Aaron Shearer: Shearer, Aaron Learning The Classic Guitar Part 1

Contents

• The Oassic Guitar
• "Classic'' or "Classical" Guitar?
• Tuning the Guitar
• Playing Condition of the Guitar
• Determining the Action of a Guitar
• Choosing a Teacher
• Approaching Guitar Study
• Your Goal: Sharing Music
• Essentials for Performance
• Avoiding Habits of Confusion and Error
• Aim-Directed Movement
• Developing Sustained Concentration
• Guidelines for Study and Practice
• The Four Principles of Efficient Muscle Function
• Positioning the Guitar
• General Positioning
• The Five Ways of Moving the Guitar
• The Right- and Left-Hand Position Checks
• Adjusting Your Position
• An Alternative to Using the Footstand Alone
• Tone Production
• Principles of Tone Production
• Tone Quality and Your Nails
• Nail Contours and Suggested Sha pings
• Beginning Right-Hand Training
• Terms and Symbols
• Right-Hand Positioning
• Rest-Stroke and Free-Stroke
• The Prepared-Stroke
• Training P: The Prepared Free-Stroke
• Sounding the Strings
• The Continuity-Stroke
• Beginning Left-Hand Training
• Before You Begin
• Left-Hand Positioning
• Left-Hand Movement
• Movement by Touch: Applying Aim-Directed Movement (ADM)
• Training the Right-Hand Fingers
• Training the Inactive Fingers
• The Prepared Rest-Stroke
• The Continuity Rest-Stroke
• Alternation of a Finger Rest-Stroke and r_ Free-Stroke
• Beginning Free-Stroke with Your Fingers
• Free-Stroke Considerations
• 1-M Free-Stroke
• Tip Joint Considerations
• 1-M and r_ Alternation
• 1-M-A Free-Stroke
• 1-M-A and P Alternation
• Sym pathetic Movement
• ELM
• ELM-A
• El-M,A
• Alternation
• Beginning Free-Stroke Alternation: ELM,
• Left-Hand Considerations
• EL A
• Alternating 1 and M on Adjacent Strings
• Alternating 1 and Mon a Single String
• Principles of String Crossing
• Beginning String Crossing
• Clarity on Wound Strings
• Sounding a Single Note Free-Stroke on an Adjacent String
• Mand A Alternation
• Developing Right-Hand Speed
• Developing Independence through Opposed-Finger Sweeps
• Integrating Independence and Control
• Comparing Rest-Stroke and Free-Stroke
• Rest-Stroke Finger Alternation
• Sounding Three Strings Together with r_ and the Fingers
• Sounding Two Strings Together with r_ and One Finger
• ELM,A
• ELM,&M,1
• Four Strings Simultaneously with f-1-M-A
• Further Left-Hand Training
• Applying the Principles of Efficient Muscle Function
• Developing Left-Hand Mobility
• Slurs
• Technical Slurs
• Types of Downward Slurs
• Further Right-Hand Training
• Arpeggios without P
• & MI
• LMA
• & MI,M
• I, A, MA
• & L MI
• Conditioning and Coordination Exercise
• The Importance of Stretching Exercises
• Procedure for Stretching Exercises
• Developing Muscular Coordination
• Coordination Exercises
• The Remedial Student
• Summary
• The Natural Approach
• Determining the Most Natural Approach
• The Misuse of ''Just Let It Happen"
• Economy of Movement
• Repetitive Strain Inj-ury (RSI)
• Coordination and Counterproductive Tension
• How RSI Develops
• Musicians Who Develop RSI 1
• Questions about RSI 1
• Overcoming RSI 1
• Summary 10
• Avoiding Chronic Shoulder Pain 11
• Learning to Recognize Correct Arm Movement 1
• Procedure for Training the Right Shoulder 1