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FINGERSTYLE EXPLORATIONS, JONAS MOLLBERG Book/CD GUITAR standard notation & TABLATURE mel bay

FINGERSTYLE EXPLORATIONS, JONAS MOLLBERG. CD TABLATURE

The purpose of this material is to create a bridge between pop and rock music and the traditional guitar repertoire. As a guitar instructor, the author has often wished there was material based on classical guitar technique but at the same time sounding more like modern, popular music. He also felt a need for a body of literature which is idiomatic and really makes use of the possibilities of the guitar, so he created these pieces. The pieces frequently use open strings as one way of releasing the magic of the guitar. Another prominent element is the use of arpeggio technique, which provides a continuous and natural flow of music. The book is aimed at guitar students as well as people who take delight in music that is melodious and easy to play but doesn't require too much technical skill to perform. The book is written in standard notation and tablature.

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EMMANUEL TOMMY FINGERSTYLE GUITAR METHOD CD TABLATURE LIBRO METODO CHITARRA FINGERPICKING

EMMANUEL TOMMY, FINGERSTYLE GUITAR METHOD. CD TABLATURE

LIBRO METODO PER CHITARRA ACUSTICA, CON CD. 

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The incomparable Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel presents four fingerstyle exercises plus an arrangement of the classic tune Freight Train and two signature compositions- Mister Guitar and Dixie McGuire. This book would serve either as a reference text for one of Tommy's workshops or as a helpful guide to developing fingerstyle guitarists working on their own. All selections are written in notation and tablature for the guitar in standard tuning. A convenient chord chart is provided in the appendix. All of the selections in the book appear on the companion CD.

Intermediate to advanced in difficulty, playing these tunes literally involves the thumbs of both hands! Gaining flexibility and control of your left thumb, you too can play like TE!

 

Dictation Notes with Tommy Emmanuel Getting Started on Fingerstyle ...

GETTING PREPARED

• Make sure your guitar is set up so it is comfortable for you to play.
• Choose a good set of strings
• Get in tune ...
TUNING
• If you have an electronic tuner and you just tune acoustically, that is fine.
• If you plug into a tuner, make sure you turn the microphone off.
• When you have a pick up in your guitar and you plug into the tuner, put the midrange flat out or on the lever,
whichever you understand. That gives the tuner, a real accurate tuner, a sparky signal and you will be able
to get your guitar really and truly in tune.
• It is always a good idea to practice tuning up as well as playing the guitar so you can get use to your guitar
sounding in tune. After a while you will find that you will end up training your own ear into what the sound
of being in tune really is.
NAILS ... ACRYLIC NAILS, NO NAILS OR FINGERPICKS
• What works for you?
• What sound are you going for?
CHOICE OF THUMBPICK
• I use Dunlop medium thumb pick ... not too big, small, thin, or thick ... it is right in the middle, like a
plectrum, but it is wrapped around your thumb.
• Some people use the slick picks, which are thinner.
• It depends on what kind of dynamic or strength you play with. Personally, if I use a slick pick, it would
probably fly across the room after the first bass note.
• I like something that hangs on to my thumb, doesn't make it turn blue on the end and it sticks on your thumb
properly.
• The thumb pick ~hould be pushed back so when you look at your thumb it is covering the end of your nail,
where it meets the flesh, first knuckle joint. When I look down at my thumb, it looks like there is 1/2 inch
of thumb sticking out.
• The thumb has to be independent to the fingers. It is important that you develop the thumb first before you
do anything with the fingers. You have to start training it. This takes time and dedication.
• In the key C. pick C, F, and G to play. Put your fingers down on the place of the guitar where the fret guard
is, down at the mouth. I rest the heal of my palm, the corner of the heal down and I take a little bit of
resonance out of the string to give it that music sound. Leave your fingers down and start with the A string
on the 3rd fret of the C chord. When you can get this slow and steady and use to it, go to C, G, and C.
• It is very important that with each chord change, I start the bass note on the root note. When I am playing
in C, the first note you play is C. Whatever chord you are playing, the first bass note should be the root note,
the note of that chord.
• Practice slowly. Keep the fingers down. Do in any key, E, A, G, B, A ...
• Practice until you can get a good feel, groove going and playing the thumb without the fingers coming up.
Get the thumb going first.
• It is important for you to become good at tapping your foot when you play. Chet use to say, pat your foot. It
will help you with your groove and your time. It will put a bit of bounce and confidence into your playing
and timing. You need to have a good time.
• I always tap my foot on 1 and 3. The only time I don't tap on 1 and 3 is in an extreme situation where I
would playa song where for me to get the right feel on it I would tap on the other beat or where I would tap
like a bass drummer. 
(CONTITUA)
 

