Mel Bay Children’s Guitar Method Volume 1 Book/CD/DVD Set

Does your child want to learn to play the guitar? Children's Guitar Method is a popular and creative method for teaching guitar to young children. From the beginning, this method integrates chord playing with note reading. The student begins with simplified single-finger chord forms and strums as accompaniment to numerous well-known songs. Note reading is then methodically and carefully introduced. It includes a play-along Recording and a full-length DVD and is written in standard notation.

Contents include:

How to Select a Guitar

The Guitar and Its Parts

How to Hold the Guitar

Strumming the Strings

Left Hand Position

The Left Hand

Two Ways to Tune the Guitar

Tune Up

G Chord-EZ Form

Strumming the G Chord

Brother John, Three Blind Mice, Skip to My Lou, London Bridge

C Chord-EZ Form

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

G7 Chord-EZ Form

C Chord-Add Fourth String

3/4 Time--Cowboy's Song

Pop Goes the Weasel, Down-Up Strum, This Old Man

He's Got the Whole World, Buffalo Gals, Polly Wolly Doodle

The Full C Chord

Holding the Pick

Learning About Notes

E in 3/4

Counting Song, I Love Eating Donuts, Don't Step on Alligators

F is Fred Now Scratch Your Head, Eating Cookies Makes Me Happy

G is Gail, Go Pet a Whale

Won't You Climb the Stairs with Me

Chasing Rabbits, Up We Go in My Balloon, See Saw

B is Benji, Benji Is Eating Candy

Bee Buzz, C is Chris, Bee See C B

Playing Notes on the 2nd String

Happy Sounds, Up & Down

Skipping, Running, Marching, Surprise Song, Space Walk

E and B String

Climbing, Surprise Song, Down in the Valley

Indian Drum, Sailing, Walking Hills, Turkey Waltz

D7 Chord

Oh, My Darling Clementine

Go Tell It on the Mountain, Yankee Doodle

Home on the Range, Amazing Grace

Half Note -- Au Clair De La Lune

Dotted Half Note -- Jacob's Ladder

The Tie -- Red River Valley

Whole Note -- O When the Saints