Guitar for the Absolute Beginner, Book Two

Contents:

• About the Author
• Review: Reading Standard Music Notation and TAB
• Standard Music Notation: Pitch
• Standard Music Notation: Note and Rest Values
• Time Signatures
• Tablature (TAB)
• Repeats
• Pickup Notes and Incomplete Measures
• Review: Technique
• Left Hand
• Right Hand
• Review: Chords
• Review Worksheet
• Two New Chords: F and Bmin
• Changes
• Three New Bluesy Chords: A7, B7 and E7
• True Blue
• Review: The Notes on 1st, 2nd and 3rd Strings
• Double Stops and Some New Signs
• Beethoven's 9th
• Review: The Notes on 4th, 5th and 6th Strings
• Review: Accidentals
• Bach's Minuet in G
• Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
• Amazing Grace
• Fingerstyle
• Sunday Picnic
• A New Pattern: #3
• Scarborough Fair-Melody
• Scarborough Fair-Fingerpick
• The Natural Minor Scale
• The A Natural Minor Scale
• Nine Lives
• Moveable Chords
• Barre Chords
• The E Form Barres
• Root 6 Names for E Form Barres
• The A Form Barres
• Root 5 Names for A Form Barres
• Lessons Learned
• Improvising: The Moveable Minor Pentatonic Scale
• The Moveable A Minor Pentatonic Scale
• Dotted Quarter Notes
• Twelve-Bar Blues Jam
• Soloing with the Major Scale
• Hammer-ons
• Pull-offs
• Slides
• Triplets
• Swinging the Eighths, or Shuffle Feel
• Shuffle Solo
• Understanding the Twelve-Bar Blues
• The Twelve-Bar Blues in C
• Blues Rhythm Pattern Review
• Rhythm Pattern Blues
• Power Chords
• Traffic Jam
• Power Trip
• Commonly Used Chords
• Strums and Picking Patterns
• Strums in 4/4 Time on an E Chord
• Strums in 3/4 Time on an E Chord
• 4/4 Picking Patterns on an E Chord
• 3/4 Picking Patterns on an E Chord
• Songs Using A, D, and E Chords
• Songs Using the Blues Rhythm Pattern
• Songs Using Power Chords
• Review Worksheet Answers