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| Introduction | |
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| The Guitar | |
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| Types of Guitars | |
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| Posture and Position for Holding the Guitar | |
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| Hand and Guitar Symbols | |
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| Playing Techniques for Single Strings | |
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| "High" and "Low" in Musical Sound | |
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| Parts of the Guitar | |
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| The Guitar Fretboard | |
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| Music Theory and the Fretboard: Whole- and Half-steps | |
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| Alphabet Letters Used in Music Theory | |
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| Letters on the Entire Fretboard to Fret Twelve | |
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| Building a Scale of Natural Notes in First Position | |
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| Reading Music on the Guitar | |
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| The Music Staff | |
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| Relating the Music Staff to Letters on the Fretboard | |
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| Basic Rhythm Reading | |
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| First Position Reading