The Pre-Stage Guitar Book: Learn How to Get a Grip on Your First Guitar! Book

CHAPTER 1: Getting Started

Describes the best way to tune the guitar, choosing guitar pick and how to use it, proper positioning of the guitar, proper positioning of the hand on the guitar neck, positioning the fingers on the guitar neck and proper strumming of the guitar strings...

CHAPTER 2: How To Tune Your Guitar

Includes the proper way to keep your guitar in tune with a clear and easy to understand illustration for each string - a simple quick check method to tell you whether your guitar is in tune, also how to eliminate slippage - or the slack that occurs when tension on a string is lessened...

CHAPTER 3: Guitar String Note Names

Clear and bold illustration of each individual note and where they are located on the guitar neck, also which notes have two names are shown-enharmonic notes...

CHAPTER 4: The Staff & Note Names

Shows individual notes of the Staff - a staff is where music notation or notes are written - these notes are presented in a clear and easy to understand illustration and where these notes are located on the guitar neck, especially useful when looking at a piece of sheet music, takes the guess work out of knowing where a particular note is located on the guitar neck, shows exactly the fret and string that an individual note is located...

CHAPTER 5: Left Hand Finger Positioning

Shows the proper way to rest the hand on the guitar neck, the correct placement and positioning of fingers in order to produce the best sound from the guitar strings

CHAPTER 6: LET S GET GOING! (3 Finger Easy Practice Start-Up Chords)

Easy to understand illustrations of the seven most important chords to learn and memorize at the beginning along with chord combinations to practice them...

CHAPTER 7: Open Chord Combinations

Illustrates Basic Major, Minor, Dominant 7th, and Major 7th Chords. Describes Open Chord Progressions - a selected series of chords - in the simplest finger forms that can possibly be used for a beginner. There are plenty of practice chord progressions to get you going which are presented in bold, clear and easy to understand illustrations. From here you will be directed to a portion of the book where you will be able to CREATE YOUR OWN CHORD PROGRESSIONS and you decide which chord arrangements you would like to you use and be able to form endless chord progressions which always come out right because I describe which chords go with which chords in a very resourceful and uniquely illustrated Chord Combination Chart...

CHAPTER 8: Transposing Chord Patterns

Explains how to transpose chord progressions. Sometimes a melody or song may be too high or too low for your voice, you will learn how to change any chord progression to suit your voice in clear and easy to understand illustrations

CHAPTER 9: How To Read Open Chord Diagrams

Describes how to read the different parts of an Open Chord, such as which strings are played open and which strings are not played

CHAPTER 10: Most Commonly Played Open Guitar Chords

Illustrations of the most commonly played Open Chords and proper finger positioning, so that practice time will only be spent learning the chords that you will use frequently. These chords consist of the four most commonly played guitar chords from each key Major Chords, Dominant 7th Chords, Minor Chords and Major 7th Chords

CHAPTER 11: Chord Combination Chart

This chord chart is exactly what every beginning guitar player needs to make learning how to play the guitar simple and easy. It shows exactly which chords go with which chords, taking the guess work out of trial and error. You will always know which chords work together. Also makes transposing chord progressions very simple in order to change any chord progression from one key to another instantly. For example, if you want to change the chord progression G Major, E Minor, C Major and D Dominant 7th because it does not suit your voice, the chord chart will show you how to change the chord progression to any key, for instance, let s say you want to change the chord progression to a higher key like the Key of A, then the chord progression would be A Major, F# Minor, D Major and E Dominant 7th. The chord chart is readily available to do this for any chord progression