Acoustic Guitar Styles
- Author: Sandberg, Larry
While the text is clear and helpful, it is the notation along with the accompanying CD ... that best conveys the sense of the proper phrasing of passages and approaches to single-note soloing....
Acoustic Guitar Styles
- Author: Sandberg, Larry
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While the text is clear and helpful, it is the notation along with the accompanying CD ... that best conveys the sense of the proper phrasing of passages and approaches to single-note soloing....
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"Acoustic Guitar Styles" introduces the most popular traditional styles for the acoustic guitar. The step-by-step approach, using a small repertoire of well-known songs, enables the student to explore various styles that can be adapted to play personal favorites. Although a basic knowledge of the guitar is assumed, even the beginner will benefit from this progressive approach.
Contents
- American Roots Guitar Styles *
- Introduction *
- Acknowledgments
- Part I : Preliminaries
- 1. How to Use This Book Basics * Notes and Tablature * Setting Your Pace * Finding Your Place and Using the CD * Listening * Tuning
- 2. Basic Chord Shapes
- 3. Chord Progression Practice Chord Progressions * Making Chord Changes * Practicing Chord Progressions * Chord Progressions for Practice
- 4. Basic Picking and Plucking Patterns
- 5. Using Alternating Bass Notes to Vary Picking and Strumming Patterns Hammering
- 6. Songs to Work With Transposition * Singing * The Songs
- 7. More Flatpicking and Fingerpicking Patterns Brushing and Strumming * Pattern Picking
- Part II . Guitar Styles
- 8. Old-Time, Bluegrass, and Early Country Styles Carter Style Melody Playing * Breaking the Rules with Bass Notes *
- Conclusion to Carter Style Playing
- 9. Melodic Fingerpicking Preparation for Melodic Fingerpicking * Playing Melodies *
- Conclusion to Melodic Fingerpicking
- 10. Country Blues The Blues Sound * The Blues Form: 12-Bar Blues * Transposing the Blues * Blues Tracks *
- Conclusion to the Blues
- 11. Song Gallery Crawdad Song-Carter Style * On Top of Old Smoky-Carter Style * This Little Light of Mine-Carter Style * Railroad Bill-Carter Style * Hello Blues-Fingerpicked * Crawdad Song-Fingerpicked * This Little Light of Mine-Fingerpicked * Generic
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While the text is clear and helpful, it is the notation along with the accompanying CD ... that best conveys the sense of the proper phrasing of passages and approaches to single-note soloing. What sets this guide apart from others are its focus on old-time music and the CD... Recommended
