Play Better Guitar: Take Your Playing to the Next Level

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This inspirational, fully illustrated guide to playing the guitar provides a sound framework for the beginner and reinforces basic knowledge for the more experienced player. Arranged in three sections - The Basics, Moving On and Learning from the Experts - it builds into a progressive course, with exercises, useful tips and examples designed to enable you to play better. The comprehensive coverage ranges from mastering first chords, simple tuning and fingerpicking, to improvising and composing, creating effects and matching the sounds and styles of the guitar greats.

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David Black is a guitarist and teacher. He began playing the guitar at the age of 10 and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the Royal College of Music, London. David regularly performs solo, as one half of the 'Albach Guitar Duo' and is a member of the contemporary music group 'rarescale'. He also teaches guitar at several schools in southeast London.