Guitar from Scratch - The Sequel

ISBN: 0966502957

Author: Bruce Emery

Condition: New

We ll start with Stupid Chord Tricks, clever little mutations and variations that pour easily out of the guitar. People have stumbled onto them, they sound good and, in any case, you should know about them. They constitute the slang of the guitar.Passing Chords come next. These are the slash chords that feature unexpected bass notes that serve to tie together the chords in a sequence. In Bass Runs, the basslines are physically extracted from the chords and played as single notes in Walkups and Walkdowns.Finally, we get into playing Single Note Lines. We ll use familiar melodies, talk about different right- and left-hand techniques and do a little blues improv using what are called Pentatonic Scales. Then we ll move into the realm of reading Standard Music Notation (the dots and the flags and the beams) with as little pain as possible.Table of ContentsStupid Chords Tricks involving:The G chordThe G7 chordThe D chordThe A chordThe C chordThe Am chordThe F chordThe E chordThe Em chordThe E7 chordAnchor Chords RevisitedDrone Chord ProgressionsPassing ChordsG to EmC to Am and BeyondVarious othersMajor-Major 7th-7thShape-Shifting:C ShapeD ShapeG ShapeA ShapeE ShapeBass Runs:Key of GKey of CKey of EKey of AHammer-onsActual ExamplesSingle Note Lines:Alternate PickingPosition PlayingActual ExamplesMajor Scale SummaryFun With PentatonicsE MinorA Minor Up the NeckAny KeyTwelve-Bar BluesG MajorC MajorAdvanced StrummingDamping PatternThree-over-Four PatternGetting to Carnegie HallNote ReadingNote ValuesLetter NamesOpen StringsFirst StringSecond StringChord Tie-inCombining the First Two StringsThird StringFourth StringFifth StringSixth StringRests