Contents

Holding Position

Fingerstyle Notation

Learning to Read Tablature

Dictation Notes with Tommy Emmanuel

Getting Started On Fingerstyle Guitar

Tom's Thumb

Freight Train (simple version)

Freight Train

Mr. Guitar

Dixie McGuire

Thumbpickers Chord Chart  

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EMMANUEL TOMMY ONLY Biskie-DriveTime-Luttrell-Mombasa-padre-Questions-robin-GUITAR TABLATURE LIBRO

EMMANUEL TOMMY, ONLY. GUITAR TABLATURE

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NOTE FOR NOTE TRANSCRIBED SOLOS FROM THE ALBUM BY TOMMY EMMANUEL Certified Guitar Player.

Tommy Emmanuel has electrified audiences across the globe. This book contains note-for-note transcriptions of solos from Emmanuel's album Only in standard notation and tablature. Transcribed by Mark Pritcher.

 

TOMMY EMMANUEL
Hailed by Chet Atkins as "Without a doubt, one of the greatest guitar players on the
planet," Tommy Emmanuel has electrified audiences from Steve Kaufman's diminutive
Palace Theater in Maryville, Tennessee to the closing ceremony of the 2000 Olympics
in Sydney, Australia. Having concertized throughout much of the civilized world, this
dynamic performer who, in his words "happens to be a pretty good guitarist," made his
way to the fabled competition in Winfield Kansas as a guest artist for the first time in
2000. Shortly before Tommy's performances there, parking lot pickers were said to
have ceasedjamming and moved trance like in droves to a venue designed to hold perhaps 500,
now packed with three times that number ali to hear Tommy Emmanuel play
an acoustic guitar!
Although he has acted as a mentor to a dedicated few young guitarists in his native
Australia, Tommy seems destined to make his mark performing on the world stage. His
impeccable taste, flawless technique, and engaging personality have inspired fans and
critics alike.
 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I sincerely hope that you enjoy learning these works of art from Tommy's CD
"QNLY". Many thanks to Tommy for the joy that his music brings usoThe folks at Mel
Bay have been very gracious in providing space for the entire tunes. There is enough
variation in the choruses to make "repeats" impractical and I couldn't bear to leave
anything out. Italian guitarist Daniele Bazzani had worked on these tunes independently
and was kind enough to supply me with his notes early on, and that made my
task easier. Thanks to Brett Wood for help with some "impossible" licks. These tunes vary in difficulty, and please remember that interpreting notes and positions by ear can be subjective at best! Feel free to let me know if you have questions about the music. And very special thanks
to my wife Carol and daughter Katelynn, who allowed me to take on this project. I
Mark Pritcher, Tennessee
 

THOSE WHO WAIT Played with a plectrum (straight pick) 6th string = D; guitar tuned down 1/2 step

