Here's the one we've all been waiting for! Everyone at Guitar Noise has known for over ten years that David Hodge is one of the best teachers of guitar. His lessons have been by more than a million people all over the world and have helped guitarists of all levels.
If you've ever wanted to have a one-on-one lesson with David, we can now offer you the next-best thing: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Guitar
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Art of Songwriting
Now newbie songwriters can learn the craft and sing their own praises online. Beginning songwriters can hit the right note by starting out with the basics in this guide, including: How to create melodies, How to create many different harmonies, Techniques using deliberate rhythm and stylistic changes, How to enable one's songwriting to grow and evolve, How to deal with songwriter's block, The best places to upload one's work for maximum exposure and opportunities.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Guitar
This book is a series of lessons designed to walk you step by step from the first elementary guitar strumming and chords through to intermediate techniques that will make you sound like you've been playing most of your life. You also get a play-along CD featuring Nick Torres singing some great songs that have been covered by Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, and many other great guitarists.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Rock Guitar
An excellent jump-start for the beginning guitarist who wants to get up to speed quickly playing rock music! The whole focus of this book, from the easiest exercises up through the intermediate ones, is on the awareness and touch and technique necessary to play the electric guitar. From power chords to Keith Richards' style of playing on open tuning, you'll find it here!
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Bass Guitar
Whether readers have just picked up the bass or are learning to improve their technique, this book provides a strong foundation of all the bass basics. Learn how to create bass lines instead of simply copying them and practice your skills with the many songs and exercises on the accompanying CD.
Testimonials
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"I am a huge fan of your guitar lessons and greatly appreciate the work you put into them. There are honestly no better lessons for beginner guitarist."
"You have single-handedly turned me into an aspiring guitarist. I have been trying to learn to play on and off for a while, until I found Guitar Noise. The articles and lessons were easy to comprehend and encouraged me to keep at it. Now I am moving on to writing my own pieces, and I have you to thank. You have forever changed my life for the better. Thank you."
from Reviews of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Bass Guitar":
"Hodge writes in an easy-to-understand, down-to-earth manner, and it's almost like having an experienced teacher there with you."
"Mr. Hodge anticipates questions very well, and his conversational writing style translates superbly to learning an instrument."
from Reviews of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Rock Guitar":
"I haven't made it all the way through the book yet, but the material I have been through is excellent. In my opinion, this book is a very nice balance between readability, music theory, and guitar technique."
"I have been a fan of David Hodge for sometime now after seeing one of his lessons on guitar noise, a website I cannot speak highly enough of. David's way of teaching is very simple and effective. When I found out he was doing a book it was a must have. The book leads you through chord progressions, time signatures, rests, string bends, double stops, triplets, scales and modes to name but a few."