Hal Leonard

A Beginner's Guide, Featuring Step-By-Step Lessons with Audio, Video, and Popular Songs!

Author: Troy Nelson
Format: Softcover with Media Online
Instrumentation: Guitar TAB

The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practising the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome!

The acoustic guitar book features lessons on: guitar fundamentals, music reading, chords, strumming, arpeggios, time signatures, syncopation, hammer-ons & pull-offs, double stops, harmonics, fingerpicking, alternate picking, and scales & basic theory. Includes guitar parts from 31 songs.

Song List:

• Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You
• Body Like A Back Road
• Brass In Pocket
• Chasing Cars
• Don't Look Back In Anger
• Don't Treat Me Bad
• Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)
• Dust In The Wind
• Eleanor Rigby
• Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
• The Good Stuff
• The House Of The Rising Sun
• I Remember You
• Imagine
• Let There Be Love
• Living In The Moment
• Love Story
• Mine
• More Than A Feeling
• The Reason
• Roundabout
• Save Tonight
• Show Me The Way
• Someone Like You
• Stay With Me
• Tears In Heaven
• Thinking Out Loud
• The Times They Are A-Changin'
• To Be With You
• Unchained Melody