"We learn so much in life/ dont we? Ufe is our teacher. Ufe is the school/ and if we're
smart we learn the lessons and learn from each other. I think one of the hardest things
that I've ever had to learn is patience; and trust and faith in believing that things are
going to work out. That's really hard to learn/ to be patient. That's what this song is
about. About truly trusting that if your motives are right/ and everything about you is
heading in the right direction/ then there is no way that you can go wrong. /'
The plectrum is held by the thumb and first finger, and you then use the pick and your
second and third fingers to play the strings. This is sometimes called "hybrid picking".
For a given tune, and a desired effect, the plectrum gives a different sound than the
thumb pick. But if you have never played in this style it can be a challenge. Take it slow
and easy and you will get it! It is not practical to put a plectrum direction on each note,
but you can lay your right hand on the strings, and get a feel for what strings the pick
contacts, and which strings your second and third fingers touch comfortably. If this
style is new to you, go through the tune first using thumb and three fingers, and when
you are familiar with it, you can start on the hybrid technique. It is helpful to study
Tommy's performance videos or DVD's and watch his right hand. Also the fingering is
often critical. In places, fingering can be an individual thing, and you play the way your
left hand feels the best. But most of the time that I have indicated fingering, it is
because it is as Tommy intended it to be played. What seems to be awkward at times,
usually turns out to be brilliant because he has a way of making the melodic ideas flow
together, due in large part to the choice of fingering.
In this tune the tempo is fairly even throughout. It starts with natural harmonics at the
seventh fret, as you lay your first finger across the neck. Tommy uses his left-hand
thumb often to fret the 6th string. This is the case with the opening motif, starting
with the bass in measure 4. For the most part, let notes ring and sustain whenever possible,
even if it is not indicated in the music. Tommy's left hand reach is remarkable, as
you can tell from the five fret stretch in measure 26. Measure 32 has one of the awkward
fingerings on the hammer-on that will take some practice! The left hand thumb
is put to use again for the passage starting in measure 37. In measure 82, there is a
quick natural harmonic on the fifth string, and then you use your left hand to play the
hammer-on on the sixth string.

 

 

- Biskie

- DriveTime

- I've Always Thought Of You

- Luttrell

- Mombasa

- Ol Brother Hubbard

- Padre

- Questions

- Sonce We Met  

- Stay Close to Me

- The Robin

- Those Who Wait

- Timberlake Road

- Train to Dusseldorf. 

 

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FAHEY JOHN AMERICAN PRIMITIVE GUITAR 3CD TABLATURE LIBRO Indian Pacific Railroad Blues

FAHEY JOHN, AMERICAN PRIMITIVE GUITAR. In Christ There Is No East Or West -Take A Look At That Baby -Some Summer Day -Indian Pacific Railroad Blues -The Last Steam Engine Train -When The Springtime Comes Again -The Approaching Of The Disco Void. SHEET MUSIC BOOK WITH 3CD & GUITAR TABLATURE. 

LIBRO DI MUSICA ACUSTICA, CON 3 CD. 

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... in roots music as a living, breathing thing rather than a museum piece. Industrial guitar grind dominates City Of Refuge, bathyspherelike booms echo through Womblife. White gamelan sounds reverberate through The Epiphany Of Glenn Jones. Such experimentation might have isolated him from his peers through most of the last 30 years, but in the 90s he has discovered an affinity with the ever expanding global underground communitY. "I didn't know there was an alternative movement going," Fahey admits, "so I just kept trying to create similar things to the old. I was aware that there had been an experimental movement in the 60s with John Cage and his followers, but thought they had all gone. Then some friends introduced me to Sonic Youth. Until then I didn't know what was going on.
"As defined by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, this "alternative movement" was out of a desire for music resistant to "commodification", be it noise, lo-fi, 20th century experimental music and improv, or global and rediscovered American roots musics like bluegrass, folk and blues.
John Fahey's work feeds the new underground spirit on a number of counts, while Revenant - the label Fahey co-owns with his manager, the Nashville-based attorney Dean Blackwood - alerts new audiences to a hidden history of American music, retrieved from the tiny regional labels scattered across its rural hinterlands.
The surprising success of the six CD box set reissue of rogue archivist Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music (for which Fahey supplied award-winning sleevenotes) attests to a desire for music that emerges from and addresses real experiences rather than a marketing man's business plan. The Revenant archive releases, meanwhile, vividly recast the past not as nostalgia but as American Primitive or Raw Music. "It was Dean's idea to do that," Fahey modestly states, "but I provided most of the information, together with this collector called Gayle Dean Wardlow. Now that the American Primitive thing is catching on we'll do more. People love the title" The range of his enthusiasms combined with the breadth of his own music make Fahey a vital link connecting today's underground with a century of raw and experimental musics. For his part, he is only too pleased to be working within his newly adopted alternative music 'community'. His instant conversion has already produced one of its finest works in The Epiphany Of Glenn Jones, which teamed John with the Massachusetts post-rockers Cui De Sac, led by Glenn Jones. The title refers obliquely to the project's unpromising start as a "retro lounge music" session - quickly aborted - which Jones's sleeve notes describe as being akin to taking part In some "hellish sensory deprivation experiment". Was working with Fahey really that bad?
The guitarist chuckles mischievously: "Glenn told me after the Epiphany that he had got on a power trip. It had happened to him before, only he hadn't realized it. He did things like not letting me meet the other members of the band until the recording sessions, all kinds of tricks, so that he could remain ultimate dictator of Cui De Sac and the project. But that's an old battle, Glenn's a friend of mine and it came out OK."

