TY - BOOK AU - McAllister,Colin ED - Teaching Company, TI - Learning to play guitar : Course Guidebook: chords, scales, and solos T2 - The great courses. Better Living. Hobby SN - 9781629973968 AV - MT588 .M33 2017 U1 - 787.87/193 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Chantilly, VA PB - Teaching Company KW - Guitar KW - Instruction and study KW - Methods KW - Self-instruction KW - Studies and exercises KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Title from container; "Course no. 7776."; Contains 24 lectures; each lecture is approximately 30 minutes; Closed captioned for the hearing impaired; Disc 1; 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 --; Disc 2; 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 --; Disc 3; 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 --; Disc 4; 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; Lecturer: Dr. Colin McAllister, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs N2 - Learn how to read music and play the guitar from a master of the instrument ER -