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A guitar-playing practice guide with hundreds of warm-up and technique-building exercises
If you already play some guitar but need some practice, you're in the right place. Guitar Exercises For Dummies is a friendly guide that provides just enough need-to-know information about practicing scales, chords, and arpeggios in the context of specific skills and techniques to help you maximize its 400+ exercises and improve your guitar playing. (If you need instruction on topics like buying or tuning a guitar and playing basic chords, check out Guitar For Dummies.)
This practical book starts off with warm-up exercises (on and off-instrument) and then logically transitions to scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords, with a focus on building strength and consistency as well as refining technique. Each section helps you to practice correct hand and body posture and experience variations, such as fingering options and hand positions, and then ends with a brief musical piece for you to try. You can also practice incorporating other facets of musical performance in your exercises, such as:
Tempo
Time signature
Phrasing
Dynamics
The book wraps up with tips to help you maximize your practice time (like setting goals for each session), ways to improve your musicianship (such as studying other performers' body language), and an appendix that explains the accompanying website (where you can find audio tracks and additional information). Grab your guitar, grab a copy of Guitar Exercises For Dummies, and start perfecting your finger picking today.
P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Guitar Exercises For Dummies (9780470387665). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!
Auteur
Mark Phillips is a guitarist, arranger, author, and editor with more than 30 years in music publishing.
Jon Chappell is a multi-style guitarist, arranger, author, and journalist, and former editor of Guitar magazine.
Texte du rabat
Play full-length pieces and songs
Sharpen your guitar-playing skills This practice-oriented playbook is packed with hands-on technique builders, from warm-up exercises with scales to arpeggios, chords, and more. Brush up on guitar notation, wake up your fingers, and develop strength, speed, and dexterity. With more than 300 exercises in various keys, drills to perfect your playing, tips to maximize your practice time, and performance pieces to test your expanding skills, you'll be strumming the strings like a pro in no time. Inside...
Résumé
A guitar-playing practice guide with hundreds of warm-up and technique-building exercises
If you already play some guitar but need some practice, you're in the right place. Guitar Exercises For Dummies is a friendly guide that provides just enough need-to-know information about practicing scales, chords, and arpeggios in the context of specific skills and techniques to help you maximize its 400+ exercises and improve your guitar playing. (If you need instruction on topics like buying or tuning a guitar and playing basic chords, check out Guitar For Dummies.)
This practical book starts off with warm-up exercises (on and off-instrument) and then logically transitions to scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords, with a focus on building strength and consistency as well as refining technique. Each section helps you to practice correct hand and body posture and experience variations, such as fingering options and hand positions, and then ends with a brief musical piece for you to try. You can also practice incorporating other facets of musical performance in your exercises, such as:
Dynamics
The book wraps up with tips to help you maximize your practice time (like setting goals for each session), ways to improve your musicianship (such as studying other performers' body language), and an appendix that explains the accompanying website (where you can find audio tracks and additional information). Grab your guitar, grab a copy of Guitar Exercises For Dummies, and start perfecting your finger picking today.
*P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Guitar Exercises For Dummies (9780470387665). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn somethi
Contenu
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Conventions We Use in This Book 2
What You're Not to Read 3
Foolish Assumptions 3
How This Book Is Organized 4
Part 1: Preparing to Practice 4
Part 2: Scales and Scale Sequences 4
Part 3: Arpeggios and Arpeggio Sequences 4
Part 4: Chords and Additional Exercises 4
Part 5: The Part of Tens 4
Icons Used in This Book 5
Where to Go from Here 5
Part 1: Preparing to Practice 7
Chapter 1: Reviewing Guitar Fundamentals 9
Perfecting Your Practice Posture 9
Brushing Up On Guitar Notation 10
Decoding tablature 10
Comprehending chord diagrams 11
Interpreting neck diagrams 11
Recognizing rhythm slashes 12
Chapter 2: Warming Up for Your Practice Sessions 13
Preparing Your Body and Mind to Play 13
Limbering up your fingers 13
Reflecting on your breathing, relaxation, and focus 14
Waking Up Your Fingers with Some Practice Exercises 15
Single-note exercises 16
Chord exercises 17
Part 2: Scales and Scale Sequences 19
Chapter 3: Putting the Major Scales to Use in Your Playing 21
Practicing Five Major Scale Patterns 21
Major scale pattern #1 22
Major scale pattern #2 24
Major scale pattern #3 25
Major scale pattern #4 27
Major scale pattern #5 28
Applying Your Scale Work to Actual Pieces of Music 29
The First Noël 29
Bach's Minuet in G 31
Chapter 4: Adding Major Scale Sequences to Your Repertoire 33
Practicing Major Scale Sequences 34
Major scale sequences using pattern #1 34
Major scale sequences using pattern #2 36
Major scale sequences using pattern #3 38
Major scale sequences using pattern #4 39
Major scale sequences using pattern #5 40
Putting Your Sequence Skills to Work with a Few Songs 42
Oh, Them Golden Slippers 42
We Wish You a Merry Christmas 43
Chapter 5: Tackling the Three Minor Scales 45
Familiarizing Yourself with Natural Minor Scales 45
Natural minor scale pattern #1 46
Natural minor scale pattern #2 47
Natural minor scale pattern #3 49
Natural minor scale pattern #4 50
Natural minor scale pattern #5 51
Raising the Bar with Melodic Minor Scales 53
Melodic minor scale pattern #1 53
Melodic minor scale pattern #2 55
Melodic minor scale pattern #3 56
Melodic minor scale pattern #4 58
Melodic minor scale pattern #5 59
Harmonizing with Harmonic Minor Scales 60
Harmonic minor scale pattern #1 61
Harmonic minor scale pattern #2 62
Harmonic minor scale pattern #3 63
Harmonic minor scale pattern #4 65
Harmonic minor scale pattern #5 66
Playing Pieces Using the Three Minor Scal…