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The Curious Guitarist
Paperback
Music Instruction: GeneralMusic Instruction: Guitar
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 13 2023
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.53 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Written by guitar teacher Dan Dresnok-with over 30 years of experience teaching tens of thousands of students online and in-person-The Curious Guitarist is a comprehensive collection of guitar lessons, fretboard visualization, and music theory.
Revised and updated from the original 2013 book Guitar Lessons for the Curious Musician, this expanded edition covers essential concepts for rock, blues, jazz, and bluegrass players.
Fundamentals: Guitar anatomy, changing strings, beginner chords, warm-up exercises, and strumming patterns.
Rhythm & Music Theory: Rhythm theory, a 40-exercise rhythm test, reading music for guitar, ear training, intervals, finding the key, and the Nashville Number System.
Scales & Fretboard Visualization: Pentatonic scales (5 shapes and modal pentatonics), relative major and minor scales, single-string scales, open scales, the 7 relative modes, major and minor phrases, and fretboard mapping.
Chords & Arpeggios: Barre chords, scale chords, extended and altered chords, CAGED chords, dyads and double stops, chord tones, tone clusters, basic arpeggios, extended/altered arpeggios, and soloing over chords.
- Playing Techniques & Styles: Blues chords and soloing, Carter style strumming and chord walking, Rumba, harmonics, pedal tones, playing in 3rds, 4ths, and 5ths, and combining scales with arpeggios.
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