Preparatory Guide for Classical Guitar & Music Theory

By Eric Charles Mokotoff

40 In-depth Lessons that take you from the basics of learning to read traditional notation through a complete and detailed understanding of scales, key signatures, chord structure, inversions, music theory and analysis. This is a must for the serious student who wants to understand music and how it pertains to the classical guitar. It?s not enough to play the guitar, you need to understand the language of music and theory and how it all comes together on this incredible instrument.

ISBN 9781619118218.

The aim of this book is to gather in one place a compendium of techniques specific to the classical guitar. Each technique has a written explanation, preliminary exercises and two original compositions, providing the opportunity to use the techniques in a musical context. --Steve Marsh

Mel Bay Publications was founded on Mel's simple pretext of finding a need, and filling it. Mel Bay author, Steve Marsh, continues in that tradition with the publication of The Anthology of Classical Guitar Techniques, a highly original concept that fills a distinct need in the guitar study repertoire. Graded from lower intermediate to higher intermediate in difficulty, this anthology avoids fundamental skills known to most beginners and goes straight to intermediate-level techniques such as: arpeggio, barre, campanella, glissando, harmonics, pizzicato, rapid scales, rasgueado, tambour, tremolo, vibrato, and more. Each of the 32 techniques is illuminated with preliminary studies and two original compositions, all written in standard notation only. If you are ready to take the next step with the classical guitar, this book will improve your technique and musicianship in general, increase your ability to listen to yourself critically, and so lead to more productive practice sessions.