Media Type : Book+DVD Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Mastering Guitar Number of pages : 144 Mastering the Guitar is an innovative, exciting way to learn the guitar. Co-authored by William Bay and Mike Christiansen, this extremely comprehensive method applies the array of musical styles and techniques found in today's music. Written in notation and tablature, it covers a vast array of guitar solo and accompaniment styles. A special feature of this method is that it teaches both flatpicking and fingerstyle solo and accompaniment techniques. We feel that Mastering the Guitar is the most comprehensive approach to guitar technique repertoire and performance to be found anywhere. Volume 1A: Presents the essential foundational studies for contemporary guitar performance; Immediately introduces the student to the concept of playing contemporary music through the creative use of tablature; Logically and methodically teaches note-reading, utilizing the notes in first position on each string in numerous pages of playing material (over 155 solos and duets in the keys of C, A minor, G, and E minor); Contains more than 140 scale and picking studies, chord etudes, and accompaniment pieces, teaching contemporary techniques such as the slur, hammer-on, pull-off, vibrato and slide; Includes in-depth sections on back-up guitar and rhythm; Incorporates guitar duet material. Includes DVD.
SKU: HL.1447614
ISBN 9781574244212. UPC: 196288207351. 8.5x11.0x0.341 inches.
Get ready to develop your performance skills and musicianship, and take your playing to the next level with Solos and Duets for Classical Guitar! This book has a little something for every guitarist, but mainly, it is an opportunity for creative musicians to take their guitar skills to the next level. If you are new to classical guitar, you will find manageable, memorable classics as well as new arrangements of modern masters. If you are an experienced guitarist, you will find many works to challenge your technical performance and reading abilities. If you need additional help of tablature and/or audio recordings, these are available to you for every piece. On these pages, you will find music by master educators and musicians, including J.S. Bach, Béla Bartok, Domenico Cimarosa, Hamza El Din, George Heussenstamm, William Allaudin Mathieu, Nelson Montalvo, W.A. Mozart, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Robert Schumann. Many of the included selections are transcriptions from works for toher new instruments and some are original guitar works that now appear in print for the very first time! You will find many beautiful solos and duets, and even some guitar quartet exercises to lead you into ensemble playing.