Duck Soup Guitar Book   $15.95 + $3 shipping

It's a totally unique beginning guitar method... It is so easy that anyone, even a young child, can be singing along with a guitar in minutes! And it sounds so good that top professionals use it on stage and in the studio It requires no previous musical knowledge... You don't need to know how to read music.

All you do is start strumming the one and 2-finger guitar chords, assisted by a partial capo, and you'll be singing along with the 29 familiar songs in this book right away. The "regular" basic chords that guitarists have had to learn for centuries take 3 fingers of the left hand, which is tough even for adults with musical talent. The simplified "Duck Soup" chords are dramatically easier, and sound just as full, and you can usually strum all the strings and get a nice big sound. The Duck Soup book shows 6 different ways to use a partial capo to play easier chords. To play them all you'll need a "universal" partial capo like the Third Hand or the SpiderCapo, but you can do most of them also with the 3-string "Esus" partial capo made by Shubb or Kyser. We sell all of them.

The only limitation is that the partial capo takes advantage of the open string pitches of the guitar, which means you are usually in the keys of E or A. (Though there is a method in the book for playing in C with a universal capo, which is great for classroom use, since so many instruments play in C.) So you might not end up in the right key for your voice for a particular song you want to sing, and it may take some experimenting, and you'll want to have a full capo to combine with the partial capo to get the easy chords pitched in the best key for your needs. We have found that the key of E, which the partial capo likes best, is fine for a 5-year-old to sing along with on most of these songs, as well as may adults.

Everything you need to know about strumming, tuning, singing and following songs is right here. It's a perfect way to start playing the guitar... You'll develop your rhythm and strumming skills, left-hand chording, and confidence as you sing these familiar songs. The skills are sequenced in a natural progression, so that when you finish Duck Soup Guitar you'll be ready for "conventional" guitar programs. It makes learning to play guitar easy and fun... You can play thousands of 3-chord songs with the "Duck Soup" method more easily than the 2 chords that are usually used for beginning guitar.

If you've always wanted to play guitar, this is the time to start. All you need is a guitar, a Third Hand Capo, and this book. There's no frustration, and nothing complicated to do. It is so easy to do that you'll be able to really enjoy making music and singing along right from the very first song. It's "Duck Soup" as they used to say...

Go Tell Aunt Rhody, Hush Little Baby, Down in the Valley, Tom Dooley, London Bridge, The Farmer in the Dell, Ten Little Indians, Clementine, Rock My Soul, Billy Boy, Streets of Laredo, Red River Valley, Sloop John B, She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain, Amazing Grace, Worried Man, Michael Row the Boat Ashore, This Old Man, Little Liza Jane, Old MacDonald, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Angels We Have Heard on High, Deck the Halls,Auld Lang Syne, Skip to My Lou, Shenandoah, Oh Susannah, Camptown Races, Silent Night