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"Great Guitar Method for Young Children", I have been teaching classroom music for over 30 years. I also teach guitar. I was always afraid to begin young children on guitar, because the coordination was too difficult for them. I discovered The Kid's Guitar Course, Book 1 and Book 2 a few years ago. It is kid friendly. It has only a little music on each page, has fun pictures and clear explanations. A few years ago, I had several parents approach me to teach a guitar class to second graders. I have been using this book with the matching course book for about 5 years. The children love the book and are very excited as they advance through the pages. I see the advantage of 3 string chords, as well. The children learn to keep strumming as they change chords, rather than stopping to figure out how to make the chord. They also learn how to play simple melodies on the first three strings. The note speller is a great reinforcement of what they are learning in the course book. I highly recommend this guitar course to use for any beginning guitarist up through 10 years old.

"Decent, not great", I don't think this book is quite as great as some other reviews have made it out to be, but it has been better for my couple of younger students than the Mel Bay book. The smaller, easier 3 string chord forms are good for young kids that don't have hands big or strong enough to play full 5 and 6 string chords. Towards the end there is a good mixture of single notes and chords which is nice. The variety of songs do a decent job of teaching about different rhythms and rests. However, I'm not crazy about the lyrical element, they have not helped at all, especially since the written melody for guitar doesn't usually match up with the traditional melody that would go with the lyrics used from well known kids songs. Still glad I chose to get a couple copies of this.

"One of the Best Methods for the Early Beginner", This is one of THE BEST methods out there for the young guitar student learning to play pick style guitar. The book and enhanced C.D. are excellent instructional tools. I've used this book for a few years in private instruction and just started using it in my young beginners group guitar class with great success in both areas.

The text starts with three-string chords and progresses through various rhythmic combinations (though never using eighth notes) with the C,G,G7, and D7 chords. Along the way the student will play some original and folk songs (i.e. three blind mice, etc). The melodies are provided on the accompanying C.D. and are quite easy to pick out.

The second half of the book focuses on learning to read standard notation. (NOTE: there is not TAB) The text covers notes through the first three strings. As with the chord section the child will play various original melodies as well as famous classical and folk melodies (i.e. Ode to Joy, Jingle Bells, etc). In this section the student will play the chords they have learned previously along with the notes they are learning.

If you are using this book in private or group lessons you may want to introduce standard note reading alongside the introduction of chords, instead of moving sequentially through the book. As stated earlier there is NO TAB in this book which may turn some teachers off. After completing this book the student would understand the material roughly through the first half of Book 1 of either the Hal Leonard or Mel Bay Guitar Methods.

If you are looking for a method for classical guitar for the young this is NOT for you! I would highly recommend getting Classical Guitar for the Young by Jay Traylor. An even better book though difficult to get in the U.S. is The Guitarist's Way by British guitarists Peter Nuttall & John Whitworth.

"Great for young kids. Best parts are the three-string chords. ", After reading the positive reviews on this book, I ordered it to help me get my kids (8 and 11) started on guitar. They are learning on a steel string acoustic, so they are both still working on properly fretting, but this method is a great way to get kids started. I had never before seen the three-string chords presented, and these are great. Three of the most commonly used chords can be played by fretting only one string! Once the kids learn a few of these, there are many songs they can play along with, even outside this book, and that kind of positive result will keep them interested. Drawbacks? This book teaches chords before playing any individual notes, which is like a cart before a horse. I'm jumping around in the book to introduce some single notes first. Also, I wish the songs for them to strum chords to also showed a melody, to allow me to play along and also give them more basic melodies to play. The CD, however, does play along with them, so that part isn't too bad. I'd buy again for any student under about 10-12.

"This is a great series!", I've been teaching guitar for the past two years, and with my young students (5 to 11 yrs old) this is a highly effective series. I recently got the flash cards to use as a teaching aid, and the results were immediate even with my most challenging students. The Kids Guitar series has a clear focus on both music theory and guitar technique. It is fun and engaging for the students, and builds gradually through a series of exercises until the student is comfortable playing all six strings in the first position using standard music notation (not tabs). My only wish is that they had a book three.

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"Great for raw beginners.", The Alfred's Kid's Guitar Course 1 is fantastically illustrated and provides very clear descriptions of how to hold a guitar, a plectrum, how to strum and how to tune. It uses colorful cartoon characters on each page, making the usually dry information about notation and tab reading very entertaining. I disagree with the habit that a lot of these basic level books have of reducing the chords to one finger versions. I will use these to get students initially enthused about playing but i call them "cheat C" and so on. In my experience kids can learn the simple smaller chords like D, A and E and be quickly playing songs. The book is well written overall and combines chord playing and note picking in a fun, engaging manner.

"A great starter book", I'm not much of a guitar player; I know just enough to fiddle, and wanted to give my 8-year old some experience without paying for lessons to see if the interest in the instrument was actually there first. I'm amazed at how quickly one is able to pick things up with this book; it is clear and easy to use and, importantly, lets kids play "real" songs that build on each other so they can have a good sense of success as they progress through the book. The CD that comes with it is a good aid as well.

"Kid's Guitar Course - Book 1", My 7-yr old granddaughter wanted a guitar for Christmas, so of course we needed instructions - this is the perfect book. She is able to read most of the instructions herself, and those that she can't are readily understandable by the grownups!

"The best book out there for the 5-9 age group.", Up until now there has been a lack of guitar instruction books for children ages 5 to 9. Mel Bay's Children's Guitar Method is too difficult. Hal Leonard's Guitar Method is really for kids 12 and older as is Belwin's 21st Century Guitar Method. This book is perfect for the very young and I highly recommend using a 1/2 size guitar.

The book has: full color graphics (in book 1 only), adorably cute pictures of funny animals, full color photos of a hand fingering the notes or chord, the letter of the note written on top the note itself to help in sight reading, and plenty of helpful tips as you go along.

The enhanced CD is amazing and is a real innovation. It has software that plays a song at whatever tempo is easiest for you to play along with. The song or exercise you're working on can be sped up or slowed down. You can change instrumentation so its bass and drums only with you adding your guitar part. The one disappointment is the the software doesn't run on Mac OSX, only Mac OS9. It runs fine on a PC with a soundcard. All the book's examples are on the CD too.

The strums are all quarter notes with only one strum per beat, no hard 8th note down/up strumming like the Mel Bay's Children's Guitar Method that has you play syncopated rhythms throughout. The note reading is easy and the strums are incorporated into the note reading. The notes don't get any harder than simple quarter notes (in book 1).

And the flash cards you can purchase seperately are a great tool for judging how well the student is doing learning their notes. All around a perfectly conceived book for the 5 to 9 age bracket.



"Great for small kids", This book gets the kids playing right away with no time wasted on theory that a small child could not comprehend. The CD makes the playing more fun and feel more "grown-up". Nice book! Both the 7 year old and 5 year old are enjoying using it.