Alfred's Basic Guitar Method, Complete (Third Edition)
The Most Popular Method for Learning How to Play
By Morty Manus and Ron Manus
Guitar Book & Online Video/Audio/Software
Item: 00-44749
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Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over five million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. Now included are blues, country, folk, jazz, and rock styles, plus more pop songs! Videos are available for the visual learner, and correlating theory, chord, and pop books provide everything you need from one complete method. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Guitar Method---the first and best choice for today's beginning guitar students.
The Complete Edition includes Books 1, 2 & 3 of Alfred's Basic Guitar in one convenient volume. It begins with the basics like how to hold your guitar and read music and takes you all the way to advanced playing techniques.
For the first time, companion audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed online are included with the book, so you'll have everything you need in one place. The online media is newly updated and features video lessons, MP3 audio tracks, as well as TNT 2 software which lets you slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos for customized practice.
The Complete Edition includes Books 1, 2 & 3 of Alfred's Basic Guitar in one convenient volume. It begins with the basics like how to hold your guitar and read music and takes you all the way to advanced playing techniques.
For the first time, companion audio tracks that can be downloaded or streamed online are included with the book, so you'll have everything you need in one place. The online media is newly updated and features video lessons, MP3 audio tracks, as well as TNT 2 software which lets you slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos for customized practice.
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Contents
| Title | |
| BOOK 1 | |
| THE PARTS OF YOUR GUITAR | |
| HOW TO HOLD YOUR GUITAR | |
| THE RIGHT HAND | |
| THE LEFT HAND | |
| HOW TO TUNE YOUR GUITAR TO A KEYBOARD | |
| GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH MUSIC | |
| THE FIRST STRING E | |
| Playing with E, F, G | |
| More | |
| Still More | |
| No More | |
| SOUND-OFF: HOW TO COUNT TIME | |
| THE SECOND STRING B | |
| Two-String Rock | |
| Merry-Go-Round | |
| Beautiful Brown Eyes | |
| Guitar Rock | |
| Jingle Bells | |
| Alouette | |
| THE THIRD STRING G | |
| Au clair de la lune | |
| Three-String Rock | |
| Largo | |
| Back to the '50s | |
| Repeat Signs | |
| Aura Lee | |
| INTRODUCING CHORDS | |
| Chord Study No. 1 | |
| Chord Study No. 2 | |
| THREE-STRING C CHORD | |
| Ode to Joy | |
| Quarter Rest | |
| Rock 'n' Rhythm | |
| THREE-STRING G7 CHORD | |
| Two-Chord Rock | |
| Love Somebody | |
| THREE-STRING G CHORD | |
| Rockin' with G & C | |
| Down in the Valley | |
| Oh, Susanna | |
| THE FOURTH STRING D | |
| Old MacDonald Had a Farm | |
| Hold Sign (Fermata) | |
| Reuben, Reuben | |
| Common Time | |
| G Whiz | |
| Bohemian Folk Song | |
| Good Night, Ladies | |
| Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two) | |
| FOUR-STRING G & G7 CHORDS | |
| Laughing Polka | |
| THE FIFTH STRING A | |
| Volga Boatmen | |
| Peter Gray | |
| Low-Down Rock | |
| Liebesträum | |
| Boogie Style | |
| INTRODUCING HIGH A | |
| Rockin' in Dorian Mode | |
| The Riddle Song | |
| INCOMPLETE MEASURES | |
| A-tisket, A-tasket | |
| The Yellow Rose of Texas | |
| THE SIXTH STRING E | |
| Down Low | |
| Bottom to Top | |
| TEMPO SIGNS | |
| Three-Tempo Rock | |
| The Blue Danube Waltz | |
| BASS-CHORD ACCOMPANIMENT | |
| Can-Can (duet) | |
| DYNAMICS | |
| Echo Waltz | |
| SIGNS OF SILENCE | |
| The Desert Song (duet) (Study in Counting) | |
| Echo Rock | |
| She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain | |
| FOUR-STRING C CHORD | |
| Ties | |
| When the Saints Go Marching In (duet or trio) | |
| MORE BASS-CHORD ACCOMPANIMENTS | |
| Chiapanecas (duet) | |
| EIGHTH NOTES | |
| Happy Birthday to You | |
| Eighth-Note Bounce | |
| Walkin' Bass Rock | |
| More Dynamic Signs | |
| Pachelbel's Canon (duet) | |
| SHARPS, FLATS, AND NATURALS | |
| The Chromatic Scale | |
| Chromatic Rock | |
