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    Beginner Guitar Bootcamp: Learn 100+ Songs in 7 Days Even if You've Never Played Before: Learn 100+ SongS in 7 Days even if you've never Played Before
    Beginner Guitar Bootcamp: Learn 100+ Songs in 7 Days Even if You've Never Played Before: Learn 100+ SongS in 7 Days even if you've never Played Before
    Beginner Guitar Bootcamp: Learn 100+ Songs in 7 Days Even if You've Never Played Before: Learn 100+ SongS in 7 Days even if you've never Played Before
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    Beginner Guitar Bootcamp: Learn 100+ Songs in 7 Days Even if You've Never Played Before: Learn 100+ SongS in 7 Days even if you've never Played Before

    By Vreny Van Elslande

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    About this ebook

    Imagine picking up a guitar today for the first time ever, and impressing your friends and family with your ability to strum over 100 songs only 7 days from now.


    It's not as crazy as it sounds! You also don't have to practice all day to ach

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZOT Zin Publishing
    Release dateAug 20, 2022
    ISBN9781735357140
    Beginner Guitar Bootcamp: Learn 100+ Songs in 7 Days Even if You've Never Played Before: Learn 100+ SongS in 7 Days even if you've never Played Before

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      Book preview

      Beginner Guitar Bootcamp - Vreny Van Elslande

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Trust Helps You Learn with Less Effort

      Tools

      How to Tune the Guitar

      How to Hold the Guitar

      DAY ONE

      Day 1: Four Chords & Twenty-Five Songs in One Hour

      Rhythm

      Strum Am Songs

      Day 1,  Part 2: The E Chord

      Hurting Fingertips & Stretching

      Day 1,  Part 3: The C Chord

      Still Day 1,  Final Part: The F Chord

      DAY TWO

      Day 2: Keep Practicing Yesterday’s Chords

      Day 2: Dexterity Training

      Day 2: The Em Chord

      DAY THREE

      Day 3: The A Chord

      Day 3: The D Chord

      Day 3: The Dsus4 Chord

      DAY FOUR

      Day 4: The G Chord

      Day 4: The Dm Chord

      DAY FIVE

      Day 5: Two-Chord Songs

      DAY SIX

      Day 6: More Two-Chord Songs

      DAY SEVEN

      Day 7: Notable Easy Three-Chord Songs

      Songs with More than Three Chords

      How to Play Flat and Sharp Chords

      Branching Out from There: Bar Chords

      I, IV, V

      Blues Songs

      The Most Commonly Used Strum Rhythm

      In Closing

      Acknowledgements

      About The Author

      Review

      Contact Info

      Introduction

      CONGRATS on the start of your guitar journey! You’re in for a fun rollercoaster ride.

      Can you imagine that, even if you’ve never held a guitar before, you will already be able to play about a hundred songs within a week?

      All it takes is:

      1)  Optimism: Feel the joy of having it already accomplished.

      2)  Confidence: Believe that you can do this. Yes, some things will be challenging. Embrace the suck. Find joy in being out of your comfort zone. Keep in mind that outside of your comfort zone is where the best learning takes place, and where you’ll experience the most growth.

      3)  A willingness to learn and an openness to follow directions.

      4)  Persistence and patience.

      5)  Self-discipline and focus.

      Self-discipline and focus are incredibly important here to achieve what the book title promises. The most crucial of all the traits mentioned in the list above is focus. You will probably be tempted to skip around the book. I totally understand; I would have a hard time with that myself when excitement and curiosity about the journey kick in. After all, it’s difficult to resist the temptation to randomly thumb through the book, especially if you have an excited, curious mind that’s anxious to find out what songs you’ll be learning later and that’s dying to find out ahead of time what the system is that will make it possible for you to learn so many in such a short time. However, all the time you spend thumbing through the book is time that could have been spent learning. One cannot learn that much that quickly while wasting time.

      You will get the most out of this book if you delay that gratification of getting your curiosity satisfied in favor of diligently working through the book, page by page. Keep your focus on the journey. Keep your focus on the process. Stay in the present moment with each word you read and each exercise you perform. With the process being the main focus, work from beginning to end without skipping around unless specifically instructed to do so. Optimally utilize your focus, time, and energy by avoiding the temptation to randomly jump to new sections. The fact I’ve just said the same thing so many times in a row in so many different ways, only serves to emphasize how important I think this is for your progress and results.

      All champions and top performers reach their world-class results because they kept their focus on the process. When you focus on the process, the destination takes care of itself. Trying to get a glimpse of the destination ahead of time is a distraction that will only slow down the results you could be getting if you focused on the process instead. This book you’re holding is the map that outlines the trajectory of that process. Following this map is how you will get the extraordinary results that the book title promises.

      Anyhow: there is a plan, a goal, a vision, and a strategy embedded in these pages. Whenever you’re ready, take the driver’s seat, and enjoy the ride!

      Even though you might never have touched a guitar before, you’re merely days away from impressing your friends, relatives, and loved ones with your playing. Be prepared to see their jaws drop in a couple of days when they hear you rock song after song on guitar.

      There is nothing quite like that amazing feeling. It’s priceless!

      Trust Helps You Learn

      with Less Effort

      I can imagine it must almost sound like a marketing gimmick: Hey, when you buy MY product, you will be able to play one hundred songs in the next seven days, no prior experience required! It’s part of the reason why it took me a long time to overcome the reluctance to give the book this all too sales-y sounding subtitle. In today’s world of empty promises, clickbait, and an overabundance of marketing slogans bombarding us everywhere all the time, it’s become hard to assess what’s for real and what is meaningless, time-wasting rubbish. Moreover, with today’s deluge of information and opinions, it also has become exponentially more challenging to know who or what to trust. It sometimes seems like everyone and their grandma has suddenly become an authority or an expert on YouTube or on the internet.

      The reality, though, is that most of these so-called experts all too often give very questionable advice. I’ve seen this with students who come to me for lessons after having learned from YouTube by themselves first. They often ask me, Why do I still have wrist issues? I’ve been playing almost a year and my wrist still hurts a bit when I play guitar. Or, Why is it still so hard to switch chords? Shouldn’t this be easy by now? I’ve been playing six months already!

      I’ve seen it all: from students with terrible hand technique because that is how they saw it done in YouTube videos, to students whose strumming and coordination is all over the place because videos don’t correct their timing, to students who have been learning from videos for months, yet have practically nothing to show for it in terms of progress and results, to students who are on a course to end up physically injured due to bad technique. The only thing I have not seen yet in the past twenty-seven years of teaching, is someone who, learning from YouTube (or similar style resources), got really good in a very short amount of time, without also taking lessons with a teacher.

      Because there is so much bad information out there eroding trust and credibility, and because trust is such an essential requirement for optimal learning, I owe it to you to first build up your trust a bit, so you can allow yourself to be freely open to all the information you’re about to discover. Learning a hundred songs on guitar in seven days really is possible, even if you’ve never played before. It’s a process. You will get the maximum results out of this resource, as long as you trust the process. Without trust, true deep learning is hampered. Trust instills confidence. Confidence that you can do this, confidence that the process works, confidence that you will achieve your goal of playing guitar. That confidence will help you learn faster and with less effort. Here are some quick, short, trust-building stories.

      1)  Music school in Belgium is a ten-year program. I finished the education in seven years. I progressed so well that my teacher and the school board decided to allow me to skip three years. To my knowledge, at that time, this was unheard of and had never happened before. I graduated in seven

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