title: Enjoy Playing the Guitar Book 1 (Tutors for Guitar) (Bk. 1)
author: Debbie Cracknell
description: Debbie Cracknell studied guitar and piano at Trinity College of Music in London. After graduating with licentiate diplomas in both instruments, she has been teaching as a peripatetic guitar teacher for Buckinghamshire County Council for many years. Her very successful series, Enjoy Playing Guitar, has been followed by many solo and ensemble works aimed mainly at beginners and those in the early grades.
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  **_Table of Contents_ **  
    
  
  [Lesson 1](text00000.html#_Toc324529248)
  
  [Lesson 2](text00000.html#_Toc324529249)
  
  [Lesson 3](text00000.html#_Toc324529250)
  
  [Lesson 4](text00000.html#_Toc324529251)
  
  [Lesson 5](text00000.html#_Toc324529252)
  
    
    
  **_Key_ **  
    
  ![pick green.gif](Image00001.gif) This exercise requires your guitar.  
  ![pick orange.gif](Image00002.gif) This is a key learning point.  
  ![pick red.gif](Image00003.gif) An audio download is available from
  [www.stringsseriesmusic.co.uk](http://www.stringsseriesmusic.co.uk/) **. **  
  
    
  Welcome to _Beginner Guitar book 2_ . This book aims to develop you as a
  guitar player building on the knowledge and skills gained in _Beginner Guitar
  book 1_ .
  
    
  Lesson 1  
  Reading basic notation. Refresher song.  
  **_[Back to Table of Contents](text00000.html#TOC) _ **
  
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  Understanding basic notation_ **  
    
  In book one we mostly dealt with chord sheets and I tried to avoid too many
  instances of rest bars or rep