The Best Guitar Method Sampler

The Best Guitar Method curriculum is designed to provide one full year of guitar instruction.

Each lesson starts with concepts, then provides detailed instruction, and wraps up with "Play and Do" activities.

View Unit 2 Lesson 1

Chords are introduced by key. Innovative chord grids display fingerings, note names and scale degrees. Chords are also displayed in standard notation and TAB. For the visual learner, a picture of the hand is also provided.

Every lesson includes an accompanying video. Here is the video from Unit 2 Lesson 1

View Unit 6 Lesson 6

Classroom teachers will really appreciate that students learn to play both the accompaniment and melody. All students are busy playing! Here is a mid-book example. Notice the syncopated rhythms.

View Unit 11 Lesson 11

This is the last song in the book. It brings together many of the skills and concepts learned. This is also an example of the quality of the original compositions written for the book.

The Best Guitar Method is an innovative and comprehensive beginning guitar multi-media curriculum bridging the worlds of the classroom music educator, private guitar instructor, and guitar student. The Best Guitar Method is not just another “start on the first string” guitar book with a new cover. Instead, The Best Guitar Method is an entirely new approach to guitar instruction.

Who is The Best Guitar Method written for?
• Classroom music educators
• Private lesson teachers
• Students, from ages 9 to 99
Why is The Best Guitar Method the best?
• Promotes lifelong musical expression by
teaching techniques that translate outside
the classroom
• The curriculum is applicable to a wide
variety of musical styles
• Each lesson provides detailed instruction
on how to play
• Each lesson includes a Play and Do that
emphasizes what to practice
• Students learn accompaniments and
melodies—all students play all the time
• Lessons establish proper left-hand and
right-hand playing techniques
• Sight-reading starts on the third string,
G-A-B, (Do-Re-Mi)
• Classroom internet access is not
required - the book provides a
stand-alone curriculum
• Online open-access demonstration
videos compliment printed instruction
• Online open-access audio is available at
a variety of tempos

• Differentiated curriculum (simplified and
challenge) is available online for many
lessons
• When students learn new chords, they can go to a growing list of popular songs that they can play with the chords they know.
• The book uses standard notation, TAB,
and innovative chord grids that show
fingerings, note names and scale degrees
What will students learn?
• Strum patterns using whole, half,
quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes
• Fingerstyle, and flatpicking right-hand
techniques
• Syncopated strum patterns using
dotted and tied rhythms
• The primary chords (I, IV, V, and V7) in
the major keys of G, D, A, C and E
• The secondary chords (ii, iii, and vi) in
the major keys of G, D, A, C and E
• The primary chords (i, iv, v, and V7) in
the keys of E minor and A minor
• The first position single note fingerings
for all the keys listed above
• The ability to read standard notation,
rhythmic notation, TAB, and chord charts