Beginning Rock Guitar for Kids: A Fun, Easy Approach to Playing Today’s Rock Guitar Styles
August 29, 2010 in Local Music by stagemaster
- 40 pages
- Size: 9.00″ x 12.00″
- Editor: Jimmy Brown
- ISBN: 1423411315
Product Description
This fun, easy rock guitar method was designed specifically for kids, featuring cool riffs and licks in the style of some of today’s hottest rock stars. It covers the fundamentals needed to get started – how to hold the guitar, basic left- and right-hand technique, tuning the guitar, music notation – and gets you jamming on simple rhythm and lead patterns…. More >>
Beginning Rock Guitar for Kids: A Fun, Easy Approach to Playing Today’s Rock Guitar Styles
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The kids found the book to be interesting, and as far as it goes, useful as well. The exercises and commentary are all written to the children’s abilities. My problem with this bookis that it is just too short and too simple.
Just as the kids are starting to feel like they aren’t wasting their time; just as they are seeing some progress; and just as they are eager to turn the page and learn the next bit, the book ends, with the final page telling them that they are now on their own, and that the best way to learn guitar is to listen to their favorite music and try to follow along.
Well, if the authors had said that on the first page we could have saved a little money and simply bypassed this book altogether. I think it is a great disservice to kids eager to learn, to tell them [after they have spent their money and time buying and following a guitar book] that they shouldn’t really be using books to learn guitar.
Rating: 2 / 5
I teach guitar to young beginners, and swear by this book. It’s easy to follow, teaches in small, digestible pieces, with each new lesson building upon the last. Students who work through the book can choose to read standard notation or tablature; students could begin learning sight reading with this book. By the time the student has finished the book, he is able to play simple rock tunes using the minor pentatonic scale and power chords. I recommend getting the Beginning Rock Guitar for Kids Song Book for students who finish this book first.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book will give a young kid just enough to be able to get a sound or two out of an electric guitar. It’s just enough to keep them from getting discouraged. That first year is where they either stick with it or sell their axe in a yard sale. With the materials in here, it is far easier for them to keep moving ahead.
Rating: 4 / 5
Although the book was not bad, I don’t think it was what it claimed to be. Overall, the book stays with very simple notes a kid could play. Not much variety though. Maybe ok for kids <12 years old.
Rating: 2 / 5
This product is wonderful. It is everything it says it is and more. I could actually follow and help my son through it. He is 10 years old and wants to be Slash. Great product!!!
Rating: 5 / 5