My First Note Reading Book

Suitable for beginning guitarists the Mel Bay: Guitar Primer serves as a precursor to the Modern Guitar Method Grade 1. This easy carefully graduated note-reading method provides an introduction tothe rudiments of music through enjoyable single-note exercises and solos. This book includes diagrams and photographs showing the location of the notes in first position for increased clarity. The Mel Bay: GuitarPrimer is written for the plectrum style player in standard notation only and includes access to online audio.

Description Extremely comprehensive method applies the array of musical styles and techniques found in today's music. Teaches both flatpicking and fingerstyle solo and accompaniment techniques. 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). Includes in-depth sections on back-up guitar and rhythm; Incorporates guitar duet material; All in standard notation and TAB.

An exhaustive and complete guide to leaning to read notes on the guitar. This text was drawn from all the best of William Bay's 'Modern Guitar Method/Expanded Version,' 'Mastering the Guitar' and 'First Lessons/Guitar' books. If you want to master note reading on the guitar fingerboard, this is the book for you. / Guitare / 140 pages / niveau : Débutant / Partition - Format: 11 X 8,5

These easy-to-read, progressive exercises by Joanne Martin develop a student's reading skills one stage at a time, with many repetitions at each stage. I Can Read Music is designed as a first note-reading book for students of string instruments who have learned to play using an aural approach such as the Suzuki Method, or for traditionally taught students who need extra note reading practice. Its presentation of new ideas is clear enough that it can be used daily at home by quite young children and their parents, with the teacher checking progress every week or two.

This fun and easy book and CD takes you from the very beginning. Learning right and left-hand techniques learning your first chords 18 great songs AND you painlessly learn them by reading notes. Anyone can do it. Steve's method and approach to learning to read notes is so simple that 4 year olds have done it. You will start with 4 simple notes. Steve then teaches songs using just those four notes. He systematically adds a few more notes at a time bundled with easy to understand instructions and songs so that in a short time you will know all the notes chords strumming patterns to play hundreds of songs. This is a perfect primer for many of Steve's best sellers and other author'books. Includes access to online audio.

This beginning guitar method is unique in that it teaches the basics of playing guitar while focusing on the style of folk guitar. Designed to teach students the fundamentals of playing chords and melody on guitar First LessonFolk Guitar also provides lessons on correct posture caring for the guitar proper right and left-hand technique and tuning the guitar to its self a pitch pipe or a piano. Subjects covered include strumming chords accompaniment patterns fingerstyle basics reading standard notation reading tab and alternating bass strum patterns. Time tested folk standards with lyrics are included to teach playing fundamentals. Accompanying CD and DVDprovides students a professional recording of tunes and exercises. â?¢

Learn the Guitar in a creative new way. Par PELLS TIM / FRANKE JENS. Learn the Guitar in a creative new way: Playing music that makes you feel good, right from the outset. Passport to Play Guitar is a tutor series which is focused on learning to play the guitar through listening, reading and playing together, and is suitable for both classical and acoustic guitarists. The sheet music includes TAB alongside the standard notation. The books use music drawn from styles and cultures from all around the world, including Blues and Jazz from North America; Folk and Traditional music from Europe, Africa and Latin America; and pieces inspired by the people and places that the authors have encountered on their travels. Audio files

Following on from his hugely successful JustinGuitar.com Beginner’s Course and his songbooks for Guitar celebrated guitar tutor Justin Sandercoe and his friend and sessionguitar master Dario Cortese have created a detailed and comprehensive guide to reading music notation for guitarists. This book has been specially created for any guitarist who wants to learn note reading be theybeginners or more advanced players who have neglected this part of their musicianship. It starts with the very basics of written music and progressively introduces notes on each string one at a time until all notes in the 'openposition' (first five frets) of the Guitar have been mastered and up to 8th note rhythm subdivisions have been learned and applied. Also covered are sharps flats key signatures accidentals repeats and more. Each step includespractical exercises handy tips and tricks and a simple repertoire for students to put their reading skills into practice. Volume 2 will introduce the student to notes further up the neck position shifts and more complexrhythm subdivisions. Expected mid 2017.

