A Fun and Comprehensive Beginning Method Featuring Rock, Blues, and Jazz Styles. Composed by Amanda Monaco and Rich Hinman. Guitar Method or Supplement; Method/Instruction. The Total Guitarist. Blues; Jazz; Rock. Book and CD. 128 pages. Alfred Music #00-39381. Published by Alfred Music (AP.39381).
ISBN 9780739090671. UPC: 038081441474. English.
The Total Beginning Guitarist teaches everything a novice needs to know to start playing rock, jazz, and blues guitar right away. Even the music lover who has never held a guitar will be playing easy chords and songs immediately. This user-friendly method covers subjects ranging from chord strumming and fingerstyle to basic lead guitar and improvisation. The warm and encouraging style of the authors will motivate even the most casual hobbyist. With a variety of musical styles and a comprehensive, engaging, and thorough approach to learning the guitar, this book & CD kit provides everything a new guitarist will need to begin a fun and fulfilling musical journey.
A Fun and Comprehensive Beginning Method Featuring Rock, Blues, and Jazz Styles. Composed by Amanda Monaco and Rich Hinman. Guitar Method or Supplement; Method/Instruction. The Total Guitarist. Blues; Jazz; Rock. Book and CD. 128 pages. Alfred Music #00-39381. Published by Alfred Music (AP.39381).
ISBN 9780739090671. UPC: 038081441474. English.
The Total Beginning Guitarist teaches everything a novice needs to know to start playing rock, jazz, and blues guitar right away. Even the music lover who has never held a guitar will be playing easy chords and songs immediately. This user-friendly method covers subjects ranging from chord strumming and fingerstyle to basic lead guitar and improvisation. The warm and encouraging style of the authors will motivate even the most casual hobbyist. With a variety of musical styles and a comprehensive, engaging, and thorough approach to learning the guitar, this book & CD kit provides everything a new guitarist will need to begin a fun and fulfilling musical journey.
Riff Rock
Stop-Time
Improvising a Solo
Improvising on the 1st and 2nd Strings
A One and-a Two and-a
Improvising on the 3rd and 4th Strings
Song for Ewe
Improvising on the 5th and 6th Strings
Dotted Quarter Notes
Ooh La La
The Major Scale and Its Use in Improvisation
C Major Scale Etude
Song of Major
Basic Music theory
The Musical Alphabet
Half and Whole Steps
Enharmonic Equivalents
The Musical Alphabet on the Guitar
More on the Major Scale
How Chords Are Built
Keys
I, IV, V---The Primary Chords
More Power Chords
Root-6 Power Chords
Simple Riff
Root-5 Power Chords
Swamp Thing
Dissatisfied
Basic Lead Guitar
The Minor Pentatonic Scale
A Minor Pentatonic Solo
Comping
Turnaround-a-Roo
Turnaround-a-Two
More Chords and Chord Progressions
The ii-V-I Progression
The I-vi-ii-V Progression
The iii-vi-ii-V Progression
Soloing Over a 12-Bar Blues---Revisited
A Minor Blues Too
Fingerstyle
Sunday Picnic
Scarborough Fair---Melody
Scarborough Fair---Fingerstyle Accompaniment
Moveable Chords
Barre Chords
The E-Form Barres
The A-Form Barres
Lessons Learned
READING CHORDS
Intervals
Chord Theory
Major and Minor Triads
Diminished and Augmented Triads
7 Chords
Extended Chords
Chord Encyclopedia
Guitar Fretboard Chart
Conclusion
About the Authors
Introduction
Buying a Guitar
Parts Of The Guitar
HOLDING THE GUITAR
Two Positions for Playing the Guitar
Left-Hand Technique
Right-Hand Technique
Tuning the Guitar
String Names and Numbers
Methods of Tuning
First Chords and First Songs
Time Signatures, Measures, and Beats
In Shallow Water
The Big Switch
Freddie's Bounce
The C Chord and a New Rock Song
Three-in-One
The 12-Bar Blues
12-Bar Blues
Two New Chords and Another 12-Bar Blues
Another Three-Chord Tune
12-Bar Blues in A
Your Next Two Chords: CMaj7 and Amin7
CMaj7-Amin7-Dmin-G7 (or, How to Play 80% of All Jazz Tunes)
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