Enjoy Playing Guitar Tutor 1

Description

This revised edition of Enjoy Playing Guitar: Tutor Book 1 is the ultimate resource for all beginner guitarists. It introduces the basics of classical guitar playing and musical concepts through an approach that is clear, progressive, and carefully paced. It includes tailored solos, duets, and trios in a range of styles, and it develops musicianship through activities in improvisation, playing by ear, and the art of accompanying. To consolidate learning, there are helpful reminders and quizzes covering musical knowledge, plus a CD with over 70 play-along tracks. Encouraging self-directed learning outside as well as during lessons, this is the perfect book for today’s aspiring player.

Contents:

• The basics
• Parts of the guitar
• Sitting position
• Right-hand position
• Left-hand position
• The rest stroke
• Strings and frets
• The first string
• 4/4 time
• Two-Note Hop
• Two-Note Jump
• March
• A Stroll
• Jogging
• Counting: Crotchets and minims
• Conversation
• 3/4 time
• Waltz
• The second string
• Bees and Cees
• I. C. A. B.
• Bees and Dees
• Solo
• Copycat
• Echo
• Counting rests
• Tunes using the first two strings
• Slow Train
• Go, tell Aunt Nancy
• Two into One
• Indigo Blues
• Counting: Dotted minims and semibreves
• Little Bird
• Jingle Bells
• Old Time Minuet
• The third string
• Yankee Doodle
• Au Clair de la Lune
• Good King Wenceslas;
• Dance
• The open bass strings
• The Low Down
• The Russian Girl (duet)
• Barcarolle
• Open bass strings plus treble notes
• Thumb, Finger, Finger
• Serenade
• Inca Dawn
• Summary of all the open strings
• Introducing quavers
• Happy Birthday
• London’s Burning;
• Frère Jacques
• Oh Sinner Man!
• A March for Two Guitars
• Home on the Range
• The Tie
• Summer Waltz
• The free stroke
• The right-hand fingers
• Open-string exercises
• Free-stroke tunes using fingered notes
• Vals Triste
• Theme and Variation
• Introducing F sharp
• G Major Scale
• Scale Study
• (Meet) the Flintstones
• El Coqui (The Tree-Frog)
• The Key Signature
• Andante in G
• Waltz (F. Carulli)
• Fourth-string notes
• Camelot
• A Blues Duet
• 6/4 time
• The Natural
• The Ash Grove
• Shalom Chaverim
• Dreaming
• Introducing G sharp
• Invention
• Study in A Minor
• Pony Trek
• The Cossacks
• Malagueña
• Dotted rhythms
• Auld Lang Syne
• The First Nowell
• The Lutenist
• 6/8 time
• Row, row, row your boat
• Irish Jig
• Country Jig
• Introducing C sharp and B flat
• Manhattan Nights
• Oasis
• Cowboy Blues
• Turkish Dance
• Fifth-string notes
• Song of the Volga Boatmen
• The Wasp
• C Major Scale
• Silent Night
• Playing thumb and fingers together
• The Russian Girl (solo)
• Summer is
• Icumen in

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