Getting Started With Guitar

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This songbook is a bit of a renegade project, but brilliant. It errs on the side of inclusiveness, as opposed to detail, but hey, there’s a TON of music in there.

Look through it and you are GUARANTEED to find a ton of songs you know, whether they be from your summer camp days, your glory days, your family and cultural traditions, your midlife crisis, or your personal renaissance.

It’s a ton of fun!

I strongly believe in working on your guitar skills via songs that you know – as it provides a framework against which to develop your new skills – one that is fun, familiar, and has the delightful side effect of arming you with a bunch of actual songs that you can play and enjoy.

Rise Up Singing has a distinct and slightly quirky system of notating chords and song structure, but once you crack it, you are good to go with a bazillion songs (well, 1,200, to be precise).

I’ll help you crack it. Click this link for a free video lesson to get you started!

Just think: even if you only know ten percent of the songs in the book, that gives you ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY songs to work on. That oughtta keep you busy and happy for a while.

It’s quite the resource, quite the value. In my house, it’s a must-have reference book, on the shelf next to Roget’s Thesaurus, the Dictionary and Mark Bittman’s cookbooks.

I recommend it to all my students, and look at them askance if they don’t spring for it.

A music-lover’s must-have, in my humble opinion.

In fact, when I taught guitar for many years at the local college, Rise Up Singing was the required text.

Ready to get started with your own copy? Check it out right here, at Amazon.com.

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