Skeptical Guitarist

Author: Bruce Emery
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Guitar

This book is intended for guitar teachers and their students, in both group and private settings. The information, condensed from other titles in the Guitar From Scratch series, is presented here in a more direct manner with less detailed explanation. The text has been stripped down to the essential information, so the teacher has room to put his or her own personal stamp on the material. This book uses chord diagrams and tablature to get the student playing easy material ASAP: chords first, some strumming and fingerpicking, then on to melodies, basslines and scales, and even introducing Twelve Bar Blues and some basic blues improvisation on the Pentatonic Scale

Table of Contents:

• Preliminaries
• Guitar parts
• Fretting diagrams and notes
• Relative tuning
• Basic chords: Em, E, Am, C, G, D
• G chord family
• Rhythm changes
• C chord family
• Strumming: rock, folk, country
• D chord family
• Seventh chords
• A and E chord families
• Jazz chords
• Suspended chords
• Anchor chords
• Fingerpicking: arpeggios & Travis
• Chords up the neck
• Power chords
• Barre chords: E and A shape
• Capo use
• Extensive chord listing
• Slash chord progressions
• Single note playing
• Bass runs in different keys
• Melodies
• Hammer-ons
• Major scales: C, G, D, A, E
• Minor scales
• The Blues
• 12 bar blues in E
• Blues shuffle
• Blues lead playing in E
• Pentatonic minor scale
• 12 bar blues and shuffle in A
• Playing blues lead up the neck
• Major pentatonic scale: G and C