The Grip Book, Third Edition

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This friendly, practical, on-the-job manual details the equipment, processes, and tricks of the trade that you will need to know in order to be a successful grip. This new edition contains the latest information on the newest equipment available and has been updated to reflect changes in the industry. This valuable professional reference, known as "the bible" for grips, contains more information than ever on how to become a professional grip and have a successful career, and will be an indispensable learning tool and reference for all experience levels. The Companion DVD includes visual demonstrations of techniques and equipment as well as the popular "grip rap" theme song.

* Completely updated and restructured for ease of use with helpful "tricks of the trade" throughout
* Hundreds of illustrations to help clarify and demonstrate concepts.
* Includes a DVD featuring visual demonstrations and the grip rap theme song

Customer Reviews:

It should be called "The" Grip Book........2007-10-01

Michael Uva knows his stuff. Stimultaneously entertaining and informative. In addition to expertly covering the grip business, Mr. Uva strongly advocates working hard, working safe, and being honest. His own personal success indicates that he practices what he preaches. The grip book covers not just what the equipment is and how it works, but how the grip should work and interact with other professionals on the set, (even the ones with which the grip might rather not interact). Much of the advice given in this book could be just as easily applied to any area of life where a person wants to be successful and respected when working with others. I haven't read a better book on this subject. It's required reading for anyone who grips for us unless they went to one of the better film schools, in which case it's not required, just recommended.

Good for noobs and experienced alike.......2007-09-11

A wealth of information. Good for helping newbies get familiar with the equipment and how it's used. Great illustrations and DVD. Experienced grips will find the TOT's (tricks of the trade) helpful as well. The "Grip Rap" theme song is hilarious.

Grip book & DVD right on target.......2007-07-03

I hit the dvd first and it was great! Very fast paced, but that's what is needed. Don't have a lot of time to sit and watch tv. Author goes over each piece of equipment so by the end of the dvd, you've been introduced to a very large selection of grip stuff and know how it's used.

The book then goes more in depth and more about how to act and how to get along with the others around you. Very Very valuable stuff here even if you're just dabbling in the business.

Highly recommended.

aka the grip bible.......2007-06-14

if you need to learn the basics of gripping this is a good place to start

Grip Book by Uva.......2007-01-03

It is what the title says. I think it is missing some of the older industry jargon but that probably doesn't matter. This is the only grip book you'll need. The only way to learn more is to actually work on a set.

The Singapore Grip (New York Review Books Classics)

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The Tolstoy of the Asian Theater
Historical fiction/commentary at its finest
Not Very Gripping
A Ride on the Descending Road of Modern History
Humor and Tragedy in Singapore

The Singapore Grip (New York Review Books Classics)
J.G. Farrell
Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
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ASIN: 1590171365
Release Date: 2005-01-31

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Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian. Business may be booming—what with the war in Europe, the Allies are desperate for rubber and helpless to resist Blackett's price-fixing and market manipulation—but something is wrong. No one suspects that the world of the British Empire, of fixed boundaries between classes and nations, is about to come to a terrible end.

A love story and a war story, a tragicomic tale of a city under siege and a dying way of life, The Singapore Grip completes the “Empire Trilogy” that began with Troubles and the Booker prize-winning Siege of Krishnapur.

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The Tolstoy of the Asian Theater.......2007-09-15

A vast and absorbing work of historical fiction, this magnificent novel is set in Singapore, in the months leading to the fall of the city to the Japanese in 1942. The unexpected and total defeat of the commonwealth allies by forces whose fighting abilities they had previously pooh-poohed has been called the worst defeat in British military history. Farrell describes these events very well, both by getting inside the minds of the real-life commanders and by inventing more humble characters on both sides who experience the fighting at first hand. But the main focus of the book is on the civilians, especially the merchant princes whose forefathers founded the colony at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula in the early nineteenth century, and the fictional firm of Blackett and Webb in particular.