AMERICAN PSYCHO
When Fahey was venting his disgust for his 60s recordings earlier on, he went at them with a ferocity out of all proportion to the quality of music. His negative attitude hinted that something deeper was going down than a mature reappraisal of his youthful endeavours. Eventually, his hostility relents, and the negativity lets up long enough to reveal the pain at its source.
"Mainly it's a parental situation:' Fahey explains, washing down more popcorn with gulps of sweet iced tea. "I was writing these things as an escape, as a possible way to make money. The sentiments expressed come out of a messed up situation. I was creating for myself an imaginary, beautiful world and pretending that I lived there, but I didn't feel beautiful. I was mad but I wasn't aware of it. I was also very sad, afraid and lonely. By presenting this so-called beautiful facade I looked good to myself and my audience.
"This went on for years," he continues. "I always tried to put a peaceful element into the music, but it was false because I was not at peace. I didn't know what 1was doing and felt pretty phony. I didn't understand any of this until I had psychoanalysis."
Entering psychoanalysis in the mid-80s helped him exorcise the past. "Before psychoanalysis:' Fahey recalls, "I used to accidentally get so high on prescription drugs and booze that, sometimes, I wouldn't show up for a show. Or I'd be there and not know it. For a while I thought 1was going insane. People would tell me I did these crazy things, but I didn't attribute it to the Quaaludes I was taking so that the memories of my father abusing me as a child wouldn't come back."
In taking Fahey back to the source of his traumas psychoanalysis invested the innocent symbols he had carried over from his childhood with sinister new meanings. Out of a boy's fascination with turtles and tortoises, he had elaborated a personal mythology based on the reptiles, using them as a repeat motif anchoring his art and discography in his childhood.
Under analysis he recalled how he burst out screaming when he first saw a turtle. "When I was about four or five years old I saw what I thought was a penis walking across the front lawn:' he shudders. "It was just a box turtle, but it kind of upset me ..."
Analysis related the encounter to the memory of being sexually molested by his father. "The obsession comes from the psychic meaning of turtles, reptiles and amphibians. In dreams they symbolize genitalia. That's why I went to a psychoanalyst because I had all these repressed memories." The unifying visual motif of his personal mythology and extensive discography turned out to be the corrupting agent of their potential destruction all alone. Remarkably, coming to terms with the full horror of such a revelation marked the beginning of Fahey's 90s regeneration.

AMERICAN PRIMITIVE
John Fahey was born on 28 February 1939 and spent most of his childhood in Takoma Park, Maryland, a small town on the outskirts of Washington DC. His early musical training was at once formal and frustrating. His parents occasionally took him to see 50s bluegrass stars like The Stanley Brothers, whose early recordings Fahey would later reissue on Revenant. But though he grew up with Country & Western and bluegrass, his first instrument was a clarinet. He abandoned it at 14 when he bought his first guitar, a $17 Sears And Roebuck special, with money earned from his newspaper round. After teaching himself to pick his way through the Eddy Arnold songbook, the young, lonely and slightly crazy guitar player decided it was time to start writing his own material. The year was 1954, and Elvis Presley was just beginning to make waves in America. If the young Fahey readily embraced the ...

