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Preliminaries

1 | Contents Index [this page]

2 | Preface

3 | About the Author

Basic Guitar Technique

1 | Preparing to Play

2 | Sitting and Holding the Guitar

3 | Right-Hand Technique

4 | Left-Hand Technique and TAB

Music Reading

1 | Staff Notation

2 | Beat and Meter

3 | Rhythm and Counting

4 | Practicing Rhythm

The Treble Strings

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1 | Walkin' and the First String

2 | Frettin' and the Down 2X Strum

3 | Gentle Waves

4 | Lullaby and the Second String

5 | Gentle Mr. Bee

6 | Cuckoo and the P-i-m-a-m-i Arpeggio

7 | Love Me Tender and the Third String

8 | Andante Opus 31 No. 4 and P-i-m-a 2X

9 | Arirang (아리랑) and the Flat-Three Strum

Accidental Symbols

1 | Sharps and Flats

2 | The Accidental Blues

3 | Key Signatures and He is Lord

The Bass Strings

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1 | The First and Only and the Fourth String

2 | Amazing Grace

3 | Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

4 | Pie in the Sky and the Fifth String

5 | Kojo no Tsuki (荒城の月)

6 | Rose and the Sixth String

7 | Study No. 9 "Desert Song"

8 | The Faun's Return

Playing Solos

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1 | Cano's Etude in A Minor

2 | Carcassi's Prelude in E Minor

3 | Prelude No. 1 American Study

4 | Carcassi's Andantino in C Major

5 | Carulli's Andantino Opus 241 No. 5

6 | Greensleeves

7 | Sor's Etude Op. 31 No. 1

8 | Betty Lou of '52 by Frary

Playing Ensembles

The Rehearsal

1 | Now is The Month of Maying

2 | Brazilian Lullaby

3 | Ode to Joy

4 | Yellow Bird

5 | Plaisir d'amour (Can't Help Falling in Love)

6 | Shalom Chaverim (שלום חברים)

7 | Sinner Man

8 | Minuet in G Major by Handel

9 | Sweet Kate

Extra Solos

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1 | What if a Day, a Month, or a Year?

2 | Cancion de Cuna by Frary

3 | Waltz in C Major by Carcassi

4 | Frary's Prelude 2 “Morning Song”

5 | Minuet in A Minor by Krieger

6 | Prelude 3 “Dark Waves” by Frary

7 | Aguado's Etude in A Minor