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Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1 is designed for absolute beginners, to intermediate guitar players.

Beginners will find it easy to get started with MGCS1 ; the carefully graded chord and rhythm exercises build finger strength and timing understanding in a clear step-by-step manner. Intermediate players will benefit from refining their rhythm techniques, exploring new strumming patterns, and learning arpeggio styles. MGCS1 provides a structured pathway, road tested and proven by years of good results from students and teachers alike.

Electric Guitar Solo Style is designed for beginner to intermediate electric guitar players who already have the basics of guitar technique under control. Players should be comfortable with some single-note picking with simple rhythms. It’s best suited for players over the age of 12, or adults with foundational guitar/music skills.

No, Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1 is designed to be usable for complete beginners, as well as players with some knowledge and ability who realize their skills will benefit from some structured work. Whilst some familiarity with basic guitar handling and tuning is beneficial, MGCS1 is an excellent starter text for all guitar beginners over 12 years of age.

Once you’re 10-15 pages into Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1, you’ll be ready to start Electric Guitar Solo Style 1

Most beginner guitar books start students off with the challenging task of learning to read music notation.  Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1concentrates on the importance of chords, strumming patterns and rhythm guitar; a core job for guitar that is often overlooked, under-valued, or too simplified in beginner resources. MGCS1 combines must-know chord forms with practical rhythm exercises to develop and consolidate your right-left coordination. This is the most important thing that needs to happen for beginners and leads to being able to learn solo guitar techniques.  MGCS1’s structured approach has provided this essential grounding for thousands of aspiring players. Most importantly, it prepares students to be able to play whole, recognizable songs, within the first 20 pages.

Yes, that’s one of the big things it will do for you. The book includes numerous exercises specifically designed to improve your chord transitions whilst being able to maintain a steady rhythm. This applies equally to finger-style picking patterns as well as rhythm strumming.

The Electric Guitar Solo Style books are structured differently to other commercially available titles. Unlike other Lead Guitar guides that focus mostly on just scales and connecting patterns across the fretboard, EGSSintegrates all techniques with full music examples that demonstrate how those techniques create music. The presentation of bending techniques, and the accompanying strength-building cliche exercises are unique to Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 and 2. This course will develop your ability to a higher level, and give you a clearer view of style than other similar looking books provide.

Electric Guitar Solo Style 1 develops your understanding of today’s electric guitar styles, and the history of the instrument, by tracing the Blues based development of it’s playing style from the earliest years through to the 21st century. In turn, these techniques evolved into the popular R’n’B / Rock sounds of the instrument’s heyday, leading to today’s blended style. The Blues came first and gave the electric guitar it’s core techniques that form the foundations of a wide range of modern popular music.