The beginning-level book of this comprehensive method teaches a wide range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, accompaniment techniques, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, a unique approach to voice leading using moveable chord forms, and more.
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Section I
Tuning, the staff, clef sign, common note values
Notes in the first position
Sea to sea (duet)
Note and chord review (upper register)
One, two, three, four (duet)
Rhythm accompaniment
Review (lower register)
Imitation duet
Sharps and flats
Here we go again (duet)
Rhythm accompaniment (bass notes and chords)
Eight notes - counting and picking
Etude no. 1 (duet)
Rests, tied notes, dotted notes
Etude no. 2 (duet)
First solo
Rhythm accompaniment (chord diagrams explained)
Second solo
Etude no. 3 (duet)
Picking etude no. 1 (Right hand development)
Etude
Two, two (duet)
Key of G Major (first position)
Rhythm accompaniment (chord diagrams)
Sixteenth notes
Duet in G
Picking etude no. 2
Another duet in G
Key of F Major (first position)
Rhythm accompaniment (chord diagrams and grand barre)
Duet in F
The triplet
Waltz in F (solo)
Key of of A Minor (first position)
Rhythm accompaniment (chord diagrams)
Pretty pickin' (duet)
Dotted eight and sixteenth notes
Key of E minor (scales in first position)
Rhythm accompaniment (chord diagrams)
Take your pick (duet)
Rhythm accompaniment (movable chord forms)
Chromatic scale (first position)
Speed studies
Key of D Minor (scales in first position)
Rhythm accompaniment
Endurance etude (Picking etude no. 3)
Key of B flat (scales in first position)
Rhythm accompaniment
Duet in B flat
Reverse alternate picking study
Key of D Major (scale in first position)
Duet in D
Rhythm accompaniment
Key of E flat Major (scale in first position)
Movable chord forms
Chord simplification and substitution chart
Picking - a different technique
Dynamic etude no. 4 (duet)
Key of A major (first position)
Duet in A
Duet in E flat
Section 2
Position playing
Major scales (C Major, fingering type 1, second position)
Chord etude no. 1
Etude no. 5 (duet)
Reading studies (C Major, fingering type 1, second position)
Ballad (duet)
Movable chord forms
Chord forms (derivative fingerings)
Rhythm accompaniment - right hand technique
Picking etude no. 4
F Major scale (Fingering type 1A, second position)
Chord forms
Chord etude no. 2
Another duet in F
Reading studies (F Major, fingering type 1A, second position)
Play it pretty (duet)
Chord forms
Triplet study
Speed study - fingering type 1
Speed study - fingering type 1A
G Major scale (fingering type 2, second position)
Dottef eight and sixteenth study
Waltz for two (duet)
Chord forms
Reading studies (G Major, fingering type 2, second position)
Blues in G (duet - muffled effect)
Chord etude no. 3
Rhythm accompaniment - right hand technique (basic latin beat)
Picking etude no. 5
Short and sweet (duet)
D Major scale (fingering type 3, second position)
Chord forms
Melodic rhythm study no. 1 (syncopation)
Chord etude no. 4
Staccato, legato
Reading studies (D Major, fingering type 3)
Dee-oo-ett (duet)
Chord forms
Speed study - fingering type 2
Speed study - fingering type 3
A major scale (fingering type 4, second position)
Chord etude no. 5
Reading studies (A Major, fingering type 4, second position)
Tres sharp (duet)
Sixteenth note study
Chord forms
Speed study - fingering type 4, second position
Chord forms
Second position review
Chord forms Quarter note triplets
Major scales in third position (B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat)
Third position review
Chord forms
Major scales in first position (A flad, D flat)
First position review
Major scales in fourth position (G, D, A, E)
Chord forms
Fourth position review
Chord forms
Author's notes
Index