Anybody Ever Learn Guitar With A Book Like This?

[axecollector]

I know I did!

[Kap'n]

I'm sure your parents bought you a Twin to go with that Mustang, too.

[BassmanTweed]

I'm sure your parents bought you a Twin to go with that Mustang, too.

That is the perfect living room, gather round the fireplace amplifier.

[NeoFauve]

Check out mom's gams.


I'd need a book to operate the JM on the cover.

[cb06stang]

I did, man I totally forgot about that book.
Now you've got me wondering if I've got it stashed up in the attic somewhere.
Cool.....

[Kap'n]

I learned out of this book



and this book



Somebody scratched out the correct fingering for a G chord (M, R, P) and entered (I, M, R).

To this day, I still play the chord wrong, and have to do major contortions to change to either a 7, or to add the sus4.

[Gravity Jim]

Holy Parma, Kap'n, I had that same book! (The red cover... the othe rone didn't show up in my browser for some reason.)

[juniorspecial]

I had the Joe Fava books.

[Kap'n]

Holy Parma, Kap'n, I had that same book! (The red cover... the othe rone didn't show up in my browser for some reason.)

Top one is the red Guitar Chords book, the bottom is the red "Guitar Primer." That and a cheap nylon string were hand-me-down's from my brother's ex-girlfriend's parents. Still got the books, had to give back the guitar.

[NeoFauve]

I had this one.
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Whether I "learned" is very much in quesion.

[Cogs]

This 'un is still a favorite of mine:

I've never made it all the way through but I have learned a bunch of cool chords from it.
I want to get book #2.

[mmcquain]

This 'un is still a favorite of mine:

I've never made it all the way through but I have learned a bunch of cool chords from it. I want to get book #2.

Ah yes, Mickey Baker... you're right - there are some great chords (and theory) in that book. I still have it somewhere upstairs at home. Of course, I got sidetracked (spelled "stuck" ) on minor blues pentatonic runs and jamming with my Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and Allman Brothers LPs so I never finished the book either!

[riverafenders]

Speaking of guitar books, check out this video, hilarious http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5OHPgne1S4

[cooltone]

Ah yes, Mickey Baker... you're right - there are some great chords (and theory) in that book. I still have it somewhere upstairs at home. Of course, I got sidetracked (spelled "stuck" ) on minor blues pentatonic runs and jamming with my Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and Allman Brothers LPs so I never finished the book either!

I have that book, too!! Lot's of chord substitution lessons. My book still has the $2.95 price tag from when I bought it in 1977 or '78.

[refin]

I still occasionally teach out of Mel Bay Book 1....