Your Next Skill: Playing the Acoustic Guitar
Find resources--books, in-person lessons, and a streaming video--which may help you learn to play the acoustic guitar.
How to Play Guitar: Essential Skills
Expert advice on chords, scales, notes and techniques. This book contains everything the new or intermediate guitar player (acoustic or electric) needs to know to really get to grips with making music on this most popular of instruments. This no-nonsense, easy to carry, concealed spiral book will fit into a gig bag, flight case or hand bag with the minimum of fuss.
Format: Book - 2016
Easy Guitar: covers all the basics a beginner needs to know
Format: Streaming video (via Libby/Overdrive)
- Release date: August 18, 2006
- Duration: 00:25:38
- Number of parts: 1
Let Easy Guitar get you started on your musical career! Even with zero experience, you'll be playing & singing House of the Rising Sun and more at the end of your studio sessions. Whether you want to jam in a band, or just chill with your friends, Easy Guitar will teach you the skills you need to play like the pros. Get maximum support as you work on your guitar techniques. A personal tutor shows you how to play it right, whether acoustic or electric. The demos give you easy-to-follow, clear, close-up views to make sure you're learning the correct way to form chords, pick, and strum. Plus, written insets let you learn by ear and learn to read music at the same time. From stringing and alternate tunings to effects and amps, you can quickly go from beginner to intermediate level.
Complete Beginners Chords for Guitar
Chords are one of the most useful aspects of music to learn about. A handy resource for complete beginners, this book of guitar chords covers only the basic chords and keys, including majors, minors and sevenths. Keeping things clear and simple, the book also includes concise explanations and examples of the chords used in practice. Chords are written in both standard and TAB notation, and include links to flametreemusic.com, an audio library of chords and scales. Another title in the hugely popular Pick up & Play series with audio and Internet links.
Format: Book - 2019
Fat Cat Music & Sound
112 E Mulberry St
Goldsboro, NC 27530
Music Lessons
You’ve got the talent. Now get the guidance.
We offer music lessons at both our Goldsboro and our Wilson locations. Our stable of seasoned musicians and instructors will work with you, no matter your skill level, to unleash your music.
We offer lessons for acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, drums, mandolin and ukulele. Lessons are 1-on-1 in dedicated classrooms and tailored for your skill level and your goals. Lessons are offered weekly for $25 per half-hour lesson.
Lessons are offered in the afternoons until closing. Contact us to get started and we’ll find a time that works for you.
How to Read Music: Essential Skills
Offers the essentials you need to know, explaining pitch, the treble clef, the bass clef, rhythm, accidentals, key signatures and time signatures. You can then practise what you have learned with the 'Play Along' sections containing simple, well-known examples of music. It comes with helpful diagrams, clear accessible text. The perfect companion to the other titles in the Pick Up & Play series (Play the Guitar, Play the Piano, Guitar Chords, Piano Chords), this is the ideal guide for those, of any age, who may enjoy playing instruments, but have not yet mastered how to read music from the page. Supported online by the Flame Tree Music website. Now you can see the chord, then reach for your phone and hear the chord or scale. Using any free QR code reader app (Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows) a website opens automatically and you can listen to the chord as a strum, an arpeggio (each note played separately) and hear it as a piano chord.
Format: Book - 2016