Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Mastering Guitar Number of pages : 56 The Mastering the Guitar Class Method Short Course has been written for use in guitar classes which last for nine weeks or less. Students will receive, in a condensed form, the same high quality, sequential material contained in the Mastering the Guitar Class Method. Although designed for a shorter course, great care has been taken to provide the students with a solid foundation in technique and the fundamentals of playing guitar. Contents include: holding position, chords, strum patterns, tuning, reading single note solos in tablature and standard notation, and ensembles all in a variety of music styles. The book also contains a section on playing the blues and writing original blues lyrics. Fifty five lesson plans are available on line at melbay.com and quizzes will also be made available. This text is ideal for the exploratory course and will provide the perfect springboard for further study. Checkout the Short Course Lesson Plans on the GuitarPeople Teachers Site.> View the Teacher Supplement and Lesson Plans Free PDF

Tips to Make You a More Skillful Player in No Time-Everyone wants to get there faster and easier. This guide from Fred Sokolow features 29 tips that save time and make you a more skillful Guitar player in any musical genre. Tip topics include: Sliding Major Pentatonics Soloing Off Chord Shapes Power Chords The 12-Bar Blues Form Turnarounds Simplifying Chords Finding the Relative Minor How to Use the Capo and so much more. These shortcuts will improve your playing and your understanding of music and the Guitar overnight. The book includes access to online demonstration audio tracks for download orstreaming.

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Short Term Course-The Mastering the Guitar Class Method Short Course has been written for use in Guitar classes which last for nine weeks or less. Students will receive in a condensed form the same high quality sequential material containedin the Mastering the Guitar Class Method.Although designed for a shorter course great care has been taken to provide the students with a solid foundation in technique and the fundamentals of playing Guitar.Contentsinclude: holding position chords strum patterns tuning reading single note solos in tablature and standard notation and ensembles all in a variety of music styles. The book also contains a section on playing the blues andwriting original blues lyrics. This text is ideal for the exploratory course and will provide the perfect springboard for further study. Includes access to online audio and a PDF containing fifty-five lesson plans.

Guitar players are always trying to figure out the trademark tricks of their heroes. Now on of the most influential acoustic guitarists of all time lets viewers in on his secrets. This workshop DVD shows guitar fans valuable inside tips on playing techniques tunings and other guitar secrets. Songs include: Short Order - Lay This Body Down - Single Girl - St. James Infirmary - Shortnin' Bread - The Last Steam Engine. 57 minutes.

These 12 short preludes prepare the way for playing contemporary guitar music by introducing several of the various means of artistic expression used in modern guitar music such as varying metres different types of pizzicato rasgueado and harmonics. The 12 short pieces are in ascending order of difficulty ranging from easy to intermediate-advanced. The total playing time is approx. 10 minutes.

Complete Warm-Up for Classical Guitar contains short and concise exercises for use in a warm-up before practice or performance and for general technical advancement. The book is divided into foursections: I Arpeggios II Scales III Tremolo and IV Slurs. Each section contains a description of the exercises and general instructions on how to play them. The exercises are intended for guitarists who are looking for a simplewarm-up that does not require learning many complicated Etudes exercises or routines. In this book only one Etude is used for a variety of arpeggio and tremolo patterns. The scale warm-ups are based on a two-octave one-position scale that is shifted up and down the fretboard and a simple one-position chromatic scale. The pull-off and hammer-on slurs are combined into one exercise to save time. This same routine when practised with themetronome gradually increasing the tempo can also double for technical work. With the exception of one chromatic scale exercise the rest are on closed strings. Besides being able to move the scale up and down the fretboard thefirst finger can be barred. This will increase the left hand difficulty and improve the left hand position and strength.There is close to an hour's worth of material if all the exercises are played with all of theirvariations at different tempos. Not everything needs to be played everyday so the warm-up session can be as long as desired or as short as time allows.

Par SAINZ DE LA MAZA EDUARDO. Platero Y Yo (Platero and I) is a suite of eight short works inspired by a set of poems that Nobel Prize-winning author Juan Ramón Jiménez. wrote about a donkey, and his home region of Andalusia. The words of the poems are to be read over theperformance of the witty, modern Andalusian-inspired music. It is a charming work that has performed and recorded many times. Composer and Guitarist Eduardo Sainz De La Maza was a twentieth century Spanish composer, brother of the better known ReginoSainz De La Maza. This suite is his most famous work, along with Campanas del Alba. Platero Y Yo (Platero and I) is a suite of eight short works inspired by a set of poems that Nobel Prize-winning author Juan Ramó n Jimenez. wrote about a donkey, and his home region of Andalusia. The words of the poems are to be read over the performance of the witty, modern Andalusian-inspired music. It is a charming work that has performed and recorded many times. Composer and Guitarist Eduardo Sainz De La Maza was a twentieth century Spanish composer, brother of the better known Regino Sainz De La Maza. This suite is his most famous work, along with Campanas del Alba. / Rép Classique / Répertoire / Guitare

These twenty-one studies present a variety of melodic themes composed to provide enhancement of technique. I wanted to write short playable pieces designed to build fluency and coordination between the left and right hand. Ialso wanted these technical studies to contain melodic elements sufficient to allow them to be used as short pieces in concert or recital.As valuable as scale practice can be it can also be tedious. I wanted these studiesto be fun to play. I also utilized a variety of major and minor keys and composed the pieces specifically to explore the contrast between open and fingered strings. Finally these studies will help enable the guitarist to movefreely between various positions on the fingerboard. In Notation and Tablature.

This book provides a complete introduction to using the DADGAD tuning for fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar. Understanding DADGAD For Fingerstyle Guitar systematically explores the tuning starting with simple chords and scale patterns ultimately showing how DADGAD can be used to play in nearly any key and in many different musical styles. Topics include moveable and open-string chords and scales intervals theharp-effect common chord progressions in DADGAD and more all in the context of either short musical examples or complete tunes.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 48 Easy Way to Guitar is a popular, easy to understand children's course designed to give the student a thorough grounding in note reading and solo performance. Chord playing is introduced gradually, utilizing simplified chords. Creative graphics, color, and short pieces in big-note format make this an appealing series for the young guitar student. A few easy duets are included in each book for performance with a teacher or a friend. Standard notation only. CD included.

Greatest Hits of 1950-2020. Revisit the biggest hits from each decade with this anthology of pop classics. A short introduction to each decade takes you through the collection where each song is presented for piano, voice and guitar with full lyrics and guitar chord boxes.