The central figure at the start of the book is the rubber millionaire Walter Blackett, immensely proud of his firm's tradition, but concerned about handing it over to the next generation. Recognizing that his son Monty is a useless playboy, he concentrates on finding a suitable match for his elder daughter Joan, who has both brains and beauty. Much of the early part of the book has the romantic wit of Jane Austen, the dynastic maneuvering of John Galsworthy, and the jazz-age pizzazz of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The philosophical antithesis to Walter is Matthew Webb, the estranged son of his long-retired business partner, who arrives to take over his father's estate. Innocent and idealistic, he provides a pair of fresh eyes with which to view the colony. And what he sees first puzzles then horrifies him: exploitation of the native growers, the creation of a dependent economy rather than one that can be locally self-sustaining, and the manipulation of prices through a rubber cartel that holds the rest of the world to ransom. Matthew has much charm; in a rather confused way he eventually discovers passion; by the end of the book he has become a strong man of action; but his naive idealism never leaves him. Here the author who most comes to mind is Tolstoy, with Matthew the spiritual descendant of Levin in ANNA KARENINA.

Farrell is Tolstoyan too in his apparently effortless juggling of world events with personal intimacies, in the range of his characters from the mighty to the insignificant, in the fact that his people grow or decline, in his social awareness and moral conscience, and in his sheer ability to tell a story. Like WAR AND PEACE, this is a long book, and I read it during a three-week period when sometimes I could only manage a chapter or two a day, but never once did I lose the onward momentum or my interest in the characters and their situation; there are very few books that can promise that. The only thing that slightly disappointed me was the love story; Farrell's erotic scenes are somewhat more explicit than Tolstoy's, but there is little sense of grand romance, no Pierre and Natasha, no Kitty worthy of this Levin.

THE SINGAPORE GRIP is the third novel in JG Farrell's so-called "Empire Trilogy." The books are connected in that all deal with various moments in the decline of the British Empire, but they expand notably in scope. The first, TROUBLES, though set in the Irish War of Independence, is essentially a social comedy in form, focused on a group of mostly-elderly people living in a crumbling seaside hotel. The small enclave has become larger in the second novel, THE SIEGE OF KRISHNAPUR, where it is an entire garrison town under siege by sepoys in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. That book also expands the range and number of its characters, enabling the author to portray through them a great variety of attitudes in Victorian Britain towards religion, duty, and colonialism in all its aspects. With THE SINGAPORE GRIP, the enclave is now an entire city-state, and the range is wider still, now extending its political vision to the global scale and having a great deal more to say about commerce and economics. It shows an author Tolstoy-like in his vision, and very close to Tolstoy in his powers.

And the meaning of the title? The Singapore Grip might be any of several things, such as a rattan suitcase or a touch of the flu. But the most special meaning is revealed only at the end, a last touch of the humor that has never been totally absent from this book, no matter how grim the events that it describes.

Historical fiction/commentary at its finest.......2007-08-13

(Four-and-a-half stars) In "The Singapore Grip," Farrell convincingly recreates Singapore, 1942, on the verge of its fall to the Japanese. Each of the novels in Farrell's Empire trilogy are fantastic. "Grip", unlike its predecessors, suffers perhaps from a slight case of logorrhea; even so, it's a formidable, fascinating, at times downright funny book. Farrell has an uncanny ability to root out and deflate pretension and hypocrisy wherever it exists, and that's what he does here, to incredible comic effect. The buffoonish tycoon Walter Blackett is a solid stand-in for British imperalism at its blindest--having convinced himself of the great service he's supposedly done for the natives of Singapore, he struggles to maintain his rubber empire even in the face of steadily encroaching chaos. He is surrounded by characters of depth and interest: the skeptical Dupigny; the well-meaning but naive Matthew Webb; the "divided" Ehrendorf; and the wonderfuly droll Major Archer (already familiar to readers of Farrell's equally-terrific "Troubles"). Each of these men, in their own way, flesh out the novel's vision of colonialism and the pitfalls of world diplomacy.

