Contenido
- INTRODUCTION
- A Very Brief History
- THE GUITAR AS A COMPOSITION AND ARRANGING TOOL
- Bass
- Harmony
- Melody
- Phrasing
- Voices and Voicings
- Arpeggios
- Finger Roll
- Open Strings
- Ornaments - Adjacent string ornaments
- Accompaniment
- FINDING YOUR VOICE
- BASIC GUITAR HARMONY
- Why Theory?
- Theory unique to the (Fingerstyle) guitar
- Chords (scales) in the Major and Minor Keys
- ?Amazing Grace? - two versions
- The Capo
- Chord Inversions
- ?Lo How a Rose E?er Blooming?
- MELODY
- What is Melody?
- Common Denominators of Simple Melodic Phrasing and Punctuation
- Writing Your Own Melody
- Using Your Ears
- RHYTHM
- Every musical composition sits on top of rhythm
- Rhythm makes music linear
- Terms
- OPEN TUNINGS
- Open Tunings - Characteristics
- Important Tip - Voicings
- Open Tuning - Stage awareness
- ?Boat Song?
- ?Sleepers Awake?
- COMPOSING
- Idiomatic
- Composing for the Guitar
- The
- The Phrase
- Development
- Form
- Basic Sonata Form
- Sonata Form
- The Bridge
- Introduction and Coda
- ?The Grey Sea?
- ARRANGING
- Preliminary things to keep in mind
- Parameters
- ?Early One Morning? (4 versions)
- Transposing
- Frailing
- ?Arkansas Traveler?
- ?Small Coals for Nailers?
- ADDING NOTES TO CHORDS
- ORNAMENTS AND BENDS
- MODERN - COMTEMPORARY FINGERSTYLE
- Percussion
- The Slap
- Tambura
- Tapping
- Damping
- Examples:
- ?October Prelude #2?
- ?All These Novembers?
- FINGERSTYLE JAZZ
- Melody, Harmony, Bass & Rhythm
- Jazz Chords
- Chord Voicings
- Ballad
- Swing Rhythm - Right-Hand Thumb
- Bossa Nov?Greensleeves?
- ?Tiny Bird?
- CELTIC
- ?Owen O? Rourke?
- ?Banks of the Bann?
- ?Broom of the Cowdenknowes?
- FINGER PICKING - TRAVIS THUMB AND BEYOND
- History and keeping the tradition
- A Word of Caution
- Travis Exercises
- ?The Fishing Blues?
- PLAYING YOUR COMPOSITIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS
- Playing your melody on the guitar - Legato
- Chromatic and F scales
- Tempo
- Dynamics
- Tone
- PERFORMANCE
- PRACTICE
- Slow Practice
- Clearing the Open Strings
- The Metronome
- Choosing Pieces
- Core Piece
- Satellite Pieces
- Mastering a Piece
- How to Get Through the Tough, Finger-Busting Places
- Playing Forte
- You can always take sound away
- Final thoughts
- WARM-UPS
- Left-Hand Hammer-on's & Pull off's
- Right Hand
- Patterns with chords
- Final Thoughts
- SITTING AND HAND POSITIONS
- Steel-String Resistance
- Structural Issues
- Left-Hand Thumb
- The Wrist
- Right-Hand Fingers and Thumb
- Nails
- MY APPROACH TO COMPOSITION
- EPILOGUE
- TUNING INDEX
- AUTHOR BIO