: How to Learn and Play Guitar Chords: The Complete Beginner Guitar Method
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Master Essential Guitar Chords and Establish Good Habits for a LifetimeDiscover how to play every essential chord on guitarUnderstand how chords work togetherBuild chord progressions and master strummingUnderstand chord theory and constructionInstantly apply and use chords to make songsThe First 100 Chords for GuitaristsAre you struggling to learn guitar chords?Would you like an effective way to memorize, play and combine chords to make music on the guitar?Do you want to confidently strum rhythms the right way?Do you want to build perfect practice habits that will stay with you for a lifetime? The First 100 Chords for Guitar will teach you to correctly fret, strum and combine the essential chords in music to become a better musician, quickly and easily. Here’s What You Get: A complete course, building from the first essential guitar chords to help you memorize, understand and apply chords musically.A proven practice routine that helps you build muscle memory, great technique and musical knowledge.Understanding of how to play chords the right way, and the theory of how they are constructedOne instant trick to teach your fingers how to move - subconsciously Bonus One: Learn to link chords together in a truly unique, musical way. Linking chords means practice is always fun as you explore creative ideas.Bonus Two: A complete guide to essential strumming patterns on guitar. Are you Missing Part of the Puzzle?Most guitar beginners know a few chords but few actually understand that it is quick and easy to expand that vocabulary into hundreds of chords and colors.The First 100 Chords for Guitar is not simply a cold list of chords, it’s a complete guitar method for beginners that teaches you how to practice for a lifetime of good guitar habits.From the most basic chords, right through to some rich and exciting advanced voicings, you will be guided in small friendly steps. Throughout, there is an emphasis on using the correct fingers, changing chords smoothly, building great technique and developing creativity.Test Yourself! At the end of each chapter, the newly introduced chords are combined into real-life chord progressions. How to Practice! – Also included is a detailed ‘How to Practice’ section along with dedicated chapters on Essential Strumming Patterns and some Chord Theory. Hear it!Learning chords from paper is one thing, but once you hear how to apply them, they become music. The First 100 Chords for Guitarists contains many supporting audio examples to help you get inside the music, and quickly apply every new chord in a musical situation.Get the audio for free from www.fundamental-changes.comThis book is Free on Kindle Unlimited
Reviews
I picked up the guitar, along with Joseph Alexander's Beginner's Guess Lessons, a couple of months ago. Having taken a long hiatus from playing, except for a few failed and frustrating attempts to rush into all the material I knew ten or more years ago, I was thrilled with the author's teaching style and the quick progress I made. The First 100 Chords for Guitar is a fine extension for continuing my practice.The material in the first two chapters is similar to what is covered in Beginner's Guitar Lessons. Likewise, the practice routine and strumming patterns given are also much the same. That's what makes this title a success. With each new chord, Mr. Alexander takes the student through a routine to first build muscle memory for the fingering and then quickly places it in context by practicing chord changes and progressions. By the end of the first chapter alone, a student has the tools to play the rhythm to a huge number of songs, especially in the keys of A, C and G major, as well as E and A minor.More importantly, this book doesn't just give chord shapes and exercises before rushing on to more chord shapes and exercises. Mr. Alexander, as in Beginner's Guitar Lessons, urges patience and mastery. His teaching and practice methods don't merely show the student new chords, but aim to drill the muscles until playing that chord feels as natural as tapping your foot to the beat of your favorite song. He also provides a sensible plan for building speed with strumming chord changes and plenty of example chord progressions for practice.A few notes:1. Don't expect to rush through the lessons. Following the routine correctly, it will take about 20 minutes, give or take, to work through the first two chords properly. But, done properly, those two chords will be completely ingrained in your muscles memory.2. A metronome is a must for keeping time, as the practice routine speeds you along from single strums at a slow tempo to playing quarter and eighth note rhythms. Lots of apps for this; pick one, learn how it works and use it religiously.3. If you follow the methods given by the author, you're playing will improve.4. As with Beginner's Guitar Lessons, the one glaring omission is a section on tuning (at least in the Kindle version - I can't speak for the print version.) A properly fingered chord on an out of tune guitar sounds like a duck fight, so get a tuner (again, lots of apps for this) and tune your instrument before each practice session. Maybe I'm a harsh critic, but this is too important to leave out of a book geared toward beginners, and is the only thing holding me back from giving a five star rating.