| My Melancholy Baby | |
| Over the Rainbow | |
| FOUR-STRING D7 CHORD | |
| Four-Beat Blues | |
| Amazing Grace | |
| Rockin' the Bach | |
| Buffalo Gals | |
| THE MAJOR SCALE | |
| KEY SIGNATURES | |
| EIGHTH RESTS | |
| Eighth Rest Exercise No. 1 | |
| Eighth Rest Exercise No. 2 | |
| Eighth Rest Exercise No. 3 | |
| Bill Bailey | |
| La Bamba | |
| DOTTED QUARTER NOTES | |
| Auld Lang Syne | |
| Singin' in the Rain | |
| GUITAR FINGERBOARD CHART | |
| BOOK 2 | |
| KEY OF C MAJOR | |
| Rakes of Mallow | |
| Home on the Range | |
| TUNES THAT TEACH TECHNIC NO. 1 | |
| Variation on Little Brown Jug | |
| Variation on Jim Crack Corn | |
| BASS SOLOS WITH CHORD ACCOMPANIMENT | |
| Meet Me in St Louis, Louis | |
| KEY OF G MAJOR | |
| Tiritomba | |
| The Old Chisholm Trail (duet) | |
| Simple Gifts (duet) | |
| This Land Is Your Land (duet) | |
| TUNES THAT TEACH TECHNIC NO. 2 | |
| Margarita | |
| Shortnin' Bread | |
| Red River Valley (duet) | |
| America (duet) | |
| SYNCOPATION | |
| The Entertainer (duet) | |
| KEY OF A MINOR | |
| Waves of the Danube | |
| 6/8 TIME | |
| Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes | |
| CC Rider | |
| TUNES THAT TEACH TECHNIC NO. 3 | |
| For He's a Jolly Good Fellow | |
| Funiculi, Funicula | |
| The Irish Washerwoman | |
| BASS-CHORD ACCOMPANIMENT: KEY OF C | |
| The Yellow Rose of Texas (duet) | |
| BASS-CHORD ACCOMPANIMENT: KEY OF G | |
| Oh! Susanna (duet) | |
| THE KEY OF D MAJOR | |
| TUNES THAT TEACH TECHNIC NO. 4 | |
| Two Etudes in D | |
| Joy to the World | |
| Marines' Hymn (duet) | |
| THE DOTTED 8TH & 16TH NOTE RHYTHM | |
| Toreador Song (from Carmen) | |
| Straight Jig | |
| Worried Man Blues | |
| Boogie Blues | |
| Careless Love (duet) | |
| ALTERNATING BASS NOTES | |
| I Ride an Old Paint | |
| ALTERNATING BASS NOTES IN THE KEY OF G | |
| Mary Ann (duet) | |
| TRIPLETS | |
| Triumphal March (from Aida) | |
| Beautiful Dreamer | |
| Sweet Genevieve | |
| Spanish Triplets | |
| KEY OF E MINOR | |
| Etude in E Minor | |
| Joshua Fit the Battle | |
| KEY OF F MAJOR | |
| The Water Is Wide | |
| Alphabet Song (Theme and Variation) | |
| ALTERNATING BASS NOTES IN THE KEY OF F | |
| Oh, My Darling Clementine (duet) | |
| Shave and a Haircut | |
| Alexander's Ragtime Band (solo or duet) | |
| St Louis Blues (duet) | |
| Guitar Boogie | |
| BOOK 3 | |
| CHORD EXERCISES | |
| SIXTEENTH NOTES | |
| Mixin' It Up | |
| The Happy Sailor | |
| Variations on a Square Dance Tune | |
| Etude in D | |
| ARPEGGIOS | |
| East Side, West Side | |
| The Man on the Flying Trapeze | |
| Scarborough Fair (duet) | |
| THE DOO-WOP BALLAD | |
| My Angel Baby (duet) | |
| KEY OF A MAJOR | |
| TUNES THAT TEACH TECHNIC NO. 5 | |
| Scale Etude in A Major | |
| Arpeggio Etude | |
| Hard, Ain't It Hard | |
| Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here | |
| SIXTEENTH NOTE STUDIES IN A MAJOR | |
| HAMMER-ONS | |
| John Hardy | |
| Old Blue | |
| CALYPSO | |
| Hey Lolly Lolly | |
| The Sloop "John B" | |
| KEY OF D MINOR | |
| Sicilian Tarantella | |
| SIXTEENTH NOTES AND 6/8 TIME | |
| The House of the Rising Sun (duet) | |
| KEY OF E MAJOR | |
| Finger Exercise in E | |
| The Blue Tail Fly | |
| USING PASSING NOTES IN THE BASS | |
| DIMINISHED 7TH CHORDS | |
| You Tell Me Your Dream | |
| PULL-OFFS | |
| Country Dance | |
| Blues in A | |
| THE POLKA (DUET) | |
| GRACE NOTES | |
| Amazing Grace Notes | |
| Colonel Bogey | |
| AUGMENTED CHORDS | |
| SLIDES | |
| Slidin' Around (duet) | |
| TUNES THAT TEACH TECHNIC NO. 6 | |
| Devil's Dream Hornpipe | |
| Our Katie | |
| Abide with Me (duet) | |
| BEGUINE | |
| Guitarra Romana (duet) | |
| BENDS | |
| Bending the Blues | |
| Pistol Pete | |
| COUNTERPOINT | |
| Simple Melody (trio) | |
| TUNES THAT TEACH TECHNIC NO. 7 | |
| Onyx Club Hop | |
| Just Lopin' Along | |
| Jingle for a Sunny Day |
Additional Information
| Series: | Alfred's Basic Guitar Library |
| Author: | Morty Manus, Ron Manus |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
| Format: | Book & Online Video/Audio/Software |
| Page Count: | 152 |
| Item Number: | 00-44749 |
| ISBN 10: | 1-4706-3140-7 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-1-4706-3140-6 |
| UPC: | 038081510477 |
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