Alfred's Guitar 101, Book 1
An Exciting Group Course for Adults Who Want to Play Guitar for Fun!
By Martha Masters with Tom Dempsey
Guitar Comb Bound Book
Item: 00-42546
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Description
This comprehensive approach to basic guitar skills includes varied repertoire, theory, detailed instruction about seating and hand position, standard music notation, an introduction to tablature, basic improvisation, and teaches both the pick-style and fingerstyle techniques. Great for college non-music majors, continuing education classes, music dealer in-store programs, and group guitar classes at the middle and high school levels.
Book 1 contains 16 units, each with a variety of repertoire, exercises, and timed tests at the end. Unit 16 provides instructions for playing 11 hit songs. Students can cut out flashcards provided at the back of the book to use for home study. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.
Contents
| Title | |
| Foreword | |
| Technique and Reading Music | |
| Unit 1: Introduction to Reading | |
| Fundamentals of Reading Music: Pitch | |
| Rhythm: Basic Note Values | |
| Time Signatures | |
| Note Review | |
| Unit 2: Guitar Basics & Bass Strings | |
| Terminology | |
| Open Strings on the Guitar | |
| Fingerings | |
| Tuning | |
| Sitting Position | |
| Right-Hand Position: Fingerstyle | |
| Free Stroke with the Thumb | |
| Right-Hand Position: Using a Pick | |
| Notes on the Open Bass Strings | |
| Tips for Learning New Exercises | |
| Pickup Notes | |
| Challenge Exercise | |
| Theory: Intervals on Open Strings 4-6 | |
| Time Test 1 | |
| Guitar Legends: Jimi Hendrix | |
| Unit 3: The Treble Strings | |
| Notes on the Open Treble Strings | |
| Free Stroke with the Fingers | |
| Arpeggios | |
| Reveille | |
| Dynamics | |
| Theory: Intervals on Open Strings 1-6 | |
| Time Test 2 | |
| Guitar Legends: Michael Hedges | |
| Unit 4: Doublestops & Arpeggios | |
| Reading and Playing More Than One Note at a Time | |
| Using Multiple Fingers Simultaneously | |
| Using the Thumb and Fingers Together | |
| Tips for Playing the Following Exercises | |
| Challenge Exercises | |
| Theory: Intervals on Open Strings 1-6 | |
| Guitar Legends: Wes Montgomery | |
| Unit 5: The Left Hand | |
| Left-Hand Position and Technique | |
| Natural Notes on the 1st String | |
| Natural Notes on the 2nd String | |
| Playing on Adjacent Strings | |
| Jingle Bells | |
| Ode to Joy No. 1 | |
| Theory: Intervals on Strings 1 and 2 | |
| Including Fretted Notes | |
| Time Test 3 | |
| Guitar Legends: Joni Mitchell | |
| Unit 6: Melodies & Chords | |
| Natural Notes on the 3rd String | |
| Twinkle Twinkle Little Star | |
| Introduction to Chords | |
| When the Saints Go Marching In | |
| Amazing Grace No. 1 | |
| Theory: Building Chords | |
| Time Test 4 | |
| Guitar Legends: Django Reinhardt | |
| Unit 7: Steps & Accidentals | |
| Whole Steps and Half Steps | |
| Sharps and Flats | |
| Enharmonic Equivalents | |
| Rules of Accidentals | |
| Yankee Doodle Went to Town | |
| Building Chords | |
| Time Test 5 | |
| Guitar Legends: Paco de Lucía | |
| Unit 8: Tablature & Shifting | |
| Reading Tablature | |
| Playing in Higher Positions | |
| Shifting | |
| New and Duplicate Notes on the First Three Strings | |
| Tips for Playing the Following Exercises | |
| Catalan Folksong | |
| Tips for Playing the Following Piece | |
| William Tell Overture | |
| Waltz | |
| Romanza | |
