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Learning to play guitar : Course Guidebook/

Learning to play guitar : Course Guidebook/ chords, scales, and solos / Dr. Colin McAllister. - 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 minutes) : bsound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 244 pages : illustrations) - The great courses. Better Living. Hobby .

Title from container. "Course no. 7776." Contains 24 lectures; each lecture is approximately 30 minutes. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Guitar basics: play a song in 60 seconds -- Tuning up, reading music, and dexterity -- Classical guitar position and posture -- Learning how to practice the guitar -- Playing fingerstyle guitar -- Playing rhythm guitar -- The pentatonic scale -- The blues scale and lateral stretching -- Planting for control and accuracy -- Guitar tremolo: gaining speed -- Legato and power chords -- Travis picking for folk, country, and rock -- Hammer-ons and pull-offs -- Finger independence and chord theory -- Crosspicking and bass lines -- Piano-style guitar and fingernail care -- Syncopated strumming and movable scales -- A new pentatonic scale and the capo -- Barre chords: movable chords -- Flamenco technique: rasgueado -- Playing with natural harmonics -- Jazz harmony and Dorian mode -- DADGAD tuning and Lydian mode -- Taking the guitar to the next level. Disc 1. Disc 2. Disc 3. Disc 4.

Lecturer: Dr. Colin McAllister, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Learn how to read music and play the guitar from a master of the instrument.


In English.

9781629973968 1629973963

9781629973968

7776 Teaching Company ID7776A-01 Teaching Company PD7776A Teaching Company


Guitar--Instruction and study.
Guitar--Methods--Self-instruction.
Guitar--Studies and exercises.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

MT588 / .M33 2017

787.87/193

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