Amid spectacular battle scenes and a dizzying wealth of information about the rubber industry, tax shelters, and military strategy, Farrell manages to hop nimbly from scenes of tragedy to hilarity to suspense and political commentary. In short, "The Singapore Grip", like the previous works in the Empire trilogy, has it all (including a terrifically ambiguous title--what is the "Singapore Grip" anyway? Read this book and you'll be able to answer that in 1,001 ways.)

Thanks to the New York Review of Books, American readers can now enjoy Farrell's work; which is great, since he deserves the widest possible readership.

Not Very Gripping.......2007-08-02

Perhaps a great part of the reason for these encomiastic reviews is the apt comparison between British hubris then in re the Japanese and current American hubris in re Iraq. - I simply don't know. - I do know, however, that I can not share in this universal laud. The book is a stylistic flop. The writing is clunky and flat. The characters, while admittedly droll at times, aren't very well threshed out. ---But my main objection to the work is that it is tendentious. Any "novel" in which the "novelist" suddenly switches to the first person in one chapter to compare what he is fictionalising to his own experience, only to revert to the fictionalization in the next chapter, and in which the last chapter is a hypothetical political lesson, is not the work of a master stylist, who would have worked these things seamlessly into the novel without these jolting digressions, but the work of a writer whose primary goal is political and would have been better off sticking to the essay.

Readers would be much better off reading an historical account (which one reviewer here provides excerpts of in his review) of the fall of Singapore. - The facts and real characters are actually much more droll and interesting - than reading this...whatever it is.

I suppose I'm wasting my breath. But, really, someone has to put plainly, for instance, that the three meanings of the title are not in any way "clever." Rather, they are contrived and twee. Farrell admits the contrived part in the Afterword to my edition concerning the erotic meaning, revealing that he learned of it from The Chinese Way of Love, but that he has been "unable to resist taking a hand in it myself."

Again, if you must read something about Singapore's fall, read the actual, fascinating history. If you must read something by Farrell, read Troubles, a novel free of all the blunderings here.

Three stars for the historical interest, which may serve as an impetus for the reader to look into historical accounts. But, otherwise, this book just doesn't have much of a hold.

A Ride on the Descending Road of Modern History.......2007-03-07

`Singapore Grip' recreates the world of pre-WWII Singapore. Farrell centers his tale around the Blackett and Webb conglomerate based on rubber plantations, but extends to wide-ranging export-import business. Singapore was created to be a trading center for the British Empire and it succeeded beyond any reasonable expectations.

As war edges closer the air of unreality gets thicker. Even when the Japanese attack Malaya in late 1941, these people just don't get it. Singapore Grip explores this world in detail and from many different perspectives. The higher in the colonial hierarchy, the harder it is for reality to penetrate. Walter Blackett, scion and head delusionist is still planning the company's 50th Jubilee while the Japanese are bombing the island and even Singapore town proper.

`Singapore Grip' is a vignette in what Huxley called "the descending road of modern history". The war gathers slowly, life begins to change, but not dramatically at first. But, the vise inexorably tightens and the world of the characters crumbles under the relentless pressure. Escape from the island seems at first an absurd idea, but it gradually becomes ever more desirable until it finally becomes impossible in the crush at the quays.

If you are tempted to turn away from this book, don't. `Singapore Grip' gathers force and clarity as Farrell slowly adds the pieces to his masterful mosaic and the reader is duly rewarded. The book has been recently reprinted in the excellent New York Review of Books Classics series. Highly recommended.

Humor and Tragedy in Singapore.......2007-01-18

This is a book of epic proportions, playing off -- often humorously --the pomposity of British colonials and the grim onset of occupation by the Japanese. The blindness of the colonials, their arrogance, their disregard of native peoples is delicious, in that the reader know that humility in the form of a ruthless invading Japanese war machine is just over the horizon. Farrell's ability to place the reader in pre-war Singapore is well-executed. In the final analysis, nobody comes out looking good -- not the Japanese, not the Brits, not the capitalists, not the communists. My only criticism is the endless detail the author goes into about the rubber market. I ended up skipping over most of that. But that did not detract from a wonderful novel.

