Easy Guitar For Kids: For Kids Of All Ages!

By Ged Brockie

Easy Guitar For Kids is an interactive book that makes it easy for children to learn the basics of guitar playing.

This beginner book covers the fundamentals, such as learning how to play chords, as well as songs and nursery rhymes.
Give your child the foundation they need to become a lifelong guitar player.

This book would be an excellent choice for the young beginner guitarist learning with a parent or guardian, or for use by guitar teachers as a foundational teaching aid for their own guitar lessons.

Although aimed at children, this book would be a gentle introduction to guitar playing for any age of person with plenty of multimedia help and extras offered as standard.

Easy Guitar For Kids includes:

• Advice on why your child should start learning guitar and playing music.
• Help in choosing the right guitar for your child and the types of guitar available.
• The basics like the parts that make up the guitar, the guitar strings and how to hold and play the instrument.
• How to tune a guitar and advice on plectrums, string names, how to understand chord boxes and reading simple guitar TAB and an introduction to music notation.
• A range of easy to play chords that will means by using the book, you'll be up and running in quickly.

Learn by learning to play the chords and strum along with these well known songs and nursery rhythms.

• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• Frere Jacques
• The Wheels On The Bus
• This Old Man
• Jack And Jill Went Up The Hill
• Old MacDonald Had A Farm

The book includes a range of simple easy to learn chord and melody exercises. In the final part of the book you'll learn how to play the melodies (tunes) of some of the songs you've already learned and new songs:

• Incy Wincy Spider
• Hush Little Baby
• Old MacDonald Had A Farm
• Jack And Jill Went Up The Hill
• London Bridge Is Falling Down

Easy Guitar For Kids includes photographs that reinforce the the text and music as well as images for children to view.

The book also includes:

• 19 videos that demonstrate chord and melody exercises available via QR code for viewing on cell/mobile phones and/or tablets.
• 11 demonstration QR codes to hear the finished song.
• A download to accompany this book of nearly 150MB including all the videos, mp3 demonstration and backing tracks of all songs used and a PDF of chords, scales and arpeggios if your child would like to know more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Guitar & Music Institute
• Release date: May 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9791223049433

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