Absolute Beginners Book 1

Based on the instructional video of the same name, this series teaches the complete novice everything they need to know to start playing right away. The music lover who has never even held a guitar will be playing easy songs immediately. Book 2 is the perfect follow-up to Guitar for the Absolute Beginner, Book 1. This easy, friendly method covers more challenging chords and strums, the basic principles of blues and rock improvisation, classic fingerstyle patterns, and melody playing. Guitar for the Absolute Beginner, Book 2 will prepare you for continued study in whatever style of music you love most. Audio tracks that demonstrate every example and provide play-along opportunities are included and can be downloaded or streamed online. / Guitare

Build on your basic keyboard skills using CD demonstration tracks and full-length accompaniments that let you play with professional backing musicians. All the songs and exercises are arranged in both treble and bass clefs for beginner keyboardists and pianists. Ideal for continuation of the lessons in Book One. / Clavier

The Absolute Beginners Irish Tenor Banjo book tells you everything you need to know about playing this unique instrument from the very first moment you pick it up. Featuring helpful and practical guides to everything from holding your Tenor Banjo to playing your first tunes, this book and accompanying download card will take you through your beginning stages and beyond.Beginning with a short history of the instrument, the book takes you through the anatomy of a Tenor Banjo, how it's tuned and how to hold it, before getting you playing and picking. The book continues by teaching you the D Major scale and basic rhythm, then moves on to your first tunes. The inclusion of real songs (in notation and tablature) from the very beginning helps you to put what the theoretical concepts that you've learned into context, developing your musicality as well as your knowledge. As you are introduced to more strings, more scales and more tunes, you will see how Tenor Banjo players use ornamentation to embellish their playing and make it more musical and more fun.With helpful, detailed explanations of each concept, clear pictures throughout and short musical passages transcribed in standard notation and tablature, the Absolute Beginners Irish Tenor Banjo tutorial book will teach you the basics and get you playing some really fun tunes at the same time. The unique download card that accompanies this book features over 60 demonstrations of each tune recorded by the author to help you pick and pluck your way through every note. It's simple to use, all you have to do is download each track to your computer and listen as you go through.If you have always wanted to learn Irish Tenor Banjo but have never been able to find a comprehensive method, or you've just discovered its fantastically distinctive sound, this edition of the Absolute Beginners series is for you. With authoritative guidance and a convenient download card, this tuition book is perfect for any aspiring Tenor Banjo player. / Banjo

Absolute Beginners: Acoustic Guitar is the complete guide to playing the Acoustic Guitar from the first time you pick it up all the way to playing your first songs along with backing tracks. With clear images, easy-to-understand text and demonstrations of every exercise on an Audio Download, this book is the easiest way to learn the techniques that are essential to learning to play the Acoustic Guitar.Absolute Beginners: Acoustic Guitar opens with a clear introduction to the parts of the Guitar, how to choose one and the different types. After this, you'll learn the differences between playing with a plectrum or your fingers, you'll tune up then you'll be ready to play! A guide to your first chords and strumming will get you making music, before you learn more chords, different strumming patterns and some scales. Throughout this, the included Audio Download allows you to hear each exercise as it should sound, ensuring you play everything correctly and train your ear at the same time.As you learn fingerpicking, the twelve-bar blues, some tunes and other techniques, you'll find you've gone from knowing nothing about the Guitar to being able to play songs, chords and even with others. The Audio Download also features professionally-recorded backing tracks for the songs so that you can play along and sound great. The book also features a handy guide to the notes of the neck and a chord reference sheet. If you're an Absolute Beginner with no knowledge of how to play the Acoustic Guitar, this book will guide you on this journey with pictures, an audio download, and practical advice from expert author David Harrison. The Absolute Beginners series has taught millions to play from novice to confident player over the years. Now it's your turn! / Guitare