The Grip Book; Or, the How to Become a Motion Picture Film Technician

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No Lights. No Cameras. But plenty of action.

The Grip Book; Or, the How to Become a Motion Picture Film Technician
Michael G. Uva , and Sabrina C. Uva
Manufacturer: Independent Cinema Technology
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0962081302

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No Lights. No Cameras. But plenty of action........2005-09-14

This isn't really a textbook. Rather, "The Grip Book" is more a field guide to most things needed to make a movie *other* than lights and cameras. Budding DPs and gaffers have plenty of other books to learn about cinematography or lighting, but the Uvas have assembled virtually the only illustrated guide to help a would-be grip tell the C-stands from the low-boys.

The text is a little thin in places, with only a cursory introduction before the illustrated encyclopedia, there is no information on tripods or heads and there are a few too many pages of manufacturer's specifications which would be better summarized (or at least re-set to be readable), but these are minor quibbles.

Short on theory it may be, but all by itself, this little book can teach you the difference between a Fisher 10 and a Chapman Hustler, what to bring when the key grip asks for an 'onkie-bonk' or some other inscrutable article of grip gear and enough tricks of the trade to make yourself useful around the set.

Even film makers working on budgets which preclude truckloads of grip goodies will find a wealth of useful information here -- if some unattainable piece of equipment seems necessary for a particular shot, the illustrations and explanations in "The Grip Book" may inspire less-expensive alternatives.

It may not be perfect, but "The Grip Book" is an indispensible reference for people in the technical side of the film business.

In the Grip of Grace: Your Father Always Caught You. He Still Does.

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Good stuff

In the Grip of Grace: Your Father Always Caught You. He Still Does.
Max Lucado
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: 0849963680

Book Description

Can anything separate us from God's love? Does He really love us, no matter what?

How does He feel about me when I snap at anything that moves? When I've failed as a parent? When my thoughts are gutter-level? When my tongue is sharp? Have I drifted too far? Waited too long? Slipped too much? The answer is found in one of life's sweetest words-grace.

It is God who lovingly holds us in the eternal grip of His grace. Our good deeds won't help. Perfect performance is not required. The God who made us has redeemed us and covered our sinfulness with His righteousness. His holiness is sufficient for all our sin. And that's grace.

Best-selling author Max Lucado proclaims the grace of God to be "the greatest discovery of my life." And he wants to share that discovery by taking us on a journey through the mountaintop truths found in Paul's letter to the Romans. "Romans is the grandest treatise on grace ever written. You'll find the air fresh and the view clear."

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Good stuff.......2007-05-07

I've been reading through this book with a friend, and we've really enjoyed the questions with each chapter. Great study book!!

The Worrywart's Prayer Book: 40 "Help-Me-Get-A-Grip, God" Meditations and Prayers

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A Godsend for Worrywarts: Don't Just Cope, Enjoy!

The Worrywart's Prayer Book: 40 "Help-Me-Get-A-Grip, God" Meditations and Prayers
Allia Zobel Nolan
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ASIN: 0757302602

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If you've never worried a day in your life, this isn't the book for you. Everyone else pick up a copyfast. Whether you're a single and anxious to meet Mr. Right; a fast-tracker worried about a reorganization; a middle-ager pacing the floor over wrinkles and gray hair; a wife who obsesses over her husband's well-being, or a perfectionist petrified of failure, The Worrywarts Prayer Book has an answer for you. Using anecdotal stories that mirror our own lives, Scripture, and personalized entreaties, this witty and poignant book demonstrates how the Bible, prayer, and faith in God's Will can help people of all ages learn to break the worry habit and enjoy a calmer, peaceful, God-trusting life. A truly thought-provoking, funny and uplifting book for anyone who has ever agonized over: What People Say are What People Think. Ten Pounds of Flesh. Change. Other People's Lives. Terrorism. Being Alone. Material Possessions, Death, Money, Timing, Accepting Joy . . . and everything else.