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DOBBINS CRAIG HYMNS FOR FINGERSTYLE GUITAR CD TABLATURE BOOK LIBRO SPARTITI

DOBBINS CRAIG, HYMNS FOR FINGERSTYLE GUITAR. SHEET MUSIC BOOK with CD GUITAR TABLATURE .

Complete note-for-note transcriptions of twelve best-loved traditional hymns and gospel songs.

Includes: O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing, At the Cross, Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus, Sweet Hour of Prayer, The Old Rugged Cross, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Since Jesus Came into My Heart, Amazing Grace, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, There is a Fountain, In the Garden, and Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross.

All songs are fully transcribed in standard notation and tablature, plus performance notes and background information on each song. 46 pages, CD included.

"Craig Dobbins' beautifully played and richly harmonized arrangements sound so perfect on the guitar, you wonder why every church doesn't retire its organist and hire a really good fingerpicker."
-Jim Ohlschmidt, writer, Acoustic Guitar magazine

Acoustic Masters. (Craig Dobbins' Hymns for Fingerstyle Guitar). By Craig Dobbins. For Guitar. Guitar Method or Supplement. Acoustic Masters Series. Acoustic; Fingerstyle. Book & CD. 52 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.0011B).

 

ISBN 1576239748. Acoustic; Fingerstyle.

Craig Dobbins has tastefully arranged this beautiful collection of hymns to be easily playable and yet worthy of concert and solo recital performance. All the music is written in standard notation and tablature, and performed beautifully on the included CD. Selections include: Amazing Grace * In the Garden * O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing * The Old Rugged Cross * Sweet Hour of Prayer * There Is a Fountain and more.

 

Amazing Grace
In the Garden
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing

The Old Rugged Cross

Sweet Hour of Prayer

There Is A Fountain

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DYKES DOYLE VIRTUOSO FINGERSTYLE GUITAR LIBRO CD TABLATURE CHITARRA-GIRL-COUNTRY FIED PICKIN'

DYKES DOYLE, ACOUSTIC MASTERS SERIES VIRTUOSO FINGERSTYLE GUITAR. SHEET MUSIC BOOK with CD & GUITAR TABLATURE .

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Doyle Dykes / transcr. Jon Chappell
SERIES: Acoustic Masters Series
CATEGORY: Guitar Method or Supplement
FORMAT: Book & CD

Doyle Dykes is the natural heir to Chet Atkins' throne. This Nashville-based virtuoso fingerstyle guitarist plays solo guitar arrangements of originals, hymns, and secular pop music with astounding feel and unheard-of technique. This volume includes Doyle's original guitar compositions and his hugely popular arrangement of The Beatles' song "Girl." Songs are:

Includes the Following Selection:
Title Composer

ANGEL'S DESIRE
DOYLE DYKES

BIRMINGHAM STEELE
DOYLE DYKES

CALEB'S REPORT
DOYLE DYKES

CELTIC COWBOY
DOYLE DYKES

CHANGING OF THE GUARD, THE
DOYLE DYKES

COUNTRY FIED PICKIN'
DOYLE DYKES

GIRL
LENNON, JOHN / MCCARTNEY, PAUL

HOWLING OF THE WOOD
DOYLE DYKES

JAWBONE, THE
DOYLE DYKES

MARTHA'S KITCHEN
DOYLE DYKES

MISS HALEY'S MUSIC BOX
DOYLE DYKES

MISTY NIGHTS IN TOKYO
DOYLE DYKES

ROAD BACK HOME, THE
DOYLE DYKES

SELF PORTRAIT ON ACOUSTIC GUITAR
DOYLE DYKES

VISITATION, THE
DOYLE DYKES

WABASH CANNON BALL (PRINT ONLY)
A.P. CARTER

WHITE ROSE FOR HEIDI
DOYLE DYKES

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DYKES DOYLE DYKESOLOGY LIBRO CD GUITAR TABLATURE LIBRO Jazz In the Box-Zaccheus-Amazing Grace

DYKES DOYLE, DYKESOLOGY. CD TABLATURE

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- Jazz In the Box

- Zaccheus

- Twin Six Shooters

- The Lord's Prayer 

- Laguna Sand

- Mission of St. Holli

- Loving Rita

- Gitarre 2000 

- Amazing Grace

- And Can It Be?

