Beginner Guitar Lessons for Kids Book: with Online Video and Audio Access

I got this to teach my neices who are 6 and 8. This book breaks down chords into simple 1 or 2 finger versions which is a good place to start learning. There are a variety of children's songs (Itsy Bitsy Spider, Row Row Row your Boat, etc.). I do feel the songs are pretty young and my nieces got bored of them quickly. But by then they had learned the chords so we moved on to a harder song.

Very helpful

Great place to start, shows you finger positions etc.Con it only teaches a few notes in the songsPlus it has a whole list of notes in the back

My son has always loved music, he went through a guitar phase and this book helped him a lot.He's now into the cello so we will be looking into getting him one for that. Overall it was a great purchase.

We have a little one with zero guitar experience, and she really learned a lot from this book.The book is laid out in a way that you are able to slowly make your way without getting too overwhelmed along the way.

Aesthetically this book is well laid out and unless a student is familiar with the songs, then learning to play chords for them is not as motivating. The recordings are helpful but when I'm teaching a lesson, I had to skip over a bunch of songs because they are older nursery rhyme songs which this new generation knows nothing about AND one student is 1st gen American, so this teen grew up with a whole other set of childhood songs. I would have liked to see some note reading and basic tablature in the book but maybe it's just me. Maybe this is good enough for 'most' children, and the one I bought this for, the songs were not as relevant.

I homeschool and got this to start teaching my son guitar. He is easily frustrated so I wanted to get something simple. Large print and detailed explanations make this a good beginner book for kids. There is also an option to go online to their website to watch the chords being played and the songs being strum. The book focuses on four string chords for the first half and then goes to six string cords in the second half. Overall you only really learn four chords and about a dozen songs, but it's a great starting point to build confidence.

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