Beginning Guitar for Adults: The Grown-Up Approach to Playing Guitar, Book & CD

By Nick Vecchio

Do something nice for yourself. Learn to play the music you enjoy. Use books that don't talk down to you. Quickly learn chords, melodies and strums, playing both with a pick and using fingerstyle technique. This fun introduction to guitar is great for self-learners or private lessons with a teacher. 96 pages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929395019
• ISBN13: 9781929395019
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 0.3" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Awesome for first time players

Before I picked up this book, I knew nothing about guitars. After finishing it, I can now play the basic riffs to a lot of my favorite songs. The great thing is that it gets you playing and understanding chords really fast. If you want to learn sheet music notation or just use tabs that make it easy for anyone to start playing (like me), I definitely recommend starting with this book. It starts out simple but keeps pushing you to add together everything you've learned. Before you know it you're playing songs you've heard for years.

Great Book.

I have used this book with number of adult students as well as high schoolers who want to learn the basics about playing the guitar. This book offers a great foundation for someone that has never played before. If you or a student has played before and you want a book I'd suggest "I Used to Play Guitar." This book skips the folk melodies that are prominent in many other methods. The basics of a wide variety of styles and techniques are covered.

Good beginners' book

Guitar is the third instrument I've taken up as an adult, and found this method book and accompanying CD very good and thorough. A few of the tracks on the CD are a little fast for beginners, but you can get players that will slow them down.

Pretty Darn Good

I've taught beginners using several "method" books (Mel Bay, Bay and Christianson, Leavitt's Berklee series), and I've currently settled on this one. While I'd prefer not using tablature as a crutch, many students refuse to learn standard notation. Vecchio's book has both, so the motivated student can learn standard notation. Additionally, students respond better to modern material than "Wildwood Flower" or the dreaded "Fourth String Study". The combination of flatpick and fingerstyle is also a nice touch.

A must-have for guitar beginners

I've been taking lessons from Nick for several months now. Really cool guy and an awesome musucian. His book offers very down-to-earth and fun way to enter the world of guitar playing.