First 15 Lessons Electric Guitar

Fast-paced learning for your first year of instruction!

The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within.

This book is packed with must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, and it includes a free online tuner and metronome!

The electric guitar book features lessons on: guitar fundamentals, music reading, chords, strumming, arpeggios, syncopation, hammer-ons & pull-offs, slides, string bending & vibrato, double stops, harmonics, alternate picking, palm muting and scales & basic theory. The musical examples used to teach these concepts include guitar parts from 33 well-known songs to make learning fun and relavant!

Example songs include:

• Ain't No Sunshine
• All Along The Watchtower
• American Pie
• Baby Hold On
• Barracuda
• Behind Blue Eyes
• Breaking The Law
• Brown Eyed Girl
• Carry On Wayward Son
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
• Eight Days A Week
• Flake
• Hit Me With Your Best Shot
• I Can't Explain
• James Bond Theme
• Jessie's Girl
• Layla
• Learn To Fly
• Looks That Kill
• Rock You Like A Hurricane
• Runnin' Down A Dream
• Simple Man
• Smells Like Teen Spirit
• Smoke On The Water
• Stray Cat Strut
• Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
• The Truth
• Under The Bridge
• Walk Don't Run
• When I Come Around
• Wonderful Tonight
• You Really Got Me