 

Paperback: 79 pages
Publisher: Mel Bay; MB98626BCD edition (1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 078665063X
ISBN-13: 978-0786650637

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D'AGOSTINO PEPPINO-NEW ACOUSTIC GUITAR-CD TABLATURE LIBRO SPARTITI CHITARRA ACUSTICA

New Acoustic Guitar contiene 12 brillanti arrangiamenti di Peppino chitarra (11 brani originali, più la sua bella versione di "Walk Away Renée", come registrato con David Wilcox). Inoltre, Peppino fornisce numerose e semplici lezioni di accordi di melodie folk per aiutare a familiarizzare con la varietà delle accordature aperte.

LIBRO DI MUSICA PER CHITARRA ACUSTICA.

SPARTITI PER CHITARRA CON ACCORDI, PENTAGRAMMA E TABLATURE. 

Il libro illustra:

Arrangiamento per chitarra sola
Composizione
accordature Alternate
Chord voicing
Tecniche fingerstyle
Il CD allegato contiene tutti i 24 brani ed esempi musicali e tutta la musica è scritta in notazione standard e tablature.

 

STANDARD TUNING:

Calypso Facto

Song for Carol (Duet)

Mediterranean Dance

DADGAD TUNING:

Rondo alla Turca

Echo of Delphi Valley

Acoustic Spirit

EBBF#BE TUNING:

House of the Rising Sun

Goodbye Robbie

Grand Canyon

DAC#EBC# TUNING:

Silent Night

Walk Away Renée


FBbDFCD TUNING:

Mademoiselles de Paris

Aleza's Eyes

Close to Heaven

DADF#AD TUNING:

The Entertainer

Bella Donna

EBEGAD TUNING:

Star of the County Down

Mother's Tears

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DE GRASSI ALEX GUITAR COLLECTION TABLATURE children's dance-causeway-Inverness-Western

DE GRASSI ALEX, GUITAR COLLECTION. SHEET MUSIC BOOK with GUITAR TABLATURE .

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Contiene:

-children's dance

-causeway

-Inverness

-McCormick

-mirage

-overland

-slow circle II

-southern exposure

-turning -Western. 

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COMPLETE FINGERSTYLE GUITAR METHOD MASTERING Steve Eckels CD TABLATURE CHITARRA

COMPLETE FINGERSTYLE GUITAR METHOD, MASTERING. Eckels. CD TABLATURE

Complete Fingerstyle Guitar Method: Mastering Fingerstyle Guitar
By Steve Eckels
Item: 00-17814
UPC: 038081158594
ISBN 10: 0739016555
ISBN 13: 9780739016558

Category: Guitar Method or Supplement
Format: Book & CD
Instrument: Guitar
This advanced volume in the comprehensive method for fingerstyle guitar is perfect for experienced players who want to add greater variety, refinement, and creativity to their playing. Develops skillful tone production and dynamic control, and covers the free-stroke, rest-stroke, shifting, tremolo, planting, and inventive techniques used by contemporary fingerstyle masters like left-hand tapping, right-hand tapping, drumming, and "the scrape." Also includes unusual alternate tunings, ideas for creating your own new tunings, and arranging. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB, and the CD demonstrates all the examples in the book. 96 pages. 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Steve Eckels received his Bachelor's degree in guitar from Berklee College of Music and his Master's degree in guitar and jazz at New England Conservatory. His teachers have included Robert Paul Sullivan, Gene Burtoncini, William Leavitt, Chuck Wayne, Barry Galbraith, Gary Burton and Pat Metheny. In addition to concert and public engagements, he now teaches guitar at New Mexico State University at Las Cruces. He is the author of seven guitar folios, and has recorded 18 albums and Cds.