This Omnibus Edition contains the complete Absolute Beginners Bass course in one complete and convenient package! The Absolute Beginners method has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your Bass Guitar. This edition also features a unique download card with professional demonstration and accompaniment tracks, allowing you to start playing music right away.In one great book you'll get:A look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanationsPractical advice and tips covering everything you need to know about setting up, playing and maintenanceAudio tracks on the accompanying download card show you how things should soundFull-length accompaniment tracks to play along with!This complete Omnibus Edition of Absolute Beginners Bass Guitar contains possibly all the information and practical guidance you'll need to learn the very basics of the Bass, right up to playing your first tunes. Written by established bassist and teacher Phil Mulford, you will be introduced to the parts of the Bass Guitar, tuning and how to hold it, before rapidly learning your first notes, grooves, bass lines and, by the end of book 2, riffs, slapping funk and a full song!If you are looking for an 'owner's manual' approach to learning to play the Bass Guitar that makes it easier than ever before, look no further than this collated edition of Absolute Beginners, now featuring a practical download card. / Guitare Basse

Written by established educator David Harrison, The Complete Ukulele Player is the most in-depth and comprehensive introduction to playing this fantastic instrument. Taking you from being an absolute beginner to playing scales, harmony and your first tunes, this is the essential volume for anyone interested in learning the Ukulele.If you have no prior experience with musical instruments, or you do, but not on the Ukulele, then The Complete Ukulele Player is the ideal book for you. With comprehensive advice, clear diagrams, numerous photographs and invaluable tips, this book will take you from not even knowing how to hold the Ukulele to feeling right at home. The Complete Ukulele Player begins your journey with an introduction, a short history of the instrument and how to choose one. When you've got your first Ukulele, you'll find out the anatomy of the instrument, which accessories you might need, how to hold it and how to tune it. After you've mastered the practicalities, it'll be time to make music! This tuition book begins by using easy 3-chord songs like Dylan's Blowin' In The Wind, Love Me Do by The Beatles, before moving on to songs with diminished chords like Patsy Cline's Crazy, transposition with Jambalaya and more advanced strumming techniques with Norwegian Wood. The benefit of using popular songs in this way is to enhance musicality at the same time as teaching theoretical concepts. It's easy to pick up a Ukulele and strum a few chords, but with The Complete Ukulele Player chords and harmony are explored in much more depth and detail than in other books. Different chord voicings and techniques are explained and made clear in relation to songs, making learning easier and more enjoyable. Van Morrison's Brown-Eyed Girl is used as an introduction to tablature, and by the end of the book you'll have mastered notes, scales, basic fingerpicking, palm muting, different strumming patterns and more advanced chords.A final truly unique addition to The Complete Ukulele Player is the accompanying download card, giving you access to over a hundred studio-quality demonstration and backing tracks, helping you learn by listening and ear-training. The three hours of audio comprises basically everything that you would need to hear from the book itself, in easy to use tracks that you can download to your computer.So if you're new to the Ukulele and you are looking for a place to start, look no further than The Complete Ukulele Player. Featuring all the essential theoretical knowledge you will need, along with famous and popular tunes to play, this is the ideal beginning tuition book that will put the inimitable Ukulele at your fingertips. If you are looking for even more tunes to play with your newly-learned skills, check out The Complete Ukulele Player Songbook 1 and Songbook 2. These songbooks each contain 16 favourite tunes in the same format as this tuition book, making them the perfect companion for budding Uke players. / Ukulélé

This amazing Absolute Beginners tutorial pack contains books 1 and 2 from the series plus the songbook and fingering charts all in one volume, with 2 CDs of professional backing tracks and a bonus DVD to accompany the first tutor book. / Guitare

The must-have repertoire book of 34 classic hits specially arranged using all the chords you learned in Absolute Beginners: Guitar Books 1 and 2 . Make your new chord skills come alive by playing these great hits with a full accompaniment - each song comes complete with professional-quality 'soundalike' backing tracks on the accompanying CDs! / Paroles Et Accords

Absolute Beginners: Flute uses Step-by-step pictures to take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backing track! Absolute beginners has been designed to tell you everything youneed to know from the first time you play your Flute.In one great book you get:A look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanationsPractical advice and tips covering everythingyou need to know to get you playing fast!CD audio tracks to show you how things should sound plus...Full-length accompaniment tracks to play along withAn 'owner's manual' approach to your Flutethat makes learning easier than ever before!