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| Introduction | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preparing to Play | |
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| The Guitar: A Noteworthy History | |
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| The Ancient Roots of the Guitar | |
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| Early Guitar Masters | |
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| The Guitar in America | |
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| The Folk Revival | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| What Is a Guitar? | |
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| The Parts of the Guitar | |
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| Guitar Styles | |
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| More Guitar Talk | |
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| Selecting a Guitar | |
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| Guitar Variants | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Buying a Guitar | |
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| Before Shopping | |
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| How Much to Spend | |
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| Acoustic vs. Electric | |
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| New vs. Used | |
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| Shopping Tips | |
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| Sound Advice | |
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| Fitting an Instrument to You | |
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| Common Guitar Brands | |
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| Japanese/Asian Makers | |
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| American Makers | |
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| Spanish Makers | |
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| What Will a Dealer Do for You? | |
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| Mail Order | |
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| Accessories | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Strings and Things | |
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| About the Fingers | |
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| The Playing Action | |
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| Strings | |
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| Changing Strings | |
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| Choosing Strings | |
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| Raising the Dead | |
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| String Brands | |
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| Tuning | |
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| Tuning to the Piano | |
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| Relative Tuning | |
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| Electronic Tuning | |
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| String Stretch | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Beginning to Play | |
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| Playing Position | |
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| Sitting Correctly | |
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| The Left Hand | |
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| Chords | |
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| Changing Chords | |
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| Why These Chords? | |
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| Minor Chords | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| The Right Hand | |
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| Right-Hand Playing Position | |
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| Preparing the Nails | |
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| Right-Hand Chord Technique | |
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| Rhythmic Variety | |
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| Further Practice | |
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| Quick Review | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Advanced Right Hand Techniques | |
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| The Rest Stroke | |
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| Alternation | |
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| Practical Work | |
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| The Free Stroke | |
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| Arpeggios | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Tunes and Tablature | |
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| How Guitar Music Is Written | |
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| Guitar Tablature | |
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| Rhythm and Counting | |
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| Time Signatures | |
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| How to Count Time | |
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| Ties, Rests, and Damping | |
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| Some Familiar Tunes | |
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| "Au Clair de la Lune" | |
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| "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" | |
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| The Eighth Note | |
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| Nursery Rhyme | |
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| Counting Beats with Fractions | |
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| "The Ash Grove" | |
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| More about Dotted Notes | |
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| "Greensleeves" | |
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| "Muss I Denn" | |
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| Irish Air: "Endearing Young Charms" | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Varied Accompaniments | |
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| Playing Chords and Arpeggios in Tablature | |
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| "Down in the Valley" (Folk Song from Kentucky) | |
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| "The Riddle Song" | |
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| "The Streets of Laredo" (Traditional Cowboy Song) | |
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| "Aura Lee" (George Poulton, Lyrics by W. W. Fosdick) | |
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| Some New Chords | |
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| The Half Bar | |
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| "Waltzing Matilda" (A. B. "Banjo" Patterson) | |
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| A First Solo | |
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| "Andantino" (Ferdinando Carulli) | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Rhythm Practice | |
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| Advanced Counting | |
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| Sixteenth Notes | |
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| Smaller Note Values Do Not Always Equal Greater Speed | |
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| Mixed Rhythms | |
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| "William Tell" | |
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| "Leaves So Green" | |
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| "Humoresque" | |
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| Triplets | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Slur Techniques | |
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| The Upward Slur (Hammer-On, Ascending Ligado) | |
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| Upward Slur Exercise | |
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| The Downward Slur (Pull-Off, Descending Ligado) | |
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| Slurs on Inside Strings | |
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| Downward Slur Exercise | |
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| Practice for Upward and Downward Slurs | |
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| Rhythm of Soleares | |
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| Exercise for Left-Hand Solo | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| The Full Bar | |
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| Playing a Full Bar | |
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| Chord Sequences | |
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| 12-bar Blues | |
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| "Dream a Little Dream of Me" | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Making Notes | |
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| How to Read Notes | |
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| Why Learn Notation? | |