520 Exercises include 58 Musical Studies in Positions 1 through 7-Written by Janice Tucker Rhoda author of the popular ABCs of Strings method the Complete Technique For Double Bass series is designed for advanced beginners to upper level students wishing to learn or improve their left hand and right arm bow skills.Starting in first position and proceeding carefully through the higher positions these method books use short studies to demonstrate specific technical ideas.The book starts with solidifying the combination of note reading rhythm and bow distribution then quickly progresses to a variety of bowing techniques and use of positions 1 - 7 half and thumb position explaining the physicalityof the left and right hands arms elbows and shoulders. Using a mixture of more melodic studies with purely technical exercises this book quickly gives players information and confidence to improve their playing.Complete Technique For Double Bass - Book 1 covers and includes:Positions 1 through 7Half PositionBass tenor and treble clefsTwo octave C Major Scale to thumb positionAdvanced chromatic scaleBasic thumb positionWorksheets for note-readingScales arpeggios broken thirdsImprovisational melodiesDouble-Stops chords octavesHarmonicsArm Swing left-hand and bow-arm techniqueBow balancing exercisesBallet of Shifting exercisesQuick Finger exercisesFinger Substitution exercisesLeft-hand pizzicato exercisesTeaching points throughout

Mid-Elementary Level-The two books When Notes Go Walking (Book 1) and When Notes Go Skipping (Book 2) contain pieces for piano students who are playing for the first time from printed music. At the outset the student is given a practical manner of reading notes which needs not be discarded changed or modified as the student advances. The plan is simple: Watch the notes to see where they go! After the first note is played the student reads on by DIRECTION and DISTANCE observing each note in its RELATED POSITION to the last one played.

An exhaustive and complete guide to leaning to read notes on the guitar. This text was drawn from all the best of William Bay's 'Modern Guitar Method/Expanded Version ' 'Mastering the Guitar' and 'First Lessons/Guitar' books. Ifyou want to master note reading on the guitar fingerboard this is the book for you.

Adapted by Corey Christiansen Spiral Book and 2 CDs! Why should horn players have all of the fun? Now, the number one selling Jazz Improvisation book in the world has a whole new look! Introducing a new version of Jamey's world famous Volume 1 - How To Play Jazz And Improvise, completely revised and specifically tailored for guitarists by jazz great Corey Christiansen! This edition is perfectly aligned with the original classic Sixth Edition that introduced tens of thousands of musicians to essential jazz fundamentals such as scale/chord relationships, articulation, note choices, etc. In this special version, however, the text has been carefully edited and rewritten to speak specifically to guitarists. Even non-reading players will benefit, because we've also included TAB and FRAMES for each of the musical examples. The piano track from the original CD has been replaced by Corey on guitar, and many of the chords and voicings are explained and notated in the book. The play-a-long/demonstration CD includes special stereo separation, allowing the guitar on each track to be eliminated so that the student can play along with bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Jonathan Higgins. A second CD includes the same play-a-long tracks as the first CD, but at slower practice tempos. This high-quality book is spiral bound, designed to lie flat for ease of use. A complete package! Includes: Scales/Chords Developing Creativity Improv Fundamentals 12 Blues Scales Bebop Scales Pentatonic Scales Time and Feel Melodic Development II/V7s Related Scales and Modes Practical Exercises Patterns and Licks Dominant 7th Tree of Scale Choices Nomenclature Chromaticism Scale Syllabus and more! NOTE FROM JAMEY When I first heard So What on the Kind of Blue record I didn?t think anything was happening because I was used to hearing changes flying by and this seemed so tame by comparison. I quickly fell in love with Kind of Blue and of course we at IU started experimenting with modal tunes and trying to keep our place in those many 8 bar phrases that seemed at times to make me feel like I was in the middle of a desert and couldn?t see for the life of me the beginning of the next 8 bar phrase.

Spanish language version of the best-selling piano method. From the very first lessons in Book 1 students are making music as they explore the piano keyboard through fun improvisation pieces called My Own Song. The beginning of the book introduces finger numbers the black-key and white-key groups and basic rhythm patterns. Directional reading is taught first by finger number then by note name and then by interval (stop skip and repeat). Once the students are introduced to the staff they learn reading guides Bass F and Treble G and read by interval in several different hand positions.