Do-It-Yourself Guitar

Hal Leonard’s ‘Do-It-Yourself’ series is aimed toward adult learners who want to learn musical skills and guarantee self-teaching success! Each book features lessons with audio and video support that demonstrate key elements. The explanations in each book are thorough and the audio lessons demonstrate concepts using “adult-friendly” music from artists like the Beatles, ZZ Top, Taylor Swift and more!

Do-It-Yourself Guitar provides step-by-step instructions on what you need to know to play guitar. It uses over 90 well-known pop and rock songs as examples and includes over 150 audio tracks for demonstration and play-along, plus video instruction. Topics covered in this book include guitar fundamentals, reading guitar tablature, fret-hand and pick-hand techniques, chords and chord progressions, scales, techniques for acoustic and electric guitar, lead guitar, fingerstyle guitar, and playing styles of famous guitarists.

Musical selections:

• All I Have To Do Is Dream

• All Right Now

• All The Small Things

• The Andy Griffith Show Theme (The Fishin' Hole)

• Aqualung

• Are You Gonna Go My Way

• Baba O'Riley

• Back In Black

• Beds Are Burning

• Birthday

• Body Like A Back Road

• Brown Eyed Girl

• Brown Sugar

• Bye Bye Love

• Can't Buy Me Love

• Clocks

• Come As You Are

• Come Together

• Crazy Train

• Day Tripper

• Don't Fear The Reaper

• Don't Look Back

• Duelin' Banjos

• Dust In The Wind

• Eleanor Rigby

• Every Rose Has Its Thorn

• Everybody Hurts

• Fortunate Son

• Gimme Three Steps

• Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

• Hallelujah

• Happy Birthday To You

• Here I Go Again

• Hey Joe

• Hit Me With Your Best Shot

• I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)

• I Hate Myself For Loving You

• I'm Yours

• Jessica

• Jessie's Girl

• Just Like Heaven

• Knockin' On Heaven's Door

• La Grange

• Lady Madonna

• Landslide

• Last Kiss

• Layla

• Let It Be

• Lightning Crashes

• Message In A Bottle

• More Than A Feeling

• My Girl

• Nobody's Fool

• Nothin' But A Good Time

• Oh, Pretty Woman

• Owner Of A Lonely Heart

• Perfect

• Peter Gunn

• Refugee

• Ring Of Fire

• Rock And Roll All Nite

• Rock Of Ages

• Rock You Like A Hurricane

• Rolling In The Deep

• Rosanna

• Runnin' Down A Dream

• Silent Lucidity

• Smoke On The Water

• Space Oddity

• SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song

• Star Wars (Main Theme)

• Start Me Up

• Sultans Of Swing

• Summer Of '69

• Sweet Child O' Mine

• Sweet Home Chicago

• That'll Be The Day

• Thinking Out Loud

• 3 AM

• Three Little Birds

• T.N.T.

• Toes

• 25 Or 6 To 4

• Wagon Wheel

• Walk Don't Run

• Walk This Way

• Wanted Dead Or Alive

• When The Children Cry

• Wonderful Tonight

• Wonderwall

• Working For The Weekend

• Yellow Submarine

• You've Got A Friend