Enjoy Playing Guitar, Tutor Book 1
First Steps in Playing Classical Guitar [New Edition]
This revised edition of Enjoy Playing Guitar: Tutor Book 1 is the ultimate resource for all beginner guitarists. It introduces the basics of classical guitar playing and musical concepts through an approach that is clear, progressive, and carefully paced. It includes tailored solos, duets, and trios in a range of styles, and it develops musicianship through activities in improvisation, playing by ear, and the art of accompanying. To consolidate learning, there are helpful reminders and quizzes covering musical knowledge, plus a CD with over 70 play-along tracks. Encouraging self-directed learning outside as well as during lessons, this is the perfect book for today's aspiring player.
accommodates one-to-one or group teaching over 70 pieces in a range of styles, including originals plus arrangements of well-known tunes supporting creative activities covering improvisation, playing by ear, and accompanying using basic chords and ostinatos detailed illustrations showing best posture and hand/finger positions CD of play-alongs for school performance or practising at home
Contents: Parts of the guitar Sitting position Right-hand position Left-hand position Strings and frets 4/4 time Two-Note Hop Two-Note Jump March A Stroll Jogging Conversation 3/4 time Waltz Bees and Cees I. C. A. B. Bees and Dees Solo Copycat Echo Slow Train Go, tell Aunt Nancy Two into One Indigo Blues Little Bird Jingle Bells Old Time Minuet Yankee Doodle Au Clair de la Lune Good King Wenceslas; Dance The Low Down The Russian Girl (duet) Barcarolle Open bass strings plus treble notes Thumb, Finger, Finger Serenade Inca Dawn Summary of all the open strings Happy Birthday London's Burning; Frère Jacques Oh Sinner Man! A March for Two Guitars Home on the Range The Tie Summer Waltz The right-hand fingers Open-string exercises Vals Triste Theme and Variation G Major Scale Scale Study (Meet) the Flintstones El Coqui (The Tree-Frog) The Key Signature Andante in G Waltz (F. Carulli) Camelot A Blues Duet 6/4 time The Natural The Ash Grove Shalom Chaverim Dreaming Invention Study in A Minor Pony Trek The Cossacks Malagueña Auld Lang Syne The First Nowell The Lutenist 6/8 time Row, row, row your boat Irish Jig Country Jig Manhattan Nights Oasis Cowboy Blues Turkish Dance Song of the Volga Boatmen The Wasp C Major Scale Silent Night The Russian Girl (solo) Summer is Icumen in Pastoral Siesta More work on bass notes E minor Pentatonic Scale The Condor Three in One Two's Company The Coventry Carol Andante in C Greensleeves Match of the Day
| Featured Product | No |
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| Composer | CRACKNELL, DEBBIE |
| Availability | Available |
| TAB/Notation | Music Notation Only |
| Additional Media | One Audio CD |
| Description | This revised edition of Enjoy Playing Guitar: Tutor Book 1 is the ultimate resource for all beginner guitarists. It introduces the basics of classical guitar playing and musical concepts through an approach that is clear, progressive, and carefully paced. It includes tailored solos, duets, and trios in a range of styles, and it develops musicianship through activities in improvisation, playing by ear, and the art of accompanying. To consolidate learning, there are helpful reminders and quizzes covering musical knowledge, plus a CD with over 70 play-along tracks. Encouraging self-directed learning outside as well as during lessons, this is the perfect book for today's aspiring player. accommodates one-to-one or group teaching over 70 pieces in a range of styles, including originals plus arrangements of well-known tunes supporting creative activities covering improvisation, playing by ear, and accompanying using basic chords and ostinatos detailed illustrations showing best posture and hand/finger positions CD of play-alongs for school performance or practising at home Contents: Parts of the guitar Sitting position Right-hand position Left-hand position Strings and frets 4/4 time Two-Note Hop Two-Note Jump March A Stroll Jogging Conversation 3/4 time Waltz Bees and Cees I. C. A. B. Bees and Dees Solo Copycat Echo Slow Train Go, tell Aunt Nancy Two into One Indigo Blues Little Bird Jingle Bells Old Time Minuet Yankee Doodle Au Clair de la Lune Good King Wenceslas; Dance The Low Down The Russian Girl (duet) Barcarolle Open bass strings plus treble notes Thumb, Finger, Finger Serenade Inca Dawn Summary of all the open strings Happy Birthday London's Burning; Frère Jacques Oh Sinner Man! A March for Two Guitars Home on the Range The Tie Summer Waltz The right-hand fingers Open-string exercises Vals Triste Theme and Variation G Major Scale Scale Study (Meet) the Flintstones El Coqui (The Tree-Frog) The Key Signature Andante in G Waltz (F. Carulli) Camelot A Blues Duet 6/4 time The Natural The Ash Grove Shalom Chaverim Dreaming Invention Study in A Minor Pony Trek The Cossacks Malagueña Auld Lang Syne The First Nowell The Lutenist 6/8 time Row, row, row your boat Irish Jig Country Jig Manhattan Nights Oasis Cowboy Blues Turkish Dance Song of the Volga Boatmen The Wasp C Major Scale Silent Night The Russian Girl (solo) Summer is Icumen in Pastoral Siesta More work on bass notes E minor Pentatonic Scale The Condor Three in One Two's Company The Coventry Carol Andante in C Greensleeves Match of the Day |