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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Learn to Play Guitar about Provides with the genre: Children's Books, Arts, Music & Photography?
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conversations.value: -- Provides solid technical background on acoustic, electric and bass guitar
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conversations.value: What is the first three paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Learn to Play Guitar
  Music theory is reinforced by musical pieces in various styles, which should make the learning process more practical and enjoyable. The pieces are designed for beginners but can be adapted by more experienced players by making their own melodies and / or improvising using the scales.
  Each audio track has two versions, a demo track to show how the piece should sound, followed by a backing track where the guitar has been removed for you to play over.
  When sitting to play the guitar you should be upright with the guitar upright on your lap and its neck tilted upward slightly. It can help to have the guitar as balanced on the lap as you can, as this leaves the hands free to play it rather than have to hold it upright too.
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conversations.value: What is five more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: You could make up your own strumming patterns by choosing which of the four beats to strum on. Here are a few examples...
  The better you get at this the more it starts to sound like the strumming you would have in a piece of music. So far we have limited ourselves to one chord. Most rhythm parts will have at least one chord change, so we need to learn how to co-ordinate our strumming hand and our fretting hand in order to strum while moving between various chords.
  Have a go at counting that while moving your strumming hand accordingly. This is the underlying movement behind the next set of exercises.
  Now let's play them with some different chords. For each exercise play C over bar 1 and Am over bar 2. Here's an example of 1a played this way...
  The next three strumming patterns are slightly more challenging. As before, try these with one chord only at first, then with a different chord over each bar, such as C for bar 1 and Am for bar 2 (like for the last set) or Em for bar 1 and C for bar 2...
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conversations.value: What is the last four paragraphs?
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conversations.value: In the above example the low E string is wound around itself twice, as should the A and D strings be. For the smaller, smooth strings (G, B and high E) you should loop them around three times to make sure they don't slip out when the string is finally tightened at the tuning peg.
  Now onto the other end of the string at the guitars head. Below is what we are aiming for. The strings should be wound so they come out from above the peg, not underneath. Similar also applies to the classical as the electric and acoustic; make sure the strings come out from the peg in a way that makes them as straight as possible when looking at the guitar face-on. Each of the strings should be wound around the peg at least 3 times, the thicker the string is the less amount of times you can wind it around while the thinner strings can be wound around a few times more.
  The ends of the strings sticking out from the bridge may cause a buzzing noise when the guitar is played but don't cut them yet because the strings need to settle into place. The guitar will tend to go out of tune (flat) for a couple of days while tension in the strings makes the knots gradually tighten, so it will need to be tuned more regularly for a short period. Once the strings are settled after a couple of days then you can cut the ends off.
  All songs (except for Canon in A, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Frere Jacques, Greensleeves, Amazing Grace, Bayou Noir and Florida Blues) composed by Gareth Evans. Guitar played by Gareth Evans on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 40, 41. Bass played by Gareth Evans on tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41. Drums programmed by Gareth Evans on tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41. Real Band (PG music) used for backing band on tracks 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 42.
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conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
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conversations.value: In the above example the low E string is wound around itself twice, as should the A and D strings be. For the smaller, smooth strings (G, B and high E) you should loop them around three times to make sure they don't slip out when the string is finally tightened at the tuning peg.
  Now onto the other end of the string at the guitars head. Below is what we are aiming for. The strings should be wound so they come out from above the peg, not underneath. Similar also applies to the classical as the electric and acoustic; make sure the strings come out from the peg in a way that makes them as straight as possible when looking at the guitar face-on. Each of the strings should be wound around the peg at least 3 times, the thicker the string is the less amount of times you can wind it around while the thinner strings can be wound around a few times more.
  The ends of the strings sticking out from the bridge may cause a buzzing noise when the guitar is played but don't cut them yet because the strings need to settle into place. The guitar will tend to go out of tune (flat) for a couple of days while tension in the strings makes the knots gradually tighten, so it will need to be tuned more regularly for a short period. Once the strings are settled after a couple of days then you can cut the ends off.
  All songs (except for Canon in A, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Frere Jacques, Greensleeves, Amazing Grace, Bayou Noir and Florida Blues) composed by Gareth Evans. Guitar played by Gareth Evans on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 40, 41. Bass played by Gareth Evans on tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41. Drums programmed by Gareth Evans on tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 40, 41.