Mel Bay's Modern Fingerstyle Guitar Method Grade 1

Features:

The Modern Fingerstyle Method gets the student up and playing within the first few pages, it was designed for the absolute beginner with absolutely no experience whatsoever. Students are directed toward reading lines, not notes. Steve Eckels introduces the tools necessary to construct fingerstyle guitar solos. Each piece utilizes musical tools that will be used over and over again throughout the book. Written in standard notation and tablature.

This book gets the student up and playing within the first few pages. For the absolute beginner with absolutely no experience whatsoever. Directs the student to reading lines, not notes. Introduces the tools necessary to construct fingerstyle guitar solos. Each piece utilizes musical tools that will be used over and over again throughout the book. Written in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

Table of Contents:

• Section One: Overview
• Contents
• Preface & The Author
• A Modern View of Tuning
• Holding the Guitar
• Right-Hand Positions
• Left-Hand Positions
• Section Two: A Modern Method for Reading Music
• The Musical Alphabet
• Learning the Staff Using Ladders and Hands
• Placing Notes on the Staff
• Ledger Lines for Reading Bass Notes
• Drawing Ledger Lines
• Using Words to Understand Rhythms
• Understanding Measures
• Grid Diagrams
• Creating a Notation Reference Chart
• Octaves
• Melodic Direction
• Reading Melodic Lines
• Reference Notes: Using Key Tones
• Reference Notes: Using Open Strings
• Reference Notes: F-A-C-E
• Reference Notes: Using High and Low Points
• Skips
• Identifying Skips
• Reading Melodic Leaps: Identifying Intervals
• Writing Intervals
• Identifying Chords by Reading Intervals
• Section Three: Fingerstyle Patterns
• Exploring the Open Strings
• Finger Independence
• Travis Picking
• Finger Alternation
• Adding a Melody to an A Bass Note
• Harmonized Scale Steps over an Open Bass
• Adding a Melody to an F Bass Note
• Harmonized Scale Steps Over the F Bass Note
• Adding a Melody to a G Bass Note
• Harmonized Scale Steps Over the G Bass Note
• A Dozen Fingerpicking Patterns with Practice Progressions
• Section Four: Arranging Your Own Solos
• Amazing Grace: Adding a Bass Note to a Melody
• Amazing Grace: Adding Fill Notes to a Melody and Bass
• Amazing Grace: Writing Your Own Variations from Chord Tones
• Section Five: Fingerstlye Solo Readiness
• Silent Night: Rest Strokes
• O Come, Emmanuel: Bass Melody
• Leyenda: Free Strokes
• Coventry Carol: Melody Over Open Bass Strings
• Welsh Hymn: Melody Over Fretted Bass
• Section Six: Fingerstyle Solos
• Key of C
• Be Thou My Vision
• Shenandoah
• Star of the County Down
• Danny Boy
• My Country 'Tis of Thee
• America the Beautiful
• The Water is Wide
• Jolly Blues in C
• Key of A minor
• Für Elise - Basic Version
• Für Elise - Embellished Version
• Greensleeves
• Scarborough Fair
• Gypsy Blues in A minor
• Key of G
• Morning Has Broken
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
• Dixie
• The Star Spangled Banner
• Lazy Blues in G
• Key of E minor
• Moonlight Sonata
• Boogie Shuffle in E minor
• APPENDIX: Modern Method Reading Unit
• Notes on the A String
• Notes on the D String
• Combining the A and D Strings
• Melodies on the A and D Strings
• The G and B Strings
• Melodies on the G and B strings
• Review of Four Strings
• Notes on the High E String
• Notes on the Low E String
• Combining the Low and High E Strings in Octaves
• Some Important Music Concepts: Sharps, Flats, Naturals, Enharmonics and Ties

Catalog:	MB21496M
Publisher:	Mel Bay
Composer:	Steve Eckels
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Level:	Student
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