Best Kids' Guitar Course EVER!
342035
Yes, I have been teaching guitar lessons for over twenty-five years and this is, by far, the best course I've used.  My students and their parents love the songs.  The children learn by note and by chord and retain it all!  You really can't go wrong with this.  And if you are an adult and want a simple and fast way to start to play, then use this book and CD, too!  By the way, the retail price of this course is $34.95 in the stores.  Always try Amazon first!
1017017
Bought this with an epiphone starter guitar and it's awesome, I haven't touched a guitar in over 12 years and the way it runs you through with training wheels and automatically gauges your skill level and increases/decreases difficulty (sets more chords or less) on the fly is incredible! The mini games in the guitarcade focus on guitar 101 and the lesson progression is great I love this game for re igniting such a fun instrument, my ONLY recommendation is get some neon strings for noobs it will help since it's color coordinated for the strings, more advanced players will just have fun playing adult guitar hero lol
4913339
Justin is a phenomenal teacher and this book is great for anyone starting to learn guitar. The book goes perfectly with his Beginner's course but even on its own is a superb tool for beginners. It has a lot of famous songs arranged using simple chords (pitch-perfect renditions I should add). It's filled with useful tips and suggestion to improve your playing and make the sound more authentic even if you are a beginner. I don't think I have seen a better, more beginner friendly guitar songbook out there. I would highly recommend this to anybody learning guitar. It's a must-have if you are learning using Justin's videos.

Also, it's spiral bound with good quality thick pages so that it can take the wear and tear. For the price, it's practically a steal. I can't recommend this book enough.
3728438
Soft Mozart is a wonderful way to learn piano!  It also teaches so much about music in general.  When I was a child, I had to take piano lessons. Even after 5 or 6 years, I really had not advanced, and I HATED every minute of practicing!  Everyone said that I would be sorry that I had quit taking lessons.  Somehow, that day never came; I never found any reason to wish that I had kept at that miserable practice.  Then my daughter was born.  She loves all things to do with music; she is always singing, pretending to play instruments, and dancing.  So was I tempted to start her on piano lessons??? NO, NO, NO!  I did not want her to learn to hate it like I did.  I just figured that she would learn it somehow on her own, since she seemed to have a natural inclination to it.  Then I heard about Soft Mozart when she was 2 years old.  I researched it for quite a while and finally decided that it would be worth trying.  I had decided that if my daughter didn't love it, we would just quit right away.  So I saved my money and finally bought it when they had a really good sale.  My daughter was 3 years, 5 months old when we started.  Right away, I was impressed enough to want to try it myself.  After all, most of the "learning" involves playing video type games!  I am pleased to say that after only 9 months of using the program, both of us are learning so much.  She is developing perfect pitch!  She can play songs with both hands at the same time.  She can read music notes on the screen. And she is just learning how to write music notes.  I can play more now than I could after my years of misery in regular lessons.  But best of all, we both LOVE it!

Soft Mozart uses games to teach music concepts like keeping time, reading notes in the treble clef, reading notes in the bass clef, recognizing sounds of different notes, and the order of notes.  The games are fun to play, but simple enough that even a young child can play them.  There is a library of songs to choose from that start at a very beginning level all the way up to very advanced level.  One of the things I like best about Soft Mozart is the online support you get.  There is a teacher available to help with any problem you encounter.  There is a great community of other people using the same program.  If you want to, you can keep everyone updated about your progress.  Then you will find that you have a great group of people cheering you or your kids on!  You can show your kids videos of other kids practicing and learning the same things that they are learning.

This program is great for home use, with kids from 2 years old on up through adults.  There are also piano teachers who are using it with their students.  It works great for school use too!
3922438
This is by far the best Guitar Theory course i have ever used. I have tried a few others but they always seemed to miss some steps or were just too hard for me to follow. Desi has a way of explaining things that just make sense to me.
The printed material and the great Videos that are provided with the course are a win win in my book.

A great added bonus is the email contact that Desi provides. he has always answered  my emails and addes other links or tips that he thinks will help me. I highly recommend this course to anyone that may be struggling with trying to understand Guitar Theory.

Mike C.

