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Your First Guitar Lesson (Beginning Guitar) [DVD]

Huckabee, Dan (Actor) Rated:
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Format: DVD
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
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November 5, 2002 		—
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Genre Romance
Format NTSC, Color, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, DVD, Digital Sound
Contributor Huckabee, Dan
Language English
Runtime 56 minutes
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For kids, adults, and sexy senior citizens. This one-hour DVD is guaranteed success because it follows the logic that the human being can only think of one thing at a time. You will learn the 19 main open chords & 23 songs that will give you plenty of practice to master all 19 chords quickly & easily. Learn how to make a guitar easy to play, how to use small guitars & ukuleles for children & people with small hands. Learn the parts of the guitar & how to tune, & all the tricks that make learning quick & easy. Note: This is a breakthrough in beginning guitar because we sat down & determined how many things "all at the same time" that video lessons were requiring of students. It turned out to be anywhere from 9-12 things at once! That's downright inhumane! Most of the students gave up, & it wasn't their fault. The teaching systems were simply loading them down with too many things at once. The reason we created "Your First Guitar Lesson" was to solve this problem. We give you loads of fun material, but "one-easy-logical-step-at-a-time. Includes: Auld Lang Syne • Amazing Grace • Aura Lee (Love Me Tender) • Away in a Manger • Camptown Races • Do Lord • Greensleeves • Happy Birthday • Heart & Soul • Home on the Range • House of the Rising Sun • Jingle Bells • John Jacob Jingleheymer Smith • Kum Ba Ya • Little Sadie • My Bonnie • Midnight Special • Mountain Dew • Oh Suzanna • Old Time Religion • Sloop John B • This Old Man (Barney Song) • You Are My Sunshine (60 min) (booklet inside the package)

Product details

  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.88 ounces
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Color, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, DVD, Digital Sound
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 56 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 5, 2002
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Huckabee, Dan
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Musicians Workshop
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00006HI52
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

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3.9 out of 5 stars
3.9 out of 5
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Brian K. Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple, straight-forward, a very good place to start
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2013
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So, you've picked up a beat up old guitar at a local flea market, had the guys at the local shop fix the problems and put on a new set of strings, and now you need to know how to play the thing. This DVD will give you all the essential basics with none of the confusing rhetoric or abstract theory. Basic chords and entertaining campfire songs make up the DVD and the printable book on the disk. When you finish this you won't be ready to start your own band, but you will be able to lead your friends in everyone's favorite singalong songs.

The only thing the DVD doesn't provide is practice, but then, no book or DVD in the world can replace the hours and hours of strumming different patterns and playing different chords that is required to coax your guitar into making music.
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Sharon Rose
3.0 out of 5 stars It was OK but just OK
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2004
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I was a little disappointed in this DVD. The DVD did have some interesting information in the beginning about what to look for in a good guitar and some good tuning tips. The rest of the DVD went like this, he showed you quickly, how to form 3 cords, then Dan Huckabee would play a song using those three cords, and right to another song using those three cords. Then he would quickly show you a new cord and play a few more songs (very quickly I might ad) which used these cords. And so it went. Song after song of Dan playing songs. Never bothered to tell you any strumming patterns or even that you do not hit certain strings when playing certain cords. He would play the songs at full speed so for beginners there was no hope of keeping up. Dan explained that he did not want to overwhelm a person showing them too much at one time and letting a person focus on cord learning. The DVD did come with a book so if you wanted to learn the folk songs Dan played you can refer to the book. The DVD basically did not cover much at all. One thing was very funny, in the whole DVD Dan never smiled, however at the end they showed clips of him trying to smile for the camera. You could hear the camera guy telling him to smile then Dan would crack up laughing. Kind of like the bloopers at the end. The DVD was lacking in a lot of areas but not a total waste of money. You do get a book that tells you how to play 23 popular folk songs, and some good tips in the beginning, but it was basically lacking in all other areas. Maybe it was disappointing because I had just watched and played along with Learning Guitar for Dummies with Jon Chappell, who does a lot more explaining and covers more basic ground in a easy to follow format. Learning Guitar for Dummies I would recommend. It was a great DVD for beginners.
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James L. Boggess Sr.
4.0 out of 5 stars Your First Guitar Lesson
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2009
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This DVD is very good for the beginner, as I am. I am trying to learn
the guitar on my own, with the help of this DVD I am taking a very big
step forward. This DVD show's you the chords that you will need as a starting guitar player, and helps you get going on changing chords. Good
DVD for the money.
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Z. White
2.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe everything you read
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2007
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I too bought this DVD because of the other reviews saying it was slow and easy to follow. That is definitely not true. By 5 minutes into the DVD, Dan has taught you 3 chords and is already teaching you to play 2 songs. Instead of slowing down and breaking things down, he basically says "Turn off this DVD and go practice. When you're ready turn the DVD back on and continue." As a beginner, I still have too many questions and have almost given up trying to learn the guitar.
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John David Kneer
5.0 out of 5 stars Guitar Hero
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2008
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My son is 15. He promised if I would buy him a guitar that he'd learn to play. I bought him the Hal Leonard Guitar Method and Guitar for Dummies. I sat down with him and together we really got headaches. I didn't find fault in the methods, but they were tedious. Next we tried the DVD "Your First Guitar Lesson" and it allowed him to experience the sensation of making music immediately. We liked it because we weren't being required to think about counting or note reading. Instead, he was changing the chords with the songs. I don't think he had the attention span for the more academic approach. I'm thanking Dan Huckabee for preventing another Guitar Dropout.
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Tallulah
5.0 out of 5 stars Taught me to play
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2017
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Ok, so ol mike seems like a nice guy, and I'm very happy he taught me to play. I got it from the library and then bought it. It was better than the lessons I played for! Inspired me to play, but he is boring and very much reading the script but hang in there for the playing part :)
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Peter Rosario
3.0 out of 5 stars O.K Show me.
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2012
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It was O.K.some information about the instrument,It could have been slower on the fingering, over all I'd recommend especially for young folks.
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Mia_Vox
4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2011
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I had ordered 3 beginner guitar videos and of the 3 this is the one I found the most helpful and useful. I ended up selling back the other two and keeping this one on hand. Dan keeps things light and interesting. His voice didn't grate on my nerves either.
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