When a student begins lessons the parents are also entering a new world of learning and support that they've often never experienced. "Help! My Kid is Taking Music Lessons" guides the parent in supporting the learning process and helps familiarize them with the critical role of parenting a young musician. This book is a god-send for both the teacher and parent. Also included is a "Glossary for the Musically-Challenged Parent."

More than just a note-speller, this work has exercises in which the student writes either the note-name, the note (on the staff) or the note location on the fingerboard through first position. In addition, the second half of the book has dozens of games, puzzles, word search, mazes (and more) that teach the student names of dynamics, articulation, tone color, parts of the guitar, effects on the guitar and note rhythms. This is the most innovative and enjoyable note-speller ever written to ...

This comprehensive, illustrated text offers an in-depth look at the mechanics and musical thought process of teaching the classical guitar the "why" rather than the "how" the classical guitarist does things a certain way. In the author's words, "Classical Guitar Pedagogy is the study of how to teach guitarists to teach." This university-level text will be of enormous assistance to the teacher in explaining the musical, anatomical, technical, and psychological underpinning of guitar perform...

If you have ever wanted to learn how to play jazz guitar but didn't know where to start. Then Essential Jazz Guitar Chords eBook will help you by teaching you the 100 most popular jazz guitar chords.We'll also look at jazz harmony and how to create chords for every situation.

Teach how to play classical guitar for kids with our easy classical guitar lessons for kids.***Comes with online access to free classical guitar videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.***"This book contains easy classical pieces for guitar and is arranged very well for children. I have found this to b...

This book contains short and concise exercises for use in a warm-up before practice or performance, and for general technical advancement. The book is divided into four sections: I Arpeggios, II Scales, III Tremolo, and IV Slurs. Each section contains a description of the exercises and general instructions on how to play them. The exercises are intended for guitarists who are looking for a simple warm-up that does not require learning many complicated etudes, exercises or routines. In this...

Get Started with Blues Guitar eBook is essential reading for any guitarist. Most players don't start with the Blues and if you haven't you're missing some of the building blocks of guitar-based music.This eBook will guide you through the basics of the style including forms, chords, scales and much more.

The premise of Kitharologus is that "Guitar technique is made up of a limited number of procedures with an unlimited number of applications. Therefore, a sound technical methodology is not one that tries to cover all possible forms of a given procedure, but rather one that identifies and trains the essential mechanism which makes the procedure, in all its forms, possible". Covering all grades from novice to expert, this book is certain to be enthusiastically embraced by any classical guita...

Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy classical guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free guitar videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.***"Best teacher on paper! I’ve always wanted to learn how to play a guitar. It amazes me how I was able to learn so fast." - Joe McDougal...

Teach yourself to play classical guitar masterpieces with this great classical guitar sheet music collection, carefully arranged for the classical guitar player.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.***"Very nice collection! Wonderfully done. Waldron presents his books with wisdom in their progression of difficulty. Lovely arrangements!!! Excellent. A good suppleme...

New classical guitar edition of the world-leading Mel Bay Modern Guitar Method, written by well-known concert guitarist and teacher Stanley Yates. The beginning classical guitarist will learn music reading, hand and sitting positions, practice techniques, arpeggio and scale technique, chordal and melodic playing, and solo and duet playing in the first position.Many of the exercises and study pieces include accompaniments that can be played along with a teacher during lessons or wit...

(Book). We proudly present the fifth edition of Maurice J. Summerfield's highly acclaimed ultimate reference book on the classical guitar. This brand new book features all the original biographical entries updated with new photographs where applicable, plus 100 new biographical entries in the players, composers and makers section for a total of over 485. This new edition gives the reader a full and clear picture of the classical guitar's development since the beginning of the nineteenth ce...