The Hal Leonard Classical Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play classical guitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide by renowned classical guitarist and teacher Paul Henry uses the music of the master composers to teach you the basics of the classical style and technique. The book includes pieces by Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Purcell and many more and includes lessons on: tuning • proper playing technique • notes in open position • PIMA technique • time signatures • key signatures • scales • chords • and more. Includes access to audio demo tracks online for download or streaming.
Online audio is accessed at halleonard.com/mylibrary
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The Hal Leonard Classical Guitar Method is designed for anyone just learning to play classical guitar. This comprehensive and easy-to-use guide by renowned classical guitarist and teacher Paul Henry uses the music of the master composers to further develop your understanding of the classical style and technique. Book 2 includes: tone-coloring techniques; dynamics; dampening; sixth string tuned to D; notes above open position; left-hand shifting; grace notes, slides, and articulations; natural and artificial harmonics; natural and artificial harmonics; full and partial barres; trills and mordents; two-octave scales; vibrato; counterpoint; left- and right-hand technique review; slur exercises; and more!
This book also includes access to more than 50 audio tracks for demonstration and play-along. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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This multi-volume method was developed to allow students to study the art of classical guitar within a new, more contemporary framework. For private, class or self-instruction. Book One features an all-new format that incorporates chord frames and symbols and introduces beginning fingerboard technique and music theory. Book Two and Three build upon the techniques learned in Book One.
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Looking for a great advanced classical guitar method? A Modern Approach to Classical Guitar Book 3 is perfect for students looking to take their playing to the next level. Written by one of the premier classical guitarists of our time and based on years of teaching students of all ages, this revised edition of Book 3 includes new pieces, new concepts, all-new layout and engravings, and new audio recordings by pro guitarist Judy Handler!
Topics include: Dynamic preparation; Goal-directed movement; Left- and right-hand synchronization; Barre chords and hinge barres; Playing in new keys; Fifth, seventh, and ninth positions; Scale and arpeggio studies; Left-hand technique; Ornamentations and articulations; Damping techniques; and more.
This edition also includes 39 high-quality demonstration audio tracks which are accessed online for download or streaming. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Please note: A Modern Approach to Classical Guitar Book 3 works for all classical guitar students, even if you didn't use Books 1 and 2!
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This multi-volume method was developed to allow students to study the art of classical guitar within a new, more contemporary framework. For private, class or self-instruction. Book One features an all-new format that incorporates chord frames and symbols, as well as online tracks to assist in tuning and to provide accompaniments for at-home practice. Book One also introduces beginning fingerboard technique and music theory. Book Two and Three build upon the techniques learned in Book One.
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Here's a book geared specifically to the needs of younger beginners. From picking up the guitar for the first time to power chords to easy blues solos, it's all here, and it's all written in an easy-to-understand style for kids ages 10-14.
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This excellent beginner's book guides guitarists through the basics in a clear, easy-to-understand manner. Unlike other beginning methods, this book teaches all of the notes on the guitar through the fifth position, all of the most common open string chords, both flat and sharp keys, and the basics of technique and music theory. Includes lots of helpful photos and diagrams.
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Learn the essential techniques for playing classical guitar. These exercises and demonstrations will help you to develop ease of motion, efficiency, coordination, tone, control over dynamics and color, melodic connection and harmonic balance while preventing injury. Techniques for each hand are discussed in isolation and then combined with exercises drawn from the “Chaconne” by S.L. Weiss, which is also included in its entirety. Whether you are a classical or improvising player, you will find a clear, concise outline of the basic hand position and timing, with dozens of illustrative photographs and detailed descriptions. The online audio recordings demonstrate the techniques and their effects.
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Critical edition based on manuscript sources. With detailed manuscript facsimiles, and an appendix containing critical commentary, variants, and observations.
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Expand your guitar knowledge with the Guitar Lesson Goldmine series! Featuring 100 individual modules covering a giant array of topics, each lesson in this classical volume includes detailed instruction with playing examples presented in standard notation and tablature. You'll also get extremely useful tips, scale diagrams, chord grids, and more to reinforce your learning experience, plus over 100 tracks of audio for all the examples in the book!
A huge variety of classical guitar styles and techniques are covered, including: articulations, slurs, tone color, tremolo, vibrato, fingering decisions, open-position playing, circle of fifths, and so much more!
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Classical Guitar Chops is a collection of famous classical excerpts and exercises designed to build, hone, and perfect your classical guitar technique. Acclaimed guitarist and teacher Evan Hirschelman guides you through challenging repertoire and exercises by Bach, Albéniz, Paganini, Giuliani, Sor, and more, covering many critical techniques. Music is provided in standard notation and tablature. Accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the excerpts in the book. A must-have practice workbook for all classical guitarists! The price of this book includes access to audio tracks online, for download or streaming, using the unique code inside. Includes PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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All the music, in both standard notation and tablature, to fifty standards from the beginner and intermediate classical guitar repertoires. Includes a full-length CD of all the pieces performed by the author. Learn pieces by Grieg, Paganini, Sor, Giuliani, Carcassi and many more.
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Power Studies are supplemental songbooks to go along with the Wolf Marshall Guitar Method. This book contains the songs you want to play divided into sections that correlate to each chapter in the method book! 12 songs including: Bang a Gong • Crossroads • Sweet Emotion • and more. 52-minute audio accompaniment.
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Julio Sagreras was born in Buenos Aires in 1879 to a family of Spanish origins. Both of his parents, Gaspar Sagreras and Dolores Ramirez, were guitarists. From a very young age Julio showed extraordinary musical gifts that made him a guitarist admired and in demand in all the musical salons of the Argentine capital.
This edition differs from the previous ones, as well as for a new and more modern musical graphics, for the simplification of the fingerings that Sagreras pedantically repeated even in the most obvious situations, for the correction of errors, the development of more detailed explanations and the addition of some necessary historical and practical clarifications.
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Learn the secrets of the world's most popular classical guitarist, and join Milos on his classical guitar journey! Be inspired, have fun and make new discoveries with Milo's personal stories, photos and the classical guitar pieces that he has loved and played over the years. From the very first guitar pieces that excited Milos as young boy of 8 in Montenegro to the repertoire he has performed and played in his concerts and on his albums worldwide.
Now that you know some of the basics from Play Guitar with Milos Level 1, build your knowledge of chords, hand shapes, and right-hand techniques, as demonstrated by Milos himself in Play Guitar with Milos Level 2. Let his passion for the classical guitar take you on the Milos journey!
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