SHRED IS NOT DEAD, WITH TERRY SYREK. Un'ora di splettrante sminuzzamento. DVD TABLATURE
Shred Is Not Dead
Concepts and Techniques for the Aspiring Rock Lead Guitar Virtuoso
By Terry Syrek
Item: 00-21936
UPC: 038081205199
ISBN 10: 0739030191
ISBN 13: 9780739030196
Category: Guitar Method or Supplement
Format: Book & DVD
DVD format: Region 0 for use in all regions.
Instrument: Guitar
Master shredder Terry Syrek makes it easy to become a rock lead-guitar virtuoso. Discover monster chop-building exercises and the secret to mind-bending, super-fast, sweep-picking licks. Plus, make creative use of the pentatonic scale and other scales you wouldn't necessarily think of using. 48 pages. DVD running time: 60 minutes.
This booklet will help prepare you to get the most out of your video.
It will introduce the guitar fingerboard, the basics of reading standard
music notation, guitar tablature, chord diagrams and guitar neck
diagrams. All of us at the National Guitar Workshop and Alfred wish
you lots of fun and fulfillment as you learn to play guitar.
The Guitar Fingerboard
Half Steps and Whole Steps
Our first order of business is to understand how the guitar fingerboard
works and to learn how to find or name all of these notes on the neck.
This is easy if we know about half steps and whole steps.
A half step is the distance from one fret to the next on the guitar. For
instance, the distance from the 1st fret to the 2nd is one half step. This
is the smallest interval (distance between two notes). Two half steps equal
one whole step, which is a distance of two frets on the guitar. For
example, the distance from the 1st fret to the 3rd fret is a whole step.
The arrangement of whole steps and half steps in the musical alphabet
is as follows:
Here is where all of the notes in the musical alphabet—the natural notes—
are found on the guitar.
A B C D E F G A
W H W W H W W
W= Whole step
H= Half step
G A B C D E
C D E F G A
A B C D E
Whole Step
Half Step
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1st string
6th string
Open Frets
Strings2 3
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G
G line
Treble clef
Staff
Note
You have probably noticed the blank, unnamed frets on the fingerboard in
the diagram on page 1. These are filled with sharp and flat notes, also
called accidentals or chromatic tones. When a sharp
is placed in front of
a note, the note is raised one half step (one fret). For example, F
is one
fret higher than F. When a flat is placed in front of a note, the note is
lowered one half step (one fret). For example, G
is one fret lower than
G. Notice that F
and G
fall on the same fret. Two notes which sound
the same (played on the same fret) but have different letter names are
termed enharmonic equivalents. Every sharped or flatted note has an
enharmonic equivalent.
Notes
Music is written by placing notes on a staff.
Notes appear in various ways.
Music Notation: Pitch
The Staff and Clef
The staff, which is read from left to right,
has five lines and four spaces. At the
beginning of the staff is a clef. The clef
dictates what pitch (exact degree of
highness or lowness) corresponds to a
particular line or space on the staff. Guitar
music is written in treble clef , which is sometimes called the G clef.
The ending curl of the clef circles the G line on the staff.
Here are the notes on the staff using the G clef:
Ledger Lines
The higher a note appears on the staff, the higher it sounds. When a note
is too high or too low to be written on the staff, ledger lines are used.
Guitar music actually sounds one octave lower than it is written. We
write music an octave (12 half steps) higher than it sounds strictly for
reasons of convenience and easy reading.
Music Notation: Time
Measures and Bar Lines
The staff is divided by vertical lines called bar lines. The space between
two bar lines is called a measure. Measures divide music into groups of
beats. A beat is an equal division of time. Beats are the basic pulse behind
music. A double bar marks the end of a section or example.
Time signature
One measure or bar
Bar lines
Double bar
E F G A B C A B C D E
Ledger lines
Ledger lines
Note heads
Stems Flag Beams
& w w w w w w w w w
D G A B C D E F
F G A B C D E
Whole Step
Half Step
Enharmonic
Equivalents
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1st string
6th string
Open Frets
Strings4 5
Half Rests = 2 beats
Quarter Rests = 1 beat
Eighth Rests
Sixteenth Rests
= ½ beat
= ¼ beat
Whole Rest = 4 beats
Ties
When notes are tied, the second note is not
struck. Rather, its value is added to that of the
first note. So, a half note tied to a quarter note
equals three beats.
