Idiot's Guides: Playing Guitar by David Hodge

Idiot's Guides: Playing Guitar by David Hodge

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Idiot's Guides: Playing Guitar by David Hodge

Learning to play the guitar has never been easier! Idiot's Guides: Playing Guitar begins with an introduction to different types of guitars and their parts, followed by helpful information on how to choose a guitar. You'll learn how to tune the guitar (supplemented with online audio), how to correctly hold it, how to read tablature, and about basic rhythm. Much of the remainder of the book gives you easy-to-follow instructions on learning chords, and each lesson is followed by a fun practice session and a simple song with which to practice the newly learned chords. In addition to over-the-shoulder color photos showing fingering positions and accompanying two-color chord charts that show exactly what to do, you can hear the chords, exercises, and songs performed from additional content online.

David Hodge began as a sound engineer at the outset of commercial radio in the UK, recording voiceovers for radio and TV commercials, as well as documentaries, animation series, corporate programs, audio books and foreign language versions. He became a founding Director of Silk Sound studios in London where he also produced and directed a number of award-winning radio commercials. He spent six years as Studio Manager for Saunders & Gordon, an audio post-production facility. David was subsequently voice director on Maisy, a BAFTA award-winning animation series for the under-fives and was then heavily involved in the running of Hobsons International, a prominent voiceover and artists' agency.

Stephen Kemble comes from an acting background including extensive work as voiceover. He has worked across a broad range of media; commercial campaigns, narration for documentary programs and current affairs series, corporate work, TV promotions and audio books. He has an MA Voice Studies with distinction from The Central School of Speech and Drama. Since 2006 he has worked with actors in production, teaching 'practical voice' to actors in training and developing his teaching of voice for microphone. In 2011 he became a designated Linklater teacher. Currently he's a text and voice coach at The Royal Shakespeare Company.

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ISBN 13 9781615644179
ISBN 10 1615644172
Title Idiot's Guides: Playing Guitar
Author David Hodge
Series Idiot's Guides
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Alpha Books
Year published 2013-09-03
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.