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| The Music Staff | |
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| Notes Above and Below the Staff | |
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| Tones and Half Tones | |
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| The Octave | |
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| The Notes on the Staff | |
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| The Notes on Each String | |
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| Notes on the First String | |
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| Notes on the Second String | |
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| Notes on the Third String | |
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| Notes on the Fourth String | |
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| Notes on the Fifth String | |
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| Notes on the Sixth String | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| The Scale | |
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| Sharps and Flats | |
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| Accidentals | |
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| Tunes from Notation | |
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| "Plaisir d'Amour" | |
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| "Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)" | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Music in Multiple Voices | |
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| Independent Voices | |
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| "Andante" (Fernando Sor) | |
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| Study Notes | |
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| "Bouree" (J. S. Bach) | |
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| Study Notes | |
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| "Country Dance" (Frederick Noad) | |
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| Study Notes | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Regional Styles | |
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| Elements of Travis Picking | |
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| Syncopation | |
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| "Careless Love" | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Folk and Country | |
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| Keeping It Steady | |
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| Basic Chord Shapes | |
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| Picking a Country Song | |
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| Playing a Solo: "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Introducing Flamenco | |
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| The Flamenco Forms | |
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| Development of the Solo Art | |
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| Technique | |
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| Right-Hand Techniques | |
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| The Flamenco Downstroke | |
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| Damping | |
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| Flamenco Damping | |
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| The Upstroke | |
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| The Rhythmic Tap (Golpe) | |
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| The Rasgueo | |
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| Downward Rasgueo | |
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| Developing the Fingers | |
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| Four-Finger Rasgueo | |
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| Study Note | |
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| Down and Up Rasgueo | |
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| Rhythm of Soleares | |
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| Study Notes, Soleares | |
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| Farruca | |
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| Study Notes, Farruca | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Latin Rhythms | |
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| Tango | |
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| Rumba | |
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| The Beguine | |
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| The Bossa Nova | |
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| Carnavalitos | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| The Blues | |
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| Taking Measure of the 12-Bar Blues | |
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| Seventh Chords | |
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| Getting Down to the Blues | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Rock and Roll | |
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| The Boogie Bass | |
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| A High-Note Solo | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Taking Off | |
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| Chord Formation | |
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| Chord Families | |
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| Related Chords | |
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| The Relative Minor | |
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| Other Useful Chords | |
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| The Diminished Seventh | |
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| Sixths, Ninths, and Major and Minor Sevenths | |
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| Transposing with the Chord Clock | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Moving up the Fingerboard | |
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| The Positions of the Guitar | |
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| Ways to Change Position | |
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| The Guide Finger | |
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| The Portamento | |
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| The Slide (Arrastre) | |
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| Notes of the Fifth Position | |
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| Equivalent Notes | |
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| Natural Harmonics | |
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| Study in E minor (Francisco Tarrega) | |
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| Study Notes | |
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| Plegaria (Guillermo Gomez) | |
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| Study Notes | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Classical Virtuoso Secrets | |
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| Tone Production | |
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| Vibrato | |
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| Tremolo | |
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| Dividing your Practice Time | |
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| Additional Study | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Putting It All Together | |
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| Study in B Minor (Fernando Sor) | |
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| Study Note, Study in B Minor | |
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| Romance Anonimo (Anonymous Romance) | |
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| Study Notes, Romance Anonimo | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Further Study | |
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| Works by Frederick Noad | |
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| Books | |
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| General Instruction | |
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| Chords and Theory | |
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| Flamenco | |
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| Rock and Blues | |
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| Country, Folk, and Fingerpicking | |
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| Jazz | |
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| Videos | |
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| Basic/Introductory Videos | |
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| Rock | |
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| Classical and Flamenco | |
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| Blues | |
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| Fingerstyle | |
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| Flatpicking | |
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| Guitar Gods | |
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| Guitar Talk | |
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| Index | |