Notice the numbers under
the staff in these examples.
They indicate how to count.
Both of these examples are
in time, so we count four
beats in each measure.
When there are eighth
notes, which are only half a
beat, we count “&” (“and”)
to show the division of the
beats into two parts. When
a counting number is in
parentheses, a note is being
held rather than struck.
Ties are a convenient way to notate notes that begin off the beat (on
an “&”).
Half Notes = 2 beats
h h
Quarter Notes = 1 beat
q q q q
Eighth Notes
Sixteenth Notes
= ½ beat
= ¼ beat
Whole Note = 4 beats
Note Values
As you know, the location of a note relative to the staff tells us its
pitch (how high or how low it is). The duration, or value, is indicated
by its shape.
Time Signatures
Every piece of music has a pair of numbers at the beginning, called
time signatures, that tell us how to count time. The top number
represents the number of beats per measure. The bottom number
represents the type of note receiving one count.
Dots
A dot increases the length of
a note by one half of its
original value. For instance, a
half note equals two beats.
Half of its value is one beat (a quarter note). So, a dotted half note
equals three beats (2 + 1 = 3). A dotted half note is equal to a half
note tied to a quarter note.
Dotted notes are especially
important when the time
signature is , because the
longest note value that will fit in a measure is a dotted half note.
Also, dotted notes are very important in time, because not only is
a dotted half note the longest possible note value, but a dotted
quarter note is exactly half of a measure (counted 1 & a 2 & a).
In some cases, consecutive eighth notes are beamed together.
Sometimes a
is written in place of time. is often called
common time.
= Four beats per measure
= A quarter note equals one beat
= Three beats per measure
= A quarter note equals one beat
= Six beats per measure
= An eighth note equals one beat
Rest Values
Every note value has a corresponding rest. A rest indicates silence. A
whole rest indicates four beats of silence, a half rest is two beats of
silence, etc.6 7
Beaming
Notes that are less than one beat in duration are often beamed
together. Notice the couting numbers: since there are four sixteenth
notes in a beat, they are counted “1 e & a, 2 e & a,” etc.
Rhythmic Notation
Rhythmic notation is common in guitar music. It is a system of slash
marks with stems and beams that notate specific rhythms without
specific pitches. Rhythmic notation is usually used to show a rhythm
guitar part.
TAB
Tablature is a system of notation that graphically represents the strings
and frets of the guitar fingerboard. Each note is indicated by placing a
number, which indicates the fret to play, on the appropriate string.
Reading TAB, Scale and Chord Diagrams
Scale Diagrams
The top line of a scale diagram represents the 1st (highest) string of
the guitar, and the bottom line the 6th. The vertical lines represent
frets, which are numbered.
Chord Diagrams
Chord diagrams are similar to scale diagrams, except they are oriented
vertically instead of horizontally. Vertical lines represent strings, and
horizontal lines represent frets.
Beamed sixteenth notes Beamed quarter notes
Chord name
Play open string
Indicates a
barre chord
Fingered
notes
5 4 3 2 1 Strings
Left-hand
fingering
Fret numbers
Mute or don’t play this string
T
A
B
4th string, 5th fret
Open G chord
1st string, 10th fret
2nd string, 10th fret
String
numbers
Count:
Whole note (4 beats)
Half notes (2 beats)
Quarter notes (1 beat)
2 3 4 2 4 1 2 3 4
Eighth notes (½ beat)
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
Frets Left hand fingering
Root
6th string
Fret numbers
Scale tones
7 8 9 10
1st string
Roman Numerals
Here is a review of Roman numerals and their Arabic equivalents.
I or i................1
II or ii.............2
III or iii...........3
IV or iv..........4
V or v.............5
VI or vi...........6
VII or vii........7
VIII or viii.....8
IX or ix...........9
X or x...........10
XI or xi.........11
XII or xii.......12
XIII or xiii....13
XIV or xiv....14
XV or xv.......15
XVI or xvi....16
XVII or xvii..17
XVIII or xviii..188
Some Terms and Signs
Repeat. Return to the beginning or the nearest and
play again.
Half Step. A distance of one fret on the guitar.
Whole Step. Equals two half steps, distance of two frets on
the guitar.
Flat. Lower the note one half step (one fret).
Sharp. Raise the note one half step (one fret).
Natural. Cancels a sharp or flat.
Italiano
English
