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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 | |