Kid's Guitar Course 2 (Book/CD/DVD)

Alfred's Kid's Guitar Course is one of the best-selling guitar method courses for kids. This award-winning ("Best Product of the Year" -- Disney's iParenting Media Award) method is an extremely easy-to-follow guitar method for kids ages 5 and up. Using plain language that's easy for kids to understand, three irresistible guitar experts guide students along---a clever classical dog, one cool jazz cat, and a friendly alligator who loves the blues---they focus attention by pointing out what's important on each page and make learning music fun. Kids will learn to play chords and melodies, read music, and perform lots of fun songs. In Book 2, they will learn more notes, songs, chords, and notation---all in clear and simple lessons. By the time they finish, they'll understand dynamics, accompaniment patterns, and new rhythms, and play on all six strings.

The book comes to life on your stereo and your computer with the enclosed enhanced CD. The disc includes beautiful recordings of all the music in the book and can be played on a CD player or downloaded to an iPod or other MP3 player. Play the same disc on your computer (Windows/Mac compatible) to instantly access an interactive guitar tuner, digital guitar chord dictionary, and play-along songs. Kids can see and hear the music, and even adjust the tempo of songs for practice or performance.

The companion DVD to this best-selling edition features a live instructor to make learning the guitar even easier. Hosted by renowned guitarist Janet Robin, this DVD demonstrates the fundamentals of guitar playing including how to hold and tune the guitar, strum chords, read music, and play lots of fun songs. Also included are live onscreen notes for an easy introduction to reading music, live performances demonstrate how the music should sound, and bonus mp3 audio tracks of all examples for listening and playing along.