| Theory: Building Chords | |
| Time Test 6 | |
| Guitar Legends: Leo Kottke | |
| Unit 9: Rest Stroke & Scales | |
| Rest Stroke with the Fingers | |
| Catalan Folksong | |
| Alternative Left-Hand Fingering Choices | |
| Challenge Exercise 1 | |
| Challenge Exercise 2 | |
| Theory: Major Scales | |
| Guitar Legends: Chet Atkins | |
| Unit 10: the 4th & 5th Strings | |
| Objectives | |
| Fretted Notes on the 4th String | |
| Amazing Grace No. 2 | |
| Fretted Notes on the 5th String | |
| Tips for Playing the Following Piece | |
| Andante | |
| Theory: Major Scales | |
| Time Test 7 | |
| Guitar Legends: Andrés Segovia | |
| Unit 11: Key Signatures | |
| Key Signatures | |
| Ode to Joy No. 2 | |
| Tips for Playing the Following Pieces | |
| Waltz | |
| Can-Can | |
| Minuet | |
| Theory: Minor Scales | |
| Guitar Legends: Stevie Ray Vaughan | |
| Unit 12: The 6th String | |
| Fretted Notes on the 6th String | |
| In the Style of Pipeline | |
| Sorcerer's Apprentice | |
| Melody from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony | |
| Waltz | |
| Catalan Folksong | |
| Tips for Playing the Following Piece | |
| Melodie | |
| Peer Gynt Suite | |
| Allegretto | |
| Study Piece 1 | |
| Ejercicio | |
| Contredanse | |
| Theory: Minor Scales | |
| Time Test 8 | |
| Guitar Legends: B. B. King | |
| Unit 13: Slurs | |
| Slurs | |
| Concerto in D | |
| Waltz | |
| Tips for Playing This Piece | |
| Etude, Opus 60, No. 15 | |
| Theory: Major and Minor Chords | |
| Guitar Legends: Eric Clapton | |
| Guitar Fingerboard Chart | |
| Chords and Songs | |
| Unit 14: Strumming | |
| Sitting Position | |
| Strumming and Pick Technique | |
| Unit 15: Chords & Songs | |
| Reading Chord Charts | |
| Tips for Playing Chords | |
| New Chords | |
| Strumming | |
| More Strumming Practice | |
| Strategies for Learning Songs | |
| America: A Horse with No Name | |
| Tips for Playing This Song | |
| Bob Marley: Stir It Up | |
| Tips for Playing This Song | |
| Snow Patrol: Run | |
| Tips for Playing This Song | |
| The Eagles: Take It Easy | |
| Using a Capo | |
| Tom Petty: Free Fallin' | |
| Tips for Playing This Song | |
| Maroon 5: Payphone | |
| Tips for Playing This Song | |
| Learning to Play and Sing | |
| Fleetwood Mac/Dixie Chicks: Landslide | |
| Tips for Playing This Song | |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama | |
| Tips for Playing This Song | |
| Barre Chords | |
| Ben E. King: Stand By Me | |
| Tips for Playing This Song | |
| Sheryl Crow: Strong Enough | |
| Tips for Playing This Song | |
| Coldplay: Viva La Vida | |
| Tips for Playing This Song | |
| John Lennon: Imagine | |
| Tips for Playing This Song | |
| Improvisation | |
| Unit 16: Improv Basics | |
| Working Through the Improvisation Material | |
| Blues for Three | |
| Blues for Three | |
| Note Collection for Improvisation | |
| Rhythmic Variations for Improvisation Line Shifting Tips | |
| Additional Tips to Make Improvisation More Interesting | |
| Blues in A | |
| Blues in A | |
| Time Test Answers | |
| Chords Introduced in This Book | |
| Flashcards |
Additional Information
| Series: | 101 Series |
| Author: | Martha Masters, Tom Dempsey |
| Instrument: | Guitar |
| Format: | Comb Bound Book |
| Page Count: | 168 |
| Item Number: | 00-42546 |
| ISBN 10: | 1-4706-1131-7 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-1-4706-1131-6 |
| UPC: | 038081475608 |
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