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Book SynopsisIncreasingly, guitar study is offered alongside band, orchestra, and chorus in school music programs. This development has drawn a new population of students into those programs but has left music educators scrambling to developing meaningful, sequential courses of study that both meet the needs of these new students and align with state, county, and national curricula. Few available guitar methods are designed with the classroom in mind, and fewer still take a holistic approach to teaching and learning the instrument. In short, teachers are left to navigate a vast array of method books that cover a variety of styles and approaches, often without the confidence and experience necessary to know ''what to teach when.'' The Guitar Workbook: A Fresh Approach to Exploration and Mastery addresses the needs of these educators. Throughout the book''s 20 lessons, students are encouraged to explore the ways various guitar styles and notation systems differ, as well as the ways they support and c
Trade Review"The Guitar Workbook: A Fresh Approach to Exploration and Mastery is a unique and useful resource. The text is approachable and applicable to a wide range of guitar players and students. A great addition to the field of guitar education."-Julie Goldberg, Assistant Professor, Vandercook College of Music "The Guitar Workbook by Scott Seifried successfully provides a set of techniques that will allow students to pursue the style of guitar playing that most interests them. An understanding of the fundamentals of music theory as applied to the guitar is also presented. The writing style and choice of language is engaging and audience appropriate."-Jim Ferla, Classical Guitar Instructor, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh
Table of ContentsIntroduction Lesson 1: Holding the Guitar, Making a Sound and Reading Tablature Lesson 2: Reading Fretboard Diagrams and Playing Chords Lesson 3: Reading Staff Notation Lesson 4: Open Position Chords; Foundational Shape (FS) 3 Lesson 5: Playing Two Notes Together Creativity Project I Lesson 6: Eight Note Rhythms, Alternate Picking, and Chord Strumming Lesson 7: The Half Barre; Foundational Shapes 4 and 5 Lesson 8: Open Power Chords, the A Pentatonic Minor Scale, and twelve-Bar Blues Lesson 9: Building Triads, Harmonizing melodies, and Recognizing Chords Written on the Staff Lesson 10: Slash Chords, Suspensions, and Rests Creativity Project II Lesson 11: Finger-style Playing, Rest Stroke and Open Bass Strings Lesson 12: Embellished Chords and Advanced Strumming Patterns Lesson 13: Completing Open Position Lesson 14: Major Scales, Key Signatures, and Accidentals Lesson 15: Creating Bass Lines and Power Chords Creativity Project III Lesson 16: Right Hand Arpeggios Lesson 17: The Full Barre Lesson 18:Two Octave Scales - A and E Major Lesson 19: Music in Two Parts Lesson 20: Roman Numerals, Transposition and Chromatic Pitches Creativity Project IV Appendix A: Assessment Rubrics and Grading Appendix B: Suggested Resources for Further Study
