Love Guitar Bitesize – The 10 Beginner's Basics: The real beginner's guide to the 10 beginner basics on guitar

This book is written as an introduction to learning to play the guitar. It can be very overwhelming as a beginner, but in this Love Guitar bitesize edition, we've tried to make it as simple to understand as possible, giving you ten of the most important guitar basics as you start out on your playing journey.

Andy Read has had nearly 20 years experience teaching guitar full time, to all ages. A trained teacher, he has been constantly reviewing and refining this method to make learning this amazing instrument as understandable as possible.

Basic #1 - Finger names/Open string names
basic #2 - 6 must-know chords
basic #3 - Guitar parts
basic #4 - Left hand home position
basic #5 - The rest stroke
basic #6 - TAB
Basic #7 - The chord box
basic #8 - Strumming (using a pick)
basic #9 - Finger picking (RH home position)
basic #10 - Tuning

home page