ALFRED TEACH Yourself To Play Classical Guitar By Nathaniel Gunod (book/cd/dvd)

Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Classical Guitar

Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Classical Guitar Now!

By Nathaniel Gunod
Guitar Book, CD & DVD
Level: Beginner
Item: 00-42697

Learn to play classical guitar and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred Music. Beginners of all ages with no prior experience can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Classical Guitar begins with the fundamentals of the classical guitar. You will start by learning about parts of the guitar, how to hold and tune it, caring for your instrument, and standard music notation and TAB. You will then move right along to playing different notes, scales, and great classical pieces. Important techniques are taught such as the free and rest strokes, right- and left-hand positions, sitting properly, efficient finger movement, and more. The DVD includes video lessons and performances for everything in the book, and also includes the TNT 2 audio player that lets you adjust the tempo, and isolate parts. The CD features audio performances of every exercise and song. It plays in your CD player or you can download the tracks to your PC. The DVD and CD feature internationally renowned classical guitarist and educator Martha Masters. Upon completion of the book, you will be able to read music and play beautiful classical pieces by some of the great classical masters, including Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, and Scott Joplin! Be your own teacher, and let Alfred Music be your resource every step of the way.

Title

• Introduction
• Parts of the Guitar
• The Classical Guitarist's Tool Kit
• Tuning the Guitar
• The Hands
• Left-Handed Players
• Fingernails
• Seating Position
• The Guitar Fingerboard
• Mini Guitar Lesson: Half Steps and Whole Steps
• Reading Music: Pitch
• Notes
• The Staff
• Clefs
• Reading Music-Time
• Note Durations
• Rests
• Measures
• Time Signatures
• Basic Rhythms
• Getting Acquainted with Tablature
• Other Notation
• Neck Diagrams
• Start Making Music!
• Right-Hand Position
• Mini Guitar Lesson: Summary of the Right-Hand Position
• Basic Finger Position
• The Thumb (P) Free Stroke (Tirando)
• Introducing Low A and Low E (The Open 5th and 6th Strings)
• Left-Hand Position
• Introducing Low B and Low C on the 5th String
• Introducing Low F and Low G on the 6th String
• Introducing Low D, Middle E, and Middle F on the 4th String
• How to Practice
• Pieces on the 4th and 5th Strings
• Variation on a Melody by Fernando Sor
• A Melody from Canarios, Sanz
• Pieces on the 6th, 5th, and 4th Strings
• An English Volt
• Greensleeves
• Mini Music Lesson: Eighth Note Review
• Excerpt from Adagio, Opus 15 (Duet), Giuliani
• Free Stroke (Tirando) with I and M
• Two-Note Chords
• Introducing Notes on the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st Strings
• Crossing Strings
• Aria (Duet)
• Introducing Ties
• Introducing Dotted Notes
• Mini Music Lesson: Time
• Introducing High F and G on the 1st String
• Introducing Accidentals (Sharps, Flats, and Naturals )
• Mini Music Lesson: Accidental Signs
• Theme from the Fugue in A Minor, Bach
• Theme from Lagrima, Tarrega
• Theme from Forlorn Hope Fancy, Dowland
• Alternating Between Thumb and Fingers Using Free Strokes
• Pieces with Thumb and Two-Note Chord Alternations
• Country Dance No. 1
• Homage to Villa-Lobos
• In the Style of Leo Brouwer
• Incomplete Measures and Pickup Notes
• Grazioso (Duet), Giuliani
• Excerpt from Terpsichore (Duet), Ferrer
• Shifting up the Neck
• Mini Guitar Lesson: Fret Markers
• Mini Guitar Lesson: Positions
• Spanish Romance, Traditional
• Theme from FUGA, BWV 1000, Bach
• Alternating P with Individual Finger Strokes
• Mini Music Lesson: Introducing Sixteenth Notes
• Theme from Asturias (Leyenda), Albéniz
• Theme from Malagueña, Traditional Flamenco
• Introducing Rest Stroke (Apoyando)
• The Position
• The Stroke
• Rest Stroke Alternation
• Alternating P with Rest Strokes
• The Major Scale
• Good vs. Bad Crosses
• Playing Major Scales on One String: Shifting
• Introducing High A, B, C, D, and E on the 1st String
• Pieces Using Rest Stroke and P
• Sakura, Traditional Japanese Melody
• Introducing the Dotted Eighth, Sixteenth Rhythm
• Variation on a Minuet by José Ferrer
• Chords and Arpeggios
• Arpeggios
• Arpeggio Studies from Guiliani
• 120 Right-Hand Studies
• Introducing Triplets
• Introducing Dynamics
• Three-Note Chords with I-M-A
• The P-I-M-A and P-A-M-I Arpeggios
• More Arpeggio Studies
• Introducing Tempo Signs
• Supplemental Pieces
• Variation on a Study by Dionisio Aguado
• Key Signatures
• Largo from the Concerto in D Major, Vivaldi
• Mini Music Lesson: More Dynamic Signs
• Lullaby, Brahms
• Country Dance, Carulli
• Minuet in G, Bach
• Mini Guitar Lesson: Three- and Four-Note Chords
• Mini Music Lesson: Introducing the Sixteenth Rest
• Humoresque, Dvorak
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Romanze, Mozart
• Drop D and G Tuning
• Excerpt from Maple Leaf Rag, Joplin
• Piano Concerto No. 3, Movement 1 (Theme), Beethoven

Series: Teach Yourself Series
Author: Nathaniel Gunod
Instrument: Guitar
Format: Book, CD & DVD
Page Count: 80
Item Number: 00-42697
ISBN 10: 1-4706-1506-1
ISBN 13: 978-1-4706-1506-2
UPC: 038081481906