How to play the guitar and some history

To begin with something is difficult, and also it's for guitarplaying.
It's nice to have someone in the family, or a friend to teach you,
otherwise you've to buy a course, or follow lessons, or as these
days there are magazines with cd / cdrom included, to practise with
Hifi set or computer.

You should begin with a cheap guitar, the strings are a lot higher above the fingerboard than an expensive guitar, but the advantage
in this is, that your fingers get used to it, aswell solo- or rhythmguitar, and lateron you can play an expensive guitar mucht better.
Take classes in course, or take lessons, and practise daily one hour
minimum.
When it's going better, make a practising schedule, inwhich various
kinds of music and fingerpicking technics and repeats it regular.
After some time playing will be better . . . . .

I myself did the practising in the 1960's with a Klavarmusica course of Klavarscribo.
A very good course with excel-
lent accompaniment, in guitar-
diagrams and sheetmusic.
After that in playing music to- gether with a taperecorder and
following it.
Also buying books about the
chorddiagrams, learning how to
play the bass, tips and trics, as
THE EGG OF CO was one of
the things, you did . . . . .

When after some time you did play the guitar better, than the mu-
sic of the Shadows was all the way. In the 1960's it was the most mu-
sical band there was. There also were many musicbooks for this kind
of guitarplaying.

The books above were found back after many years in my lumber-
room and attic.
Ilja Croon is a stranger in this chapter, but at the end I did play the
bassguitar as well. The clearly filling heavy sound of a bass did
fascinate me, again and again . . . . .

The Egg of Co was written by Co Atpress of The Down Town Jazz
Band and there also was a revolving disc belonging to the book, but
unfortunately it has been lost.
In the book, a collectors item now, are many tips and trics for guitars
and translations to other music instruments.

Still The Shadows were not the only guitargroup, there were many
other groups/bands following in The Shadows track, such as:
TheTornado's, The Spotnicks, The Riats, Johnny & The Hurricanes,
The Jumping Jewels, Johnny & His Cellar Rockets and many others.

Inumarable groups / bands were copying this sound in the UK:
The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds (birthplace of Eric Clapton), The
Kinks, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Tremeloes, The Honeycomb,
The Hollies, The Animals, The Swinging Bluejeans, The Fortunes,
Them (Van Morrison), Direstraits (Mark Knopfler), eo.

In Holland we got: The Outsiders, Q65, The Motions, The Bintangs
(still existing), The Sandy Coast, The Teeset, The Golden Earrings
(still existing), Bzn, The Cats, After Tea, Leftside, George Baker Se- lection, Les Baroques, The Shoes, eo.

The music these days owns the sound and how to play to groups,
such as The beatles and The Rolling Stones together with the other
guitarists mentioned above.
In one word The Beatles and The Rolling Stones are THE BANDS of the 20th century.
The Stones still are together, but with a small changing in the group
and The Beatles splitted in 1970's officially and it was NOT the fault
of John Lennon, as rumors were told, but Paul McCartney, and it's pointing to an other manager, the follow up for Brian Epstein (died
in 1967).

Paul McCartney of The Beatles became the biggest of all (some-
how not fair against John Lennon, murdered in December 1980 by
Mark Chapman, but missing the growing as an artist between 1980 -
2001, inwhich Paul McCartney has the advantage from all things) and
finally won the title of Millennium Componist of the 20th Century.

Then in 1962 there's a revolution in
musical entertainement. Four boys from Liverpool introduces a new sound:

THE BEAT YEAH YEAH