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2329846
As a preschool teacher, I could not be happier with The Shushybye Dream Band Live on Tour, which is the only DVD that my students ever want to listen to!  They even created their own Shushybye train dance, which gets them up and active.  It is now part of our daily routine to sing Shushybye songs. The children love Snoozles, Dozie and Zeez, as well as the DVD's outstanding original songs.  I highly recommend this DVD for all preschool age children.
3291530
I can't say enought positive things about this book/cd set.  It introduces rhythm patterns and counts in an easily understandable format.  It teaches styles applicable to all forms of guitar, including the common rhythms of jazz, country, ragae, and rock.  The CD has helped my ability to follow complex rhythm and pick patters immensely.  The CD is very user friendly.  As an added bonus, I discovered the guitar track is on the right channel, so you can turn it off and play with the drum sequence.  The ability to play with the drum tracks has helped my timing greatly and has been a great break from the metronome.  The book explains as much theory as you need in order to understand what you are doing, but no more, which I really appreciated.  Too many of the music books I have used previously either ignore theory totally or bog you down with it.  For children, I would expect a 9 or 10 year old to be able to use this program well, so long as they know the basic chords and are able to make basic changes.
I would recommend basic familiarity with chords before using this book.  It provides diagrams of the chords but immediatly begins presenting rhythm patterns, so you should be familiar with the basic fingerings.  This book was worth the money just for the alternate chord fingerings which facillitate rapid chord changes.
This is a very general book, but the company puts out several geared to specific types of music, which I hope to progress to shortly.
344240
I love these awesome guitar jams. The book says it's for kids but teens and even adult beginners will love rocking out to these jams while learning to play guitar! This is a great follow up to the beginner method books in the series.  All my students love learning guitar this way!
4377806
I took up guitar playing back in India in the 80's and taught myself how to play using this book, then life took its course and brought me to the US and I quit playing till last month. I picked up this book again (photocopies of most sections as it was not available except in the library in my hometown) and started playing again. The book is timeless and covers scales, triads and chords systematically by building the right theoretical underpinnings allowing one to play melody and rhythm while having a solid understanding of how to compose for the guitar.

It covers tremendous ground that I have not found in any other book since encountering it in terms of playing guitar.

If you want to learn guitar from the very basics to the most advanced concepts in order to play your own music, buy this book! You will not regret it! I  am buying this book today at long last!
4608688
My kids are ACTUALLY learning to play guitar with this book.  WOW, considering how hard I had to encourage them to learn.  They could play simple songs in the first month of using it.
2832660
This is a fantastic curriculum for elementary general music classes.  I bought it at a music educators' conference where Dr. Feierabend presented 4 workshops, covering this curriculum, as well as his Conversational Solfege curriculum.  He is an outstanding educator and his workshops were, by far, the best of the conference.  I purchased the whole curriculum set there, which includes the curriculum book, the 4 necessary CDs, the 8 supplemental books, and the Move It DVD/CD combo.  You will spend over $200 for all of these resources, but they are all well worth it.  This curriculum includes enough full lesson plans for 3 years of instruction.  I am using it for grades pre-K through 1st.

If you are interested in this product, please be aware that Dr. Feierabend is a Kodaly method teacher.  His lessons are based completely on listening, moving, and singing to authentic folk music and classical music.  I was happy to switch to this from my "big box" school curriculum, which includes some great folk songs and popular songs, but also a lot of drivel.

If you want a serious curriculum for pre-K through 1st grade that is seriously fun...get this one!  I'm on week 4 with my pre-K through 1st classes and they LOVE it!
3192686
I read the other reviews and have to consistently agree with everyone else.  This video is excellent.  Paul, besides being a phenomonal guitar player, is a super teacher.  He explains everything very well, and not too quickly.  He plays everything super slow so you can get it, and then fast to show you what it could sound like once you get it.  I have been playing guitar for 23 years, can play a lot of tough stuff, but boy, my playing has improved even more than I have imagned in the last year by watching this video.  Paul gives you about 20 things in this video, and each and every thing is great, whether it be alternate picking (this is great! What a help), string skipping, patterns, arpeggios, etc.  If you can master the 20 or so things he gives you on this, you will become such a better guitar player - guranteed.  This video is worth every penny.  As a matter of fact, I'm buying his other one (Terrifying Guitar trip).  If you're a real, serious guitar player, this video will change your life.  One thing I would say is it's not for beginners, because there are some pretty complicated things he teaches that are advanced, so fyi.  It's also great to see him wail up close, which is what he does in the beginning.  And last but not least, check out the cool Bach-type thing he plays at the end - what a great ending.  Paul Gilbert rocks!
3900466
This guy is a great and patient teacher.  Goes slowly through all the finger motions of fingerstyle.  Good choice of songs progressing from simple to more challenging.  Great!  Wish I knew you in person so you could give my kids regular lessons!!
2961101
We've had great success with John and Kevin's "Introduction to Guitar".  All the resources are there to construct a first-class intro to guitar course, and our students enjoyed all the lessons. The ingenuity and care with which all the modules were designed makes this a worthy college-level text, and we will continue to use it. One thing that we particularly liked was that the modules are discretely constructed, which lends flexibility to the book. This allows for instructors to write a syllabus that suits their teaching style and present chords, note-reading, etc. as best fits their goals. Great job! Dr. Kerry Alt and Matt Reiter, New Mexico State University
3040652
My son really enjoys these recorded guitar versions.  The songs are exactly as the artist recorded them so he can listen and learn even faster!  Well worth the money!!
4115345
This method is highly effective for absolute beginner guitarists! I have used this method in large elementary classroom settings. Students were highly engaged and successful. Songs are fun and melodic, especially for elementary students.

I also like how each song has a particular teaching point and is thoughtfully graded (i.e. playing in different positions, sliding, playing rounds, shifting positions on an open string etc.).

I highly recommend this method for elementary students and beginner guitarists. It comes with accompanying chord charts too!
4713340
This is amazing. Kids kept asking to listen to the music and songs over and over.  The songs are full of humor, wit, and at the same time teach the children about the composers, music,  etc. in fun ways.  Very clever lyrics and loads of fun and education!