Emery - Guitar From Scratch - Guitar Method

For the guitarist, it all begins here.  This is where you’ll learn to finger the most common simple chords and to switch back and forth between them in a timely manner.  Along the way, you'll see which chords group together in different keys according to the great and powerful Circle of Fifths.  After getting the left hand (fretting hand) under control, we turn to the right hand to explore the easiest and most common strumming and fingerpicking patterns.

This book is all about CHORDS: Major, minor and seventh chords, jazz chords, anchor chords, power chords and barre chords.  Even if you’ve been playing for a while, you might want to check out this book. I’ve heard from several readers that Guitar From Scratch helped fill in certain gaps in their knowledge that they didn’t know existed.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Preliminaries
  Choice of guitar
  Picks, capos and the neck
  Fretting and tuning
  Relative tuning
  Chords and chords
  E Minor chord
  Some principles
  E Major chord
  A Minor chord
  Switching from Em to Am
  C Major chord
  Switching from Em to Am to C
  G Major chord
  Switching between G and C
  Teamwork
  Sympathy and more G chords
  Song Examples
  D Major Chord
  The G Chord Family - song examples
  The Rhythm Changes
  F Major chord
  D Minor chord
  The C Chord Family - song examples
  Strumming Away
  Down-Up motion
  Notation
  Rock Strum Pattern
  Folk Strum Pattern
  Country Strum Pattern
  Hip Hop Strum Pattern
  The D Chord Family - song examples
  A Major chord
  B Minor and B Minor-seventh chords
  Seventh chords - D7, G7 and A7
  1 - 4 - 5 substitutions
  The A Chord Family - song examples
  Switching from A to D to E to E7
  The E Chord Family - song examples
  B7 chord
  The Circle of Fifths
  Progressions in C, G and D
  Strumming, Part Two
  Escape hatch
  Jazz chords
  Major-seventh chords
  Minor-seventh chords
  Suspended chords
  Anchor chords
  Chord Review
  Fingerpicking
  Notation and the Tier System
  Arpeggios and Tablature
  ¾ Time
  Arpeggios in the wild
  Travis-Style fingerpicking
  5/4 and 6/4 bass patterns
  Inside-Out picking patterns
  Outside-In picking patterns
  Pinch patterns
  Strumming, Part Three (variations)
  Power chords: E-shape and A-shape
  Barre chords: E-shape and A-shape
  1 - 4 - 5 and Rhythm Changes
  Epilogue 
  Appendix A: Bunches of Useful Chords
  Appendix B: Using the capo to make key changes