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to express a special thank you to those authors from whom I have learned so much: Joseph Schillinger, Yehudi Menuhin, Ivan Galamian, George Van Eps, Vincent Persichetti, Lee F.Ryan, Mark Hanson, Mick Goodrick and John Stropes. Special thanks to my violin teacher, Dr. Frank McDonald, to my friend Joe Mancilla for assistance with alternate tunings and to my editor, Nat Gunod, for his meticulous attention to detail and pedagogy.

 

INTRODUCTION

Greetings, and welcome to Mastering Fingerstyle Guitar. Most of you have already traveled the trail of Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar and Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar, and are ready for the next step in your fingerstyle adventure. This book will introduce you to new musical ideas and subtle techniques that will help you reach your potential as a fingerstyle player, arranger and composer. To help guide you along your way, I have prepared examples that are musical, educational and enjoyable. Since my approach is based in art and nature, which are things common to us all, you may find yourself saying, "Of course, why didn't I think of that?" Don't worry, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Contained in the following pieces of music are gems of wisdom that I have gathered from studying the masters of guitar, violin and composition for the past thirty years. One of the most satisfying parts of this book was composing the examples for the sections on alternate tunings and modern tapping and drumming techniques. If your background is in the traditional approach to guitar, as mine was, you might find yourself a bit hesitant about venturing into these areas. The good news is that the learning approach presented here is based on what you already know. You can and should learn to perform in alternate tunings and incorporate drumming and tapping into your playing. Primordially speaking, I think we are all drummers at heart. These modern techniques are satisfying and can greatly expand your creative potential. Another component of this book that I feel will be very helpful to you is the chapter on developing your sense of touch. In learning guitar, touch is one of the most neglected areas of discussion. It is assumed that you just press down on the fret, and that's it. There are some subtleties involved can make your playing more effortless and flowing. One of the advantages of studying out of a book such as this is that you can make steady progress, page by page. Nevertheless, be open to the idea of making a giant step forward in your playing. It can happen.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

About the Author 

Introduction .

Review .

 

CHAPTER 1-Tone and Balance .

Fingernail Care .

The Free Stroke .

The Rest Stroke .

The Thumb .

Alternating Rest and Free Stroke .

Planting .

Balanced Control .

 

CHAPTER 2-Exploring the Harp .

Harp Finger Pattern on Individual String .

Harp Finger Pattern Using Two Strings .

Harp Finger Pattern Using Three Strings .

Harp Finger Pattern Using Four Strings .

Harp Finger Pattern Using Five Strings .

Harp Finger Pattern Using Six Strings .

 

CHAPTER 3-Chord Formulas .

Chords in 2nds .

Chords in 3rds .

Chords in 4ths .

Mixed Intervals .

Drop-Two Voicings .

Drop-Three Voicings .

 

CHAPTER 4-Sense of Touch

Gray Tones .

Gray Tones Into Clear Tones .

Relaxing The Left Arm .

Shifting Technique: Impulse and Momentum .

Pussy Footing .

Square and Diagonal Frames .

Vibrato .

Bending Vibrato .

 

CHAPTER 5-Fingerstyle Speed .

Right Hand Preparation for Tremolo .

Coordinating Left-Hand Patterns With Right-Hand Tremolo .

Four-Note Left-Hand Patterns With Right-Hand Tremolo .

Three-Note Left-Hand Patterns With Right-Hand Tremolo .

Two-Note Left-Hand Patterns With Right-Hand Tremolo .

One-Note Left-Hand Patterns With Right-Hand Tremolo .

Speed Bursts .

Sequences .

 

CHAPTER 6 -Modern Techniques

Expression And Invention .

Left-Hand Tapping .

Left-Hand Tapping With Pull-Offs .

Left-Hand Tapping With Right-Hand Drumming .

Left-Hand Tapping With Left-Hand Drumming .

Left-Hand Tapping In Double Stops .

Left-Hand Tapping In Double Stops With Pull-Offs .

Left-Hand Tapping In Double Stops With Right-Hand Drumming .

Left-Hand Tapping In Double Stops With Left-Hand Drumming .

