Guitar Chord Blocks by Uncle Goose (Age 2+)
Toss your tattered chord poster and trash your smartphone guitar tabs app, because these sturdy chord cubes give you the basic tablature you’ll need to play all the hits
I come from a musical family, so it was only natural that I play a lot of instruments. My first instrument I learned to play was the piano. My parents inherited an old player piano that was somehow ‘fixed’ to just be a piano (we did find coins and things inside from the days people would purchase songs to ‘hear’ the piano play.) I took lessons from a friend’s mom and it was fun. However, I was always drawn to the guitar. My mom played, as do many in my family, so I decided to learn. At the time my mom had an old Kay guitar with the fretboard extremely far from the strings (Ouch!) so I thought, “I’m just not any good with this,” until I discovered that with a real and better quality guitar, learning didn’t have to be so ‘OUCHY’!
I wanted to learn chords for the simple fact that rhythm guitar is SO much easier to write songs to and sing at the same time. I guess I felt like I had a lot to say and just wanted to learn how to PLAY the right way. My mom, who taught herself, had a book on guitar chords. I DEVOURED that book. I learned the entire major chords, then minor and then…….everything else until I discovered POWER CHORDS. But learning and reading guitar chord sheet music is SIMPLE. In fact, it wasn’t like piano at all (Every Good Boy Does Fine (EGBDF) and All Cows Eat Grass (ACEG) was how I learned the notes on sheet music.
Guitar Chords are so much easier to read because it TELLS you exactly where you hold your fingers on the fret board. For example:
There are six strings on a guitar and go into order from top to bottom. How did I learn the whole notes on each string. I was told to learn by learning, “Every Average Druggie Gets Busted Eventually (EADGBE)”. Hilarious! But, it worked.
The chord sheet music then shows you which strings on the fret to hold down (example in major A you hold your first finger on the D string on the third string, second fret.) Follow? It’s pretty easy when you start to learn. I also have taught rhythm to lots of people, my brother included, through learning SONGS that they love and can easily play. I learned ‘Blowing in the Wind’, a Bob Dylan song first and took off from there. Even with my unusually small hands (so I sometimes use my pinky finger when I shouldn’t..but it still works..) it came fast. I couldn’t get enough and wrote songs starting at 14 on guitar with ease. So, while I always had the ‘bones’ of playing guitar, when I put it together with writing songs, it made more sense. Why play someone’s song when you an write your own? My lovely thought process but it also helped me get out feelings and emotions as a teen.
Momma’s Bacon Goes Electric at Age 14! Yes, that is a G Major chord!
The BRAND NEW Guitar Chord Cubes by Uncle Goose (currently available for shipping in December and now available on UncommonGoods.com) are six-sided cubes with all blocks of chords made on of 9 basswood cubes that includes 52 chord diagrams in major, minor and dominant 7th, with open and barre configurations and the associated sharps and flats. chords with all the major and minor chords on each side. AMAZING. You can let your little ones explore and play with blocks while also being able to TEACH music.
How?
The perfect V-shaped stand included in the set helps avoid neck strain by creating the optimal viewing angle while learning to play new chords.
Wowsa!
If you are a musical family, rhythm guitar wanna-be, or just have a cool block set for kids, this IS the perfect gift. The gift of music always keeps on giving and I still write and play songs to this day. Uncle Goose continues to surprise me with their innovate blocks (did I tell you they are a MI company?) and I love supporting their lovely wooden blocks that also serve double duty as awesome learning tools. My oldest is also into playing guitar (I recommend using a classical guitar for beginnings – nylon strings are so much easier for little fingers) and eventually progress where she can play my old Odessa (her middle name) Dixon, my first real acoustic guitar that I have kept by my side since a teen. It is hers for the taking, presuming she wants to learn and falls in love with guitar as much as me.
Guitar Chord Blocks by Uncle Goose (Age 2+)
List Price: $ 35.00
Momma's Bacon 