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No joke – and not a word of a lie, we’ve sold over a million music tuition methods on Amazon.

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Our books are consistently the best-selling music titles on Amazon and have received tens of thousands of positive reviews.

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Reading from your screen is one thing, but learning music is all about hearing it in action. Every book contains a link to download every example and backing track right to your computer

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“Whenever I teach students, I ask them about what books they have and they always like the books from Fundamental Changes. You guys have a great reputation! And, of course, I thank you for the opportunity to publish my own book – you did it so well!”

Mike Stern

“I’ve published eight books with Fundamental Changes and each one beautifully teaches a different element of my musical voice on guitar”

Dr Martin Taylor MBE

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Beginner’s Guitar Lessons: The Essential Guide

• Quickly Master the Basics of Playing Guitar

• Discover A Complete Method to Learning and Playing Chords

• Form a foundation of effortless, good technique and skills that will last a lifetime

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Categories: Beginner, Guitar Books Tag: Joseph Alexander
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Quickly Master the Guitar and Build Good Habits for Life-Long Learning

Beginner’s Guitar Lessons: The Essential Guide, teaches you to play the right way from the first time you pick up the instrument.

Learn to hold and strum the guitar, play in time, change chords, finger pick, plus much more

There are many common mistakes that beginner guitarists make that limit musical develop over a lifetime. Beginner’s Guitar: The Complete Guide forms a foundation of effortless good technique and skills that will last a lifetime.

Often, self-taught learners will ‘hit a wall’ later on due to bad techniques picked up early on

As a guitar teacher, time and time again I see adult guitarists who have come to a road block in their playing. It may be speed, changing chords, rhythm, or many other obstacles that were created when they first started learning. Most often, the student doesn’t even know what the problem is, or why it’s occurring.

By learning the correct skills early on, you will avoid many common challenges later in your development

Beginner’s Guitar Lessons: The Essential Guide contains

  • Many Clear Diagrams
  • Downloadable Audio of Each Example (50 separate audio tracks)
  • Complete Method to Learn Chords and Smoothly Change Between them.
  • The Correct way to Strum in Time
  • Finger Picking Examples.
  • Modern, Fun Chord Progressions to Practice
  • How to Read Chord Charts and Guitar Tablature (Tab)

Complete Chapter Listing:

  • The Important Things You Should Know
  • First Chords and Changes
  • Holding the Plectrum (Pick)
  • More Common Chord Changes
  • Strumming Part One
  • Changing Chords Whilst Strumming
  • New Chord Progressions to Practice
  • More Interesting Rhythms
  • Splitting the Chord
  • Descending Bass Lines
  • Fragments of Songs
  • Reading Guitar Tablature
  • Finger Picking Patterns
  • Further Study
  • Dictionary of Useful Chords

Check out the Excellent Reviews

“This outstanding book of true beginner’s lessons has me squarely on the path and hungering for more.”

This Book Will Get You Playing Guitar the Right Way

Get off on the right foot with this fun, comprehensive beginner’s guide to guitar.

Click to buy it now and there’s free delivery with Amazon Prime.

Reasons to Buy From Us

Over 1,000,000 happy customers.

No joke – and not a word of a lie, we’ve sold over a million music tuition methods on Amazon.

Over 10,000 5* Reviews

Our books are consistently the best-selling music titles on Amazon and have received tens of thousands of positive reviews.

Get every example in your book as an audio file – for free!

Reading from your screen is one thing, but learning music is all about hearing it in action. Every book contains a link to download every example and backing track right to your computer

Instant Delivery

Every book is delivered via download and email as soon as you hit buy now.

Learn from legendary musicians

We publish books by the greatest and most influential musicians in the world.

“Whenever I teach students, I ask them about what books they have and they always like the books from Fundamental Changes. You guys have a great reputation! And, of course, I thank you for the opportunity to publish my own book – you did it so well!”

Mike Stern

“I’ve published eight books with Fundamental Changes and each one beautifully teaches a different element of my musical voice on guitar”

Dr Martin Taylor MBE

“The artists you work with, and the quality of your work speaks for itself.”

Tommy Emmanuel

“Wow! You guys work hard and the material you produce is great!”

John Patitucci

“I wish these books had been available when I was learning to play. I can’t recommend them highly enough!”

Ulf Wakenius

“I can’t believe all the great books you’ve published!”

Jennifer Batten

“These books are great! You guys really know your s**t!”

Oz Noy

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