Flamenco/Classical Guitar Method. Juan Serrano & Corey Whitehead

Description

Book + Online download "Flamenco/Classical Guitar Method" - Juan Serrano & Corey Whitehead
This beginning guitar method is written for aspiring classical or flamenco guitarists who want to learn how to read music up to the intermediate level. Music from the Spanish tradition such as Romanza, Pica-Pica, El Vito, Café de las Chinitas, Perfidía, La Virgen de la Macarena and flamenco music of Juan Serrano provides a technical and musical foundation that improves facility in playing scales, arpeggios, tremelo, and rasgueado.

Tablature is not included as the one of the primary aims of this book is to improve note reading and the comprehension of the fundamental elements of music. Performances of all musical examples are available online that includes one performance at tempo for each of the more than 230 musical examples. Short repertoire pieces from Gaspar Sanz, Dionisio Aguado, Fernando Sor, Mauro Guiliani, Ferdinand Carulli, and Mateo Carcassi are included at the end of the book and are repertoire studies that will prepare guitarists for further study in classical and/or flamenco guitar.

Format: A4
English

Index

The Guita-A Brief History
La Guitarra (poem.)..
Preface
Parts of the Classid Guitar
Parts of the Flamenco Guitar
Names of the Open Strings
Tuning.
Metronome
Note Locations on the Fretboard
Sitting Positionand Holding the Guitar 18
The Fingers of the Right and Left Hand
Fingernail Shape and Maintenance
Picados (Scaies) -Apoyando (Rest Stroke) and Eranab (Free Stroke)
Arpegios (Broken Chords)
Tremolo( Preparatory Exercise)
Rasgueado (Strumming)
Basic Elements of Music Notation
Musical Expression Symbols
The Musical Alphabet
Half Steps and Whole Steps
The Major Scale
The Open Treble Strings.
Systematic Arpeggio Exercises
Alternating Index and Middle Fingers
Sueño
The Open Bass Strings.
Playing on the Bass and Treble Strings
Notes on the First String.
Soleares
Notes on the Second String.
Music in Two Parts
Playing Eighth Notes
Notes on the Third String
Sevillanas
Sevillanas I (Trio).
Sharps and Flats on the 1". 2"d and 3" strings
The Fifht Position on the First String
The Natural Sign
Romanza in A Minor
Romanza
Farrucas
Sixteenth Notes
Slurs
Estudio N0.2
The Major Sale
The Natural (Relative) Minor Sale
The A Harmonic Minor Scale.
The A Melodic Minor Scale.
The Chromatic Scale
Notes on the Fourth String
Chords.
Fandango
Fandango Duo
Notes on the Fifth
Historia de un Amor
The Dotted Quarter Note.
Perfidia
Notes on the Sixth String
Farrucas (Bass Line)
Farrucas
El Zorongo (Bass Line)
El Zorongo (Melody)
Playing the F Major Chord
PlayingTwo Notes Togerher (Double-Stops)
El Vito
Rasgueado
Sevillanas Intro
The Natural Notes
Sharps and Flats on the Bass Strings.
The Chromatic Sale
El Rancho Grande
Alternating Bass and Chord Progression
El Rancho Grande (Duet)
Ascending and Descending Slurs: Ligados
Left Hand Agility Exercise
Chords in C Major and A minor
Las Mañanitas
Greensleaves
Scales and Chord Progressions
Rumba Rhythm
Scales and Chord Progressions cont.
The House of the Rising Sun
Variations on a Theme from Asturias
Malagueña
Intervals
Chords.
Triads
C Major Arpeggio and Chrod inversion
The A Minor Arpeggio and Chord
The G Major Arpeggio and Chord
The F Major Triad
Barré Chords
Chord Progressions
Petenera
Café de Chinitas
La Virgen de la Macarena.
The High D and E on the First String
Pica-Pica Melody (Guitar I)
Pica-Pica Accompaniment (Guitar II).
Pica-Pica Accompaniment (Guitar III)
Pica-Pica Accompaniment (Guitar IV)
Pica-Pica (quartet)
Key
Chord Substitution.
Key Signatures
The Circle of Fifths
Major and Minor Scales in the First Position
More Chords in the Circle of Fifths
Allegro by Ferdinand Carulli.
Allegretto by Carulli
Andante by Cardli
Allegro in E minor by Carulli
Etude in G Major by Carulli
Adantino by Carulli.
Larghetto by Cardli
Romanza
Menuet by Robert de Visée
Lección 38 by Dionisio Aguado
Clarines de los mosqueteros del rey de Francia by Sanz
Allegro by Mauro Guiliani
Andante by Ferdinand Carulli
Conclusion