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A Godsend for Worrywarts: Don't Just Cope, Enjoy!.......2006-04-02

Super quotes and heart-opening insights here. A great book to turn to again and again because the good feeling on these pages is contagious. The author truly "gets" what worries us and all our typical automatic responses to things that happen every day. With humor and grace, she pokes fun at her own reactions to things, and seeing ourselves in these same situations somehow frees us. Chapters on dozens of topics from job jitters to finding a mate all flow easily, beginning with 6 or 7 terrific quotes (from the Bible and other sources), followed by plain talk (autobiographical, witty) on the topic, and ending with a letter/prayer that lifts us up. The message? ENJOY! And you will.

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darn!
Great book for beginners and pros
Disappointing for a first year grip
Required reading for 1st Barbeque
Essential, detailed on-the-job, step-by-step to work a shoot

The Grip Book
Michael G. Uva , and Sabrina Uva
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ASIN: 0240803159

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The Grip Book has been widely used by beginners and experienced key grips alike as both a learning tool as well as a handy reference for a number of years. It clearly details and illustrates all the equipment used by motion picture film technicians on stage as well as on location. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to include the latest models of all types of equipment and the authors have added important safety tips throughout the manual.

Customer Reviews:

darn!.......2001-06-13

...i thought this book would contain techniques how cranes and dolly's are built and how to use them, instead of that they show you some clamps and strange devices, and the rest of the book (3/4) is just a crane/dolly catalogue, only pictures and specifications, this book is only suited for people who want to see and know about all the crane types and some small devices (hooks and mounts). altough i was not interested in this subject of the book i read it and found it interesting

Great book for beginners and pros.......1998-12-15

I wish I had this book when I first started in this industry. Trying to figure out a c-stand, a flag, gels and bullets all at the same time can be stressful when you know nothing that first day! But for a beginner who wants to know the equipment, this is a great place to start. And for pros, the stuff on jibs, cranes, etc. is very good. I highly recommend it!

Disappointing for a first year grip.......1998-12-09

When I first learned about this book I was so excited. I had just started gripping on feature films and I thought I would be able to pick up some tips. Sadly, while Mr. Uva has been Key Gripping for years, he fails to provide true insight. While this book is great for people who have never worked with film equipment, at 30 clams, I regret the purchase. If you have gripped before, I would pass on this one.

Required reading for 1st Barbeque.......1998-10-20

I wish someone had shown me this book when I first started out. The best grip equipment reference out there. The Tricks Of The Trade sidelines are also helpful. I first became familiar with the Grip Book in the form of a dog-eared first edition (minus the cover and splattered with diesel fuel) via a very kind but crusty generator operator in Phoenix, AZ. The book answered all of the questions I was afraid to ask.

This new edition has info on cranes that is worth the cover price alone.

My only criticism is that the syntax, spelling and proofreading is lacking. And, yes. It Matters!

Essential, detailed on-the-job, step-by-step to work a shoot.......1998-10-13

This book offers lots of diagrams and pictures of the equipment and processes used on a film and TV set/shoot. That's important for newbies and those who want to learn more since when working on a film someone in charge will always shout out orders like, "Drop the apple box, and set up the flag over there!" This is a "break in" book for the film industry on the ground level.

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Baby Grip: Happy Baby Farm (Baby Grip)
Roger Priddy
Manufacturer: Priddy Books
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Binding: Board book

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Getting a Grip on the Basics for Kids (Getting a Grip)

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Getting a Grip on the Basics for Kids (Getting a Grip)
Beth Jones
Manufacturer: Valley Press Publishers
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ASIN: 0971715637

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God loves kids! Your kids will love this interactive Bible study designed to help kids know God through studying their own Bibles. Jesus loves childlike faith and "Getting A Grip On The Basics For Kids" will help kids learn these things: how to understand the Bible, knowing God, how to pray, the Holy Spirit, faith, and how to live to the max!

