Cracknell, Debbie - Enjoy Playing Guitar Tutor Book 1 + CD

A revised edition in the popular Enjoy Playing Guitar series, Tutor Book 1 introduces the basics of classical guitar playing and develops the all-round musician. The CD, recorded by the author, provides interactive support, in addition to demos for each of the solo/ensemble pieces. The perfect book for today's aspiring player.

CONTENTS

• The basics
• Parts of the guitar
• Sitting position
• Right-hand position
• Left-hand position
• The rest stroke
• Strings and frets
• The first string
• 4/4 time
• Two-Note Hop
• Two-Note Jump
• March
• A Stroll
• Jogging
• Counting: Crotchets and minims
• Conversation
• 3/4 time
• Waltz
• The second string
• Bees and Cees
• I. C. A. B.
• Bees and Dees
• Solo
• Copycat
• Echo
• Counting rests
• Tunes using the first two strings
• Slow Train
• Go, tell Aunt Nancy
• Two into One
• Indigo Blues
• Counting: Dotted minims and semibreves
• Little Bird
• Jingle Bells
• Old Time Minuet
• The third string
• Yankee Doodle
• Au Clair de la Lune
• Good King Wenceslas
• Dance
• The open bass strings
• The Low Down
• The Russian Girl (duet)
• Barcarolle
• Open bass strings plus treble notes
• Thumb, Finger, Finger
• Serenade
• Inca Dawn
• Summary of all the open strings
• Introducing quavers
• Happy Birthday
• London's Burning
• Frere Jacques
• Oh Sinner Man!
• A March for Two Guitars
• Home on the Range
• The Tie
• Summer Waltz
• The free stroke
• The right-hand fingers
• Open-string exercises
• Free-stroke tunes using fingered notes
• Vals Triste
• Theme and Variation
• Introducing F sharp
• G Major Scale
• Scale Study
• (Meet) the Flintstones
• El Coqui (The Tree-Frog)
• The Key Signature
• Andante in G
• Waltz (F. Carulli)
• Fourth-string notes
• Camelot
• A Blues Duet
• 6/4 time
• The Natural
• The Ash Grove
• Shalom Chaverim
• Dreaming
• Introducing G sharp
• Invention
• Study in A Minor
• Pony Trek
• The Cossacks
• Malaguena
• Dotted rhythms
• Auld Lang Syne
• The First Nowell
• The Lutenist
• 6/8 time
• Row, row, row your boat
• Irish Jig
• Country Jig
• Introducing C sharp and B flat
• Manhattan Nights
• Oasis
• Cowboy Blues
• Turkish Dance
• Fifth-string notes
• Song of the Volga Boatmen
• The Wasp
• C Major Scale
• Silent Night
• Playing thumb and fingers together
• The Russian Girl (solo)
• Summer is
• Icumen in
• Pastoral
• Sixth-string notes
• Siesta
• More work on bass notes
• E minor Pentatonic Scale
• The Condor
• More playing in two parts/voices
• Three in One
• Two's Company
• The Coventry Carol
• Andante in C
• Another (bass) F sharp and C sharp
• Greensleeves
• Match of the Day