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Product Review Summary: Fantastic for absolute beginners I teach guitar to young beginners, and swear by this book. It's easy to follow, teaches in small, digestible pieces, with each new lesson building upon the last. Students who work through the book can choose to read standard notation or tablature; students could begin learning sight reading with this book. By the time the student has finished the book, he is able to play simple rock tunes using the minor pentatonic scale and power chords. I recommend getting the Beginning Rock Guitar for Kids Song Book for students who finish this book first.
Product Review Summary: For very young raw beginners. This book will give a young kid just enough to be able to get a sound or two out of an electric guitar. It's just enough to keep them from getting discouraged. That first year is where they either stick with it or sell their axe in a yard sale. With the materials in here, it is far easier for them to keep moving ahead.
Product Review Summary: skip it Although the book was not bad, I don't think it was what it claimed to be. Overall, the book stays with very simple notes a kid could play. Not much variety though. Maybe ok for kids <12 years old.
Product Review Summary: Awesome This product is wonderful. It is everything it says it is and more. I could actually follow and help my son through it. He is 10 years old and wants to be Slash. Great product!!!
Product Review Summary: This book is NOT as other reviewers will lead you to believe. Forty pages? Technically, yes, honestly? Several cheap photos of the guitarist ala 1970 Cheetos commercial fill out the pages. Not helpful photos of left and right hand positions, just silly shots. The few photos that are intended to illustrate are not clear. For example the before and after of how to hold a pick is ridiculous. A before shot? Really? The actual shot that would be useful has the camera in the wrong position.
There is no music instruction here.
No songs.
Only power chords, which are not even technically chords.
What the kid is supposed to come away with is vague.
Give some rhythms, some chord changes, some actual chords, if not actual songs. Save your money. What is of use here in forty pages is covered in a page or three in many other texts. Don't be seduced by the cover. This book is not rock and roll.
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