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| Preface | |
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| About the Guitar | |
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| History of the Guitar | |
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| Buying a Guitar | |
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| Construction of the Guitar | |
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| Care of the Guitar | |
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| Care of the Fingernails | |
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| Conventional Terminology | |
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| Beginning to Play | |
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| Stringing the Guitar | |
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| Tuning | |
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| Position | |
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| The Right Hand | |
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| The Left Hand | |
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| Both Hands Together | |
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| Some Common Faults and Their Solution | |
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| Building Accompaniments from Chords | |
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| Playing a Simple Chord | |
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| Changing from One Chord to Another | |
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| Playing in Meter and Rhythm | |
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| Playing an Accompaniment | |
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| Damping | |
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| Use of the Capotasto | |
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| Developing Your Technique | |
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| The Arpeggio | |
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| Chord Development | |
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| Related Chords | |
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| Minor Chords | |
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| Importance of Chord Families | |
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| Complete RH Chord Fingering | |
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| More Advanced Left-Hand Technique | |
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| The Full Bar | |
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| The Ligado | |
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| What You Have Learned and How to Perfect It | |
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| Techniques | |
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| Chords | |
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| Reading Music for the Guitar | |
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| The Treble Clef | |
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| Octaves | |
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| The Open Strings | |
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| Time | |
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| Counting Time | |
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| Fretted Notes | |
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| Music in Two Parts | |
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| Additional Symbols | |
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| Sharps and Flats | |
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| The Scale | |
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| Completion of the First Two Positions | |
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| Reading More Difficult Music | |
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| More Complex Rhythms | |
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| Tempo | |
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| Conventional Signs | |
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| Sight-reading | |
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| Mastering What You Have Learned | |
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| In Classical Style | |
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| Popular Air | |
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| Carnavalitos Peruvian Folk Dance | |
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| Moorish Dance Spanish Traditional | |
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| Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring | |
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| Lilliburlero Irish Folk Song | |
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| Sevillanas Spanish dance | |
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| Learning the Fingerboard | |
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| Learning Notes Across the Frets | |
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| Equivalent Notes | |
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| Changing Position | |
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| Mastering What You Have Learned | |
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| Arpeggio Study | |
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| Minuet | |
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| Espanoleta | |
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| Air | |
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| Muss I Denn German Folk Song | |
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| Mananitas Mexican Folk Song | |
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| Romance | |
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| Ballet | |
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| Prelude | |
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| Prelude | |
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| Allegretto | |
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| Linden Lea | |
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| Colorful Accompaniments | |
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| Special Effects | |
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| National and Regional Characteristics | |
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| Blues Traditional | |
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| The Sloop John B. Traditional | |
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| La Petenera Spanish Traditional | |
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| La Bamba Mexican Folk Song | |
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| Awake Sweet Love | |
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| Finger-Picking | |
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| Silver Sand Rag | |
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| Classical Solo Playing | |
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| How to Practice | |
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| Greensleeves English Traditional | |
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| Playing Flamenco Music | |
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| How to Approach Flamenco | |
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| Flamenco Position | |
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| Types of Flamenco with Their Rasgueado Patterns | |
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| Mastering What You Have Learned | |
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| Soleares Spanish Traditional | |
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| Alegrias por Rosas Spanish Traditional | |
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| Fandango de Huelva Spanish Traditional | |
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| Siguiriyas Spanish Traditional | |
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| Going on From Here | |
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| Songs for Chord Practice | |
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| Index of Songs | |
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| On Top of Old Smokey | |
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| When the Saints Go Marching In | |
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| Erie Canal | |
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| Greensleeves | |
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| Blue-Tail Fly | |
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| Lord Randall | |
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| Streets of Laredo | |
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| Poor Boy | |
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| I Know Where I'm Going | |
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| Coplas | |
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| Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies | |
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| Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes | |
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| Careless Love | |
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| Banks of the Ohio | |
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| Venezuela | |
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| Blow the Candles Out | |
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| Henry Martin | |
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| House of the Rising Sun | |
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| Formation of Complex Chords | |
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| Diminished Chords | |
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| Transferring the Chords to the Guitar | |
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| Which Notes to Double | |
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| Additional Study Material | |