Music Banter - View Single Post - Best book for beginners for learning how to play acoustic guitar?

duga · 03-20-2013, 10:43 PM

There are plenty of resources online these days for free. No need to buy a book at all. Back in the day I bought "Guitar for Dummies" and it actually helped quite a bit. It taught me all the basic chords...but honestly you don't need that. Just go look up a few beginner's tutorials and learn all the key open chords. Once you can go from G to D or any other chord without any huge issues, you can probably move on to learning some actual songs.

First song I learned was kumbaya. Seriously. Now I can play most things I put my mind to. Just stick with it.

03-20-2013, 10:43 PM	#4 (permalink)
duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	There are plenty of resources online these days for free. No need to buy a book at all. Back in the day I bought "Guitar for Dummies" and it actually helped quite a bit. It taught me all the basic chords...but honestly you don't need that. Just go look up a few beginner's tutorials and learn all the key open chords. Once you can go from G to D or any other chord without any huge issues, you can probably move on to learning some actual songs. First song I learned was kumbaya. Seriously. Now I can play most things I put my mind to. Just stick with it. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...