Fingerstyle Guitar

Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• A Very Brief History
• THE GUITAR AS A COMPOSITION AND ARRANGING TOOL
• Bass
• Harmony
• Melody
• Phrasing
• Voices and Voicings
• Arpeggios
• Finger Roll
• Open Strings
• Ornaments - Adjacent string ornaments
• Accompaniment
• FINDING YOUR VOICE
• BASIC GUITAR HARMONY
• Why Theory?
• Theory unique to the (Fingerstyle) guitar
• Chords (scales) in the Major and Minor Keys
• ?Amazing Grace? - two versions
• The Capo
• Chord Inversions
• ?Lo How a Rose E?er Blooming?
• MELODY
• What is Melody?
• Common Denominators of Simple Melodic Phrasing and Punctuation
• Writing Your Own Melody
• Using Your Ears
• RHYTHM
• Every musical composition sits on top of rhythm
• Rhythm makes music linear
• Terms
• OPEN TUNINGS
• Open Tunings - Characteristics
• Important Tip - Voicings
• Open Tuning - Stage awareness
• ?Boat Song?
• ?Sleepers Awake?
• COMPOSING
• Idiomatic
• Composing for the Guitar
• The
• The Phrase
• Development
• Form
• Basic Sonata Form
• Sonata Form
• The Bridge
• Introduction and Coda
• ?The Grey Sea?
• ARRANGING
• Preliminary things to keep in mind
• Parameters
• ?Early One Morning? (4 versions)
• Transposing
• Frailing
• ?Arkansas Traveler?
• ?Small Coals for Nailers?
• ADDING NOTES TO CHORDS
• ORNAMENTS AND BENDS
• MODERN - COMTEMPORARY FINGERSTYLE
• Percussion
• The Slap
• Tambura
• Tapping
• Damping
• Examples:
• ?October Prelude #2?
• ?All These Novembers?
• FINGERSTYLE JAZZ
• Melody, Harmony, Bass & Rhythm
• Jazz Chords
• Chord Voicings
• Ballad
• Swing Rhythm - Right-Hand Thumb
• Bossa Nov?Greensleeves?
• ?Tiny Bird?
• CELTIC
• ?Owen O? Rourke?
• ?Banks of the Bann?
• ?Broom of the Cowdenknowes?
• FINGER PICKING - TRAVIS THUMB AND BEYOND
• History and keeping the tradition
• A Word of Caution
• Travis Exercises
• ?The Fishing Blues?
• PLAYING YOUR COMPOSITIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS
• Playing your melody on the guitar - Legato
• Chromatic and F scales
• Tempo
• Dynamics
• Tone
• PERFORMANCE
• PRACTICE
• Slow Practice
• Clearing the Open Strings
• The Metronome
• Choosing Pieces
• Core Piece
• Satellite Pieces
• Mastering a Piece
• How to Get Through the Tough, Finger-Busting Places
• Playing Forte
• You can always take sound away
• Final thoughts
• WARM-UPS
• Left-Hand Hammer-on's & Pull off's
• Right Hand
• Patterns with chords
• Final Thoughts
• SITTING AND HAND POSITIONS
• Steel-String Resistance
• Structural Issues
• Left-Hand Thumb
• The Wrist
• Right-Hand Fingers and Thumb
• Nails
• MY APPROACH TO COMPOSITION
• EPILOGUE
• TUNING INDEX
• AUTHOR BIO