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The skills you'll practice in these lessons are: * Use of the right hand fingers (including the thumb) correctly; * Alternating "i.m." fingers. If you use alternating fingers rather than just play with the one repeating finger your tone and overall sound will be much better. It is a most common mistake of beginning players to use one finger and you need to be aware of WHAT you are doing WHEN you are doing it to make it a good habit. * Using a combination of "open" (no fingers of left hand used) and closed (left hand fingers employed) strings; * Apoyando (rest stroke); * Tirando (rest stroke); * Using the thumb of the right hand to play bass line melodies; * Developing more speed and fluency; * Developing good habits from the start; * Developing your reading of music notation and guitar tablature; * Counting beats and rhythms, including tied notes and developing musical awareness; * Developing the ability to play musically using legato (smooth and connected playing), staccato (short and detached notes), basic harmonics and develop your dynamic range (soft to loud). These beginner guitar lessons are relatively easy and so enable you to practice all the above technical and musical requirements with as little stress as possible. Indeed, the pieces are generally graded from very easy to moderately hard.
Additionally there are two duets which include two guitar parts, typically melody and bass. After learning each part it is advisable to play along with the video and then the other video part to give you vital practice in "playing" with another guitarist. The duets are also graded but be warned the latter bass parts have quite a few technical challenges for the beginner guitar player. Some other points you need to concentrate on are to practice your pieces in slow motion so that the brain (or the sub-conscious) gets time to understand what it is you are trying to communicate to it. The sub-conscious doesn't care what you are teaching it, it will just attempt to do it. The "trick" is to teach it right from the beginning. It has been said that the famous classical guitarist Julian Bream practices his whole repertoire for a particular concert in slow motion before he performs (it even at his level!). I can attest to the veracity of the statement - it's a good idea! Playing slowly also helps to develop your confidence and really, speed should be the last thing on your mind when learning the guitar. Accuracy and quality of tone are of prime importance before anything else. You'll also notice in some of the videos that I rest my thumb of the right hand on the lower "E" string as I'm using my "i.m." fingers. This provides more stability for the beginner when learning to use alternating rest stroke and is a good idea for an absolute beginner. As you get more experienced and start to play harder music you'll need to be more "fluid" with both of your hands. Also, you will have also noticed after watching the videos that I count the beats before playing. This helps you with counting and timing in terms of beat (pulse) and rhythm (note lengths). In fact, it is a good idea when you are a beginner to play the notes, tap your foot to the beat, say and even sing the notes of your piece, if it's an easy piece of course.
When you're able to do all these things simultaneously but slowly and successfully you'll be able to play the piece by itself a whole lot better. It stands to reason that if you can play whilst multi-tasking, when it comes to just playing a melody it will be much easier. Another benefit of employing this method is that you are analysing the music on a much deeper level than just playing the "black notes" and this leads to a much deeper and quicker understanding of the music. It's certainly not easy at the beginning but this is exactly why you practice - to get better! Notice we are also discussing the QUALITY of your practice here. You'll notice a far more rapid advance in your improvement if you learn to engage on a deeper level with your study material. I suppose it's what is known universally as "being there". Good luck with the beginner page! *** Remember you can right click and "save as" or click to view the PDF's. If you can't view the PDF you might need to update your PDF reader from Adobe
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Beginner Guitar Lesson #1 - Hush Little Baby
Beginner Guitar Lesson #2 - Ode to Joy
Beginner Guitar Lesson #3 - Yankee Doodle
Beginner Guitar Lesson #4 - Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
Beginner Guitar Lesson #5 - The Surprise Theme by Joseph Haydn
Beginner Guitar Lesson #6 - What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?
Beginner Guitar Lesson #7 - When the Saints Go Marching In
Beginner Guitar Lesson #8 - The Ash Grove
Beginner Guitar Lesson #9 - Minuet in G Minor
Beginner Guitar Lesson #10 - Menuet in G Minor by Bach
Beginner Guitar Lesson Duet #1 - Scarborough Fair
Beginner Guitar Lesson Duet #2 - Allegretto by Aguado
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