A Modern Method for Guitar - Volume 1

by William Leavitt

Description

The beginning-level book of this comprehensive method teaches a wide range of guitar and music fundamentals, including: scales, melodic studies, chord and arpeggio studies, how to read music, accompaniment techniques, special exercises for developing technique in both hands, a unique approach to voice leading using moveable chord forms, and more.

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May be the best at teaching sight-reading of standard notation. There is no TAB, which is a good thing for breaking the TAB habit. Decent exercises for scales and jazz chord voicings. The songs are hoplessly hokey, but grew on me. My only complaint is the last few keys covered of B flat, E flat, and A flat have minimal practice material compared to earlier keys.

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