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Guitar First Steps -- Strums, Fingerstyle and Soloing

Written by Lou Manzi

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52 pages, about 62 minutes of reading

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This book and DVD set is designed for the absolute beginner. It covers both acoustic & electric guitar, in all styles, teaching you basic strumming and chord patterns. You'll learn how to tune without an electronic tuner, how to read strum patterns in rhythmic notation, new chords, and new variations on familiar chords. It also explains the theory behind major scales, keys and the circle of 5ths, the two-note shuffle pattern used in blues, how to improvise by combining melodic phrases into a solo, how to transpose chord progressions into different keys, and much, much more!

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