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Emery - Guitar From Scratch - Guitar Method

Skeptical Guitarist Publ

Emery - Guitar From Scratch - Guitar Method

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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

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