The Father Book: An Instruction Manual: Coming to Grips with Being a Dad

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This book is great

The Father Book: An Instruction Manual: Coming to Grips with Being a Dad
Frank Minirth , Brian Newman , and Paul Warren
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson Inc
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ASIN: 0785281886

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With a little theory and a lot of practical guidance, The Father Book explores what it means to be a father, how fathering has changed in the nineties, and how you as a father can meet many of your children's needs as no one else can. The Father Book offers valuable advice for taking your children through every stage of growth--infancy, preschool, grade school, early adolescence, teens--and addreses those important developmental issues that come up along the way.

Sex--how and when to discuss it Self-image--how to ensure your kids will have a healthy one Social skills--how to be sure your kids will adapt Spirituality--how to best instill important values

Start building a happy and unique relationship with your children today--it's the key to successful fathering.

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This book is great.......2005-07-23

A friend of mine bought this book for my husband, as we are expecting our first in December. I picked it up one day and couldn't put it down. It has so much insight into the physical and emotional relationships with baby and father (and mother), right through to teen years. This will be one at the front of our bookshelf for many years. I came to amazon to order one for our friends who are also expecting. -soon to be mum, Samantha

The "Pre-Stage" Guitar Book - Learn How To Get A Grip On Your First Guitar! - Learn How To Play Guitar!

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Too little info spread across 48 page
Is this book really for First Timers?
A great way to get started on the guitar.....

The "Pre-Stage" Guitar Book - Learn How To Get A Grip On Your First Guitar! - Learn How To Play Guitar!
Chris Lopez
Manufacturer: First Stage Concepts
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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Getting started on the guitar has been made easier than ever! The "Pre-Stage" Guitar Book begins with the very basics about learning how to play a guitar, such as, how to tune the guitar, the note names on the guitar neck fingerboard and how they relate to the musical staff (i.e., the notes you find in sheet music and song books). It then moves on to illustrations of the most commonly played "open" guitar chords, that is, the chords you will be using for as long as you play a guitar.

All the chords are illustrated in bold and easy to understand illustrations, these chords are followed by a uniquely designed chord combination chart that will enable you to mix these chords to form various chord combinations of your own choice without having to guess which chords go with which chords.

The "Pre-Stage" Guitar Book then shows you how to transpose chord combinations to suit your voice by way of a very simple and easy to understand method. This totally new approach will have you making progress in learning how to play guitar right away!

After you have completed all the information contained in this guitar book, you may wish to move on to enhance your guitar playing abilities to The "First Stage" Guitar Book - Learn How to Play Guitar Easily & Quickly! or The "Guitar Book"- For Those Who Have Just Landed on The Planet Earth!, both of these guitar books contain the same guitar learning information, the only difference is that you have a choice of which book cover you would prefer. Practice and patience are the keys to successfully learning how to play the guitar!!

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Too little info spread across 48 page.......2002-01-20

Although this book has some helpful information, the author spreads too little useful information over many pages.

The book starts out with the usual how to hold/tune/strum your guitar and a fret chart. It doesn't "Get Going" (to use the author's term) until page 14A. Here we finally find the usual C-A-G-E-D-Em-Am charts. All in open form. F-G7-Cmaj7 and Fmaj7 are added later. The approach is in a logical sequence; however, there is very little quality information above and beyond labeling those chords that are moveable (they can be transposed anywhere on the neck using the same finger positions), and some very simple progressions.

We get some additional chord charts starting on page 29; however again the information is so spread out that, for the rest of the book, the author takes a four chord diagrams per page approach.

Quick synopsis: The author has a nice approach that's useful for a beginning guitarist; however, he could and should have packed A LOT more useful information into a 48 page book.

Is this book really for First Timers?.......2001-06-02

I really had trouble following this book. I have never played Guitar before and I was utterly confused over what this guy was trying to teach me. If you have no experiance in playing the Guitar then i would suggest looking elsewhere.

A great way to get started on the guitar............1999-09-29

This guitar book is very clear and to the point with bold and easy to understand illustrations. It provides the easiest way to play guitar chords and how to form chord progressions from them. It includes plenty to learn about playing the guitar for anyone making that first go at it.

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