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02-18-2011, 02:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Grand Rapids, MI | | | Just bought my little sister a Guitar..
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A Squire and a little 15wt amp. Cheap, but I know she'll like it. Any books anyone would recommend buying her to help her play?
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02-18-2011, 02:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | Get her a chord chart and a beginner's guitar lesson book?
Sorry, I dont have any specifics here.
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02-18-2011, 02:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Grand Rapids, MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MatticusMania  Get her a chord chart and a beginner's guitar lesson book?
Sorry, I dont have any specifics here. | Lol. It's all good. That's kinda what I was thinking. ^_^
I'm excited for her. Next I have to buy my daughter one, but her birthday isn't until October and she's going to be 4, so we may wait another year. 
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02-18-2011, 02:45 PM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | Nice! yep - get a her a really basic chord chart so she can hear herself play something that sounds almost like music. beginners "how to" books are great but I think many people get turned off by playing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" 100X
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02-18-2011, 02:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | I could see a 4 year old not being all that interested in a guitar, though I know there are some who would be quite enthused! For some kids, their interests wander from one thing to the next and sometimes back again, so theres nothing wrong with buying low end gear. Heck, theyre kids, they could completely trash it for all you know.
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02-18-2011, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Mikaela Ellinger A Squire and a little 15wt amp. Cheap, but I know she'll like it. Any books anyone would recommend buying her to help her play? |
How old is your little sister? And are formal music skills (basic reading in standard notation) important?
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02-18-2011, 02:49 PM
| | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | What I did with my son when he was 4 - he couldn't play his guitar and his attention span was like 2 mins max, so I ended up tuning the guitar to an open E, then just had him strum, then barre it across the frets, before long he was rocking.
If I had just left it at learning notes, he would have walked away from itfast
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02-18-2011, 04:44 PM
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02-18-2011, 05:06 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | | Get Guitar Hero for the XBOX so she can practice.
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02-18-2011, 05:43 PM
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02-18-2011, 06:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Machias/Bangor, Maine | | | Those big chord chart posters are awesome, some more so then others. Some give practice tips and some even come with a dvd.
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02-18-2011, 07:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbus, OH | | | have her learn the pentatonic scales earlier, rather than later.
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02-18-2011, 07:50 PM
| | | | Hal Leonard may or may not still have a "FastTrack" version of their guitar method. I used it and really liked it. It was only like $7-8 but had the backing tracks on CD and went through different styles and everything very quickly. It even had pretty legit songs at the end that went through different lead/rhythm parts and chords. It wasn't your typical twinkle twinkle type book.
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02-19-2011, 01:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | There's lots of links and some videos here...
How to play guitar. http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&so...=Google+Search
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02-19-2011, 01:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Close enough to San Fran | | | I say teach her the Iron Man riff(duh, duh, duh duh duh! duhnuhnuhnuhnuh duh duh nuh nuh!) I've taught this to a few kids and they all thought it was super cool because it was a "real" song!
Or you could try some Yngwie, either she learns it and becomes a guitar god, or she loses all interest completely. Risky but cuts to the chase...
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02-19-2011, 02:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana | | | You could also sit down, and play with her. That helps alot. Lessons too, but make sure she gets a great teacher. |
02-19-2011, 06:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Minnesota | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MJ5150 Get Guitar Hero for the XBOX so she can practice.
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02-19-2011, 07:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Minnesota | | | When my brother and I started playing back in the late 70's Mel Bay was a big name in learning guitar. |
02-19-2011, 12:37 PM
|  | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | Beatles fake book. Hal Leonard has a great one with 200 songs and there is no better book for learning guitar (chord boxes and songs you'll love playing, what more do you need?).
Edit: Some of the chord voices are wonky and there's also the problem of weird 2/4 measures stuck in at random in john's stuff but still a good choice.
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02-19-2011, 12:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | I'd look for a video! Much more engaging than a book. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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