The First 100 Guitar Exercises for Beginners: Beginner Exercises for Guitar that Improve Technique and Accelerate Development (Beginner Guitar Books) Paperback – Illustrated, March 15, 2019

I wish I had this book when I was 16.I've played guitar now for several years, mostly as a hobby. As is true of most amateur guitar enthusiasts, I spent most of my time messing around, creating strange sounds and playing around with tabs of my favorite songs that I found online. I knew basic barre chords and a few open chords, and that was about it.This book would have helped me a lot in those early days. Alexander works you through all of the basics, from how to hold the guitar to how to hold the pick, how to ensure that your right and left hands are in harmony, how to play major scales, how to strum, how to play slides, bends, and do a few other tricks. These are all the basic elements of guitar playing, yet here they are explained in such simplicity and clarity that anybody could understand them.The exercises work wonders, too. I can finally do some basic fingerstyle patterns, and I now know the appropriate place to put my right hand for effective palm muting.I can't think of any drawback to this method. There are no corny songs to play, and everything is presented at a very slow, deliberate pace.If I had this book when I was 16, I'd be much better than I am today.

I had always had trouble with movement/playing of my Left Hand, until I started using this book. I had decided several times that guitar must just not be for me, that my hands must be too small, but I didn't want to give up. Other folks with small hands learn to play, so I kept working at it, miserably. This book showed me things expensive guitar teachers never did. Learning how to move the left hand, and how to anticipate and place left hand fingers as I played opened up my world. I'm grateful.

Good resource for learning how to play an instrument

I don't have any complaints about the book. I received one book from Fundamental Changes as a gift, and I am very pleased with the contents and supporting material. I thought this book (ordered from Amazon) might be a little more advanced. I plan to purchase additional books from the Fundamental Changes series. I probably should have looked at a sample of the book before purchasing.

I read music, having studied piano, clarinet and voice. Explains TAB as well as classical treble clef and chord charting notations. I have wanted to learn guitar, and this book has a concentrated introduction to music theory and pedagogy (recommended fingerings, strumming/picking, many recommended exercises to learn major/minor scales and jazz scales for improvising). Great resource for improving technique in many chapters dedicated to specific needs to play cleanly and in tune. Recommend for proficient musicians wanting to expand their knowledge to a new instrument or clean up skills by breaking down the elements found in music compositions.

Might be a good tool for those with some experience, but wouldn't say it's for beginners. Text-heavy instruction and not enough visual aides. Keeping for later/avoid has led of return.

When starting out learning how to play guitar......what to do and how to do it are paramount. This book was of great help in building a practice routine. Not only the what but the how as well. You or someone you know is getting into guitar....this book isn't expensive it's priceless. Buy it. NOW

Great beginner book for everyone at any age. Starts with basics of how to practice to the fundamentals leading to minor and major scales. As book continues each exercise applies to how it would look in Guitar Tab so it can be read and understood as one would advance. The book is not meant to be read and understood in a day, but as a guide introducing everyone to a life long journey into guitar.