Right-Hand Tapping .

Left- And Right-Hand Tapping in Triple Stops .

TappingTriple Stops With Right- and Left-Hand Drumming & Introducing "The Scrape" .

Tapping Triple Stops in Triplets With Pull-Offs .

Tapping And Slapping The Blues In E .

Tapping And Drumming An A Minor Blues .

Tapping A Walking Bass Line For A Blues In E .

The Ostinato Pattern, Right-Hand String Stopping

and Slap Harmonics .

Tapping With Pull-Offs In Triplets .

Tapping With Pull-Offs In Sixteenth Notes .

Harmonics Combined In Intervals With Non-Harnmonics .

Artificial Harmonics .

Harmonics In Alternation With Non-Harmonics .

 

CHAPTER 7-Alternate Tunings .

Dorian Tunings: C, G, Eb,A, D .

Phrygian Tuning: C, G, Db, F,G, C .

Lydian Tuning: C, G, D, E, F#, B .

Mixolydian Tuning: C, G, Bb, E, G, C .

Major #5Tuning: D, G, D, G, B, D# .

Pentatonic Tunings: C, F,C, G,A, D .

Creating Your Own Arrangements In Altered Tunings .

Alternate Tunings Summary .

Alternate Tuning Note Guide .

 

CHAPTER 8 - Arranging And Composing .

The Creative Process-The Seed Metaphor .

Methodology .

A "To Do " List For Composers And Arrangers .

Arranging Scarborough Fair .

Rhythmic Variations .

Motivic Variations .

Melodic Elasticity .

Same Rhythm, Different Melody .

Harmonic Variations .

Modulation .

Structural And Rhythmic Mapping .

Playful Melodic Variation .

 

A compact disc is available for this book. This disc can make learning the examples in this book easier and more enjoyable. The symbol will appear at the beginning of every example or song:

Use the CD to make sure that you are capturing the feel of the examples, interpreting the rhythms correctly, and so on.

The track number below the symbol corresponds directly to the example or song you want to hear. Track I will help you tune to the CD. 

 

MASTERING FINGERSTYLE ECKELS


MASTERING FINGERSTYLE

ALL THREE BOOKS ARE LOADED WITH:
- Examples in standard music notation and TABLATURE
- Tons of fingerpicking patterns
- Plenty of complete songs in a variety of styles for you to learn
- Lessons on alternate tunings
- Lessons on every imaginable fingerstyle technique
- Techniques and theory for making your own fingerstyle arrangements


BEGINNING FINGERSTYLE GUITAR
by Lou Manzi
With this comprehensive book, you will enjoy getting started on fingerstyle guitar.
It's also great for more experienced players who want to "fill in the gaps" and enhance their knowledge. It teaches everything from basic chord theory and pattern picking to putting the melody in the bass, alternating bass, modes, "drop D" tuning and more. Loaded with fun examples to play,the final chapter also provides a selection of complete pieces in a variety of styles.


INTERMEDIATE FINGERSTYLE GUITAR
by Lou Manzi and Nat Gunod
The perfect continuation of Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar, this book is great for fingerstyle guitarists who know the basics and are ready to take the next step. Topics include alternate tunings, modes, fingerpicking patterns, barre chords, diatonic harmony, special techniques, bass lines and an exploration of styles ranging from Celtic and country blues to contemporary "new age" styles.
Also included is an essential chapter on arranging with a clever step-by-step approach.


MASTERING FINGERSTYLE GUITAR
by Steve Eckels
This advanced method for fingerstyle guitar is perfect for experienced players who want greater variety, refinement and creativity in their playing.You will start with an in-depth look at essential techniques such as tone production and dynamic control, free-stroke, rest-stroke, shifting, tremolo and planting. Moving on, you'll discover all the inventive techniques of the contemporary fingerstyle masters such as left-hand tapping, right-hand tapping, drumming and "the scrape." Topics also include unusual alternate tunings and ideas for creating your own new tunings. The arranging section from Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar is continued with even more creative and interesting ideas. This one-of-a-kind book is a must for any serious fingerstyle player.
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