The Progressive Guitar Method is a series of books designed to take the guitar student from a beginner level through to a professional standard of playing. All books use carefully graded, lesson-by-lesson methods which assume no prior knowledge on your behalf. Within the series, all styles and techniques of guitar playing are covered, including reading music, playing chords and rhythms, lead guitar and fingerpicking patterns.
Progressive Guitar Method: Rhythm assumes you have no prior knowledge of music or playing the guitar. Starting with the different types of guitars available and the different styles of playing you are:
- Introduced to all the important open chord shapes for major, minor, seventh, sixth, major seventh, minor seventh, suspended, diminished and augmented chords
- Over 50 chord progressions, including 12 Bar Blues and Turnaround progressions
- Rhythm patterns using easy read rhythm notation
This book also has special sections on tuning, how to read sheet music and a chord chart. All guitarists should know all of the information contained in these books. This book will provide you with a solid understanding of guitar chords and rhythms. In conjunction with this book you can use other books in the Progressive series to learn about note and tablature reading, music theory, lead guitar playing, fingerpicking, bar chords, slide and classical guitar styles as well as specific styles of music such as Rock, Blues, Country, Jazz, Metal and Funk.
The best and fastest way to learn is to use these books in conjunction with:
- Buying sheet music and song books of your favorite recording artists and learning to play their songs.
- Practicing and playing with other musicians. You will be surprised how good a basic drums/bass/guitar combination can sound even when playing easy music.
- Learning by listening to your favorite recordings.
Also in the early stages it is helpful to have the guidance of an experienced teacher. This will also help you keep to a schedule and obtain weekly goals.
