This book covers a lot of music theory, hand and finger independence. The content is concise and clear, super easy to understand and apply!

This book is known as the Fretboard Bible. It revolves around unique tuning systems. This is a book that, in my opinion, should be owned by all guitar players. This is a book that is primarily based around the CAGED system of playing. It explains why a guitar is tuned a certain way. (Never thought of that, have you?) Keep your wrist loose: When you’re strumming a chord, you want your motions to feel fluid. Not hard and choppy. Keeping a loose wrist will not only help your chord progressions sound smoother, but also minimize any potential for wrist pain after a particularly vigorous session. Like scales, exercises can help you learn more about music theory and improve your speed, strength, and dexterity along the fretboard. Here are some examples of finger exercises that you can practice to help you level up: The more you train your ear to listen to how different a chord sounds when played upwards versus downwards, the easier it will be for you to develop your own internal rhythm and dissect strumming patterns on your own.

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While there are dozens of chords, some of the most memorable songs have been written using only a handful of easy-to-play open chords. Charles Kim is a renowned guitarist and educator and he teaches guitar, songwriting, and music theory at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music. This is a lovely book for beginners. This is quite a popular guitar book which is quite similar to the teaching methods of ‘Guitars for Dummies’ which we read about earlier. It takes you through a wide range of topics, like Parts of a guitar, How to hold a guitar properly, What amp to choose, simple, popular songs to strum, hammer-ons, barre chords, and so on and so forth.

This is a book that has been voted by The Rolling Stones magazine as one of the top 3 guitar books for beginners. There’s a reason for that because every aspect of it has been specially designed and written for absolute beginners. It is also one of the more affordable books out there. It takes you step by step through the basics of rhythm guitar and lead guitar playing. Some professional guitar players and teachers argue for this to be one of the most useful guitar books ever. Zen Guitar not only covers crucial concepts but also motivates you by sprinkling inspiring quotes all throughout the book. If you have read it once, I guarantee that you’re going to want to read it again! This book does not contain any musical notations or chord diagrams. Yes, you read that right! But it is a book with an interesting flair. It is not a technical manual on how to play, but it is more a manual for your mind, body, and soul. It teaches that everyone’s got the music of their own and everyone’s unique. Zen Guitar teaches you music in a very refreshing, redefined way, and has interestingly got a few eastern methods of teaching too!Practicing guitar scales can help you become more familiar with the notes on your fretboard and train your ear to recognize individual notes. You can learn how individual notes sound together and better understand chord composition. Learning to play scales can also help you build speed, dexterity, and finger strength.