Content
- Preface
- Working with a Qualified Teacher
- About the Guitar
- The Types of Guitar
- Choosing a Guitar Type
- The Playing Condition of a Guitar
- Care of the Guitar
- Tuning the Guitar
- How Music Is Written
- The Elements of Notation
- Holding the Guitar
- The Footstand
- The A-Frame
- The Shearer Classic Guitar Strap
- The Right Hand
- Names of the Right Hand Fingers
- Placing the Right Hand
- Rest Stroke and Free Stroke
- Initial Care of the Right Hand Nails
- Care of the Left Hand Nails
- Rest Stroke Movement of the Right Hand Fingers
- Recommended Procedure for Practice
- Stopping the Strings at the End of a Piece
- The Open 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Strings
- Movement of the Right Hand Thumb
- Free Stroke with the Thumb
- The Open 4th, 5th, and 6th Strings
- The Dotted Half Note
- Combining Thumb and Fingers
- Alternation
- Exercises for Alternation
- The Left Hand
- Identifying the Left Hand Fingers
- Notes on the E, or 1st, String
- Notes on the B, or 2nd, String
- String Crossing
- Music in Two Parts: Alternation of Fingers with the Thumb in the Bass
- The Tie
- Notes on the G, or 3rd, String
- Care and Use of the Right Hand Nails
- Half Steps and Whole Steps
- The Eighth Note
- Free Stroke with the Fingers
- Placing the Hand for Free Stroke
- Alternation with Fingers in Free Stroke
- Free Stroke on Adjacent Strings
- Alternation Between the Thumb and Fingers
- Half Steps on the G (3rd) String
- Arpeggios
- Sympathetic Motion
- Arpeggios Using Sympathetic Motion
- Notes on the D, or 4th, String
- Tremolo
- Half Steps on the D (4th) String
- Notes on the A, or 5th, String
- Notes on the E, or 6th, String
- The Right Hand in Long Scales
- Two Notes Played Together
- Half Steps on the A (5th) and E (6th) Strings
- Three Notes Played Together
- Suggestions for Most Beneficial Practice
- Pivot Fingers and Guide Fingers
- General Use of the Two Different Stroke Types
- Rest Stroke with the Thumb
- Free Stroke with the Thumb and Fingers
- Four Notes Played Together
- Using Rest Stroke and Free Stroke to Emphasize Melody
- Music of the Masters
- Ferdinand Carulli
- Waltz and Three Variations
- Fernando Sor
- Andante I
- Andante II
- Allegretto I
- Allegretto II
- Mauro Giuliani
- Andantino
- Allegro
- Dionisio Aguado
- Waltz
- Estudio
- Accompaniments for Exercises
- Using the Companion Audio