Buy this and buy the Dummy book “Guitar Exercise” and “Music Theory” then go to your local music store and invest in an instructor. Give it 6-12 months (it’s going to go by fast trust me) and you are going to see massive improvements. Once you develop calluses and able to barre chords the rest is a matter of practice and patience.

These books have been very helpful in my musical journey. They are filled with relevant information, lots of diagrams to illustrate the topics being covered, and a very easy delivery method. He also includes a batch of audio recordings to listen to if you basically want to make it into an audio book. I can see why it’s so highly rated.

This is the book. This book helped me finally understand so much about what I was doing on guitar. James dumbs everything down enough in the beginning and builds it up from scratch to bring you to speed. I cannot recommend this book enough. If you feel that you are OK at guitar, but you’re ready to take the necessary next steps to increase your ability to play with other people especially in a band setting then this is the book. Don’t waste your time on any other book until you read this one after you read this book you will have the core foundation that you need in order to understand a lot of other books that I’ve tried to read. If you are on the fence about this one, you can climb down and click buy.