Skeptical Guitarist Guitar from Scratch - Emery - Guitar - Book/Audio Online

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

For the guitarist, it all begins here. This is where you'll learn to finger the most common simple chords and to switch back and forth between them in a timely manner. Along the way, you'll see which chords group together in different keys according to the great and powerful Circle of Fifths. After getting the left hand (fretting hand) under control, we turn to the right hand to explore the easiest and most common strumming and fingerpicking patterns.

This book is all about CHORDS: Major, minor and seventh chords, jazz chords, anchor chords, power chords and barre chords. Even if you've been playing for a while, you might want to check out this book. I've heard from several readers that Guitar From Scratch helped fill in certain gaps in their knowledge that they didn't know existed.

Table of Contents

• Preliminaries
• Choice of guitar
• Picks, capos and the neck
• Fretting and tuning
• Relative tuning
• Chords and chords
• E Minor chord
• Some principles
• E Major chord
• A Minor chord
• Switching from Em to Am
• C Major chord
• Switching from Em to Am to C
• G Major chord
• Switching between G and C
• Teamwork
• Sympathy and more G chords
• Song Examples
• D Major Chord
• The G Chord Family - song examples
• The Rhythm Changes
• F Major chord
• D Minor chord
• The C Chord Family - song examples
• Strumming Away
• Down-Up motion
• Notation
• Rock Strum Pattern
• Folk Strum Pattern
• Country Strum Pattern
• Hip Hop Strum Pattern
• The D Chord Family - song examples
• A Major chord
• B Minor and B Minor-seventh chords
• Seventh chords - D7, G7 and A7
• 1 - 4 - 5 substitutions
• The A Chord Family - song examples
• Switching from A to D to E to E7
• The E Chord Family - song examples
• B7 chord
• The Circle of Fifths
• Progressions in C, G and D
• Strumming, Part Two
• Escape hatch
• Jazz chords
• Major-seventh chords
• Minor-seventh chords
• Suspended chords
• Anchor chords
• Chord Review
• Fingerpicking
• Notation and the Tier System
• Arpeggios and Tablature
• Time
• Arpeggios in the wild
• Travis-Style fingerpicking
• 5/4 and 6/4 bass patterns
• Inside-Out picking patterns
• Outside-In picking patterns
• Pinch patterns
• Strumming, Part Three (variations)
• Power chords: E-shape and A-shape
• Barre chords: E-shape and A-shape
• 1 - 4 - 5 and Rhythm Changes
• Epilogue
• Appendix A: Bunches of Useful Chords
• Appendix B: Using the capo to make key changes