Teach Yourself Guitar

Let's take a look at some of the material available for the person who just wants to learn guitar out of books. Most of these books cost somewhere between five and ten dollars, American and are available from Sheet Music Plus, a great source of sheet music and instructional CDs and tapes.
This is just a very quick selection from their range:
You Can Teach Yourself Guitar
By William Bay
A general tutor for beginners
Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
This is a very popular guitar method. Its success lies in the fact that is extremely easy to understand and very flexible. It moves at a slow, steady pace and enables you to play chord accompaniments in 7 primary guitar keys! In addition, you will learn to strum blues chords and you will also begin to play fingerstyle backgrounds. This book is supplemented by a play along CD.
Sheet Music Plus, is a bit of a reality check for people who have gotten used to all the technological bells and whistles of online guitar lessons.


Guitar for the Absolute Beginner
Performed by Happy Traum.
Here is a complete course that will have you playing the guitar in minutes! Happy Traum, one of the world's most experienced guitar teachers, has carefully designed this hands-on, step-by-step method for all age groups. All the basic chords and important picking and strumming techniques are taught, and you will be singing and playing more than a dozen songs right from the first lesson! By the end of this course you will know over 70 songs, and be able to play in most keys using a variety of picking and strumming techniques. FOUR CDs * INCLUDES BOOK OF CHORDS + LYRICS * LEVEL 1

Teach Yourself Guitar Theory
Practical music theory for all guitarists! Includes all the music theory fundamentals needed by guitar players. It also explains the different guitar types, provides a step-by-step description of how to build scales and chords and offers entertaining puzzles, riddles and quizzes to test your progress. Topics covered include rhythm, meter, rests, major and minor scales, chords, intervals and more.

Teach Yourself To Play Guitar - Book/Enhanced CD
Everything you need to know to start playing now! Written by Morton Manus, Ron Manus. Instructional book and examples CD for guitar. With standard notation, guitar tablature, chord names, fingerings, instructional text, instructional photos, guitar notation legend, guitar chord chart and introductory text.
With both tablature and standard music notation, photos and diagrams, teach yourself the differences between the various types of guitars and the sounds they create. In addition to learning advanced tablature techniques, such as bending, hammer-ons and pull-offs, youÕll teach yourself to vary your style as you learn to play music arranged in rock, heavy metal, blues, country, jazz and folk styles. One of our most popular books! The Alfred Enhanced CD contains great audio accompaniments you can play on your stereo and doubles as an interactive and fun multimedia learning tool that works on any Windows-compatible PC. The song player shows you exactly how each song should be played, lets you customize the audio levels, adjust playback tempo and even record your performance (microphone needed).

Al DiMeola Presents The Ultimate First Guitar Book
Written by Al DiMeola.
Instructional book for guitar. With instructional text, chord names, guitar chord diagrams and instructional photos. 48 pages.
This excellent beginner's book guides guitarists through the basics in a clear, easy-to-understand manner. Unlike other beginning methods, this book teaches all of the notes on the guitar through the fifth position, all of the most common open string chords, both flat and sharp keys, and the basics of technique and music theory. Includes lots of helpful photos and diagrams.