Rolling Stone Magazine recommends Damon Ferrante’s guitar and piano books as the #1 Best Guitar and Piano Books for Beginners! The book and 20 streaming video lessons are designed for beginners just learning to play acoustic or electric guitar. This is a step-by-step, clear, practical guide to teach yourself guitar chords, scales, music theory, the notes on the guitar neck, and guitar technique. Based on over thirty years of guitar-teaching experience, music professor Damon Ferrante’s guitar books are used by hundreds of thousands of guitar students and teachers. No Music Reading is Necessary! The book and streaming video lessons cover power chords, barre chords, open-position scales and chords, music theory, notes of the guitar neck, seventh chords, picking technique, strumming, rhythms, finger positions, technique-building exercises, and practical scales and concepts. There are easy-to-understand diagrams, photos, and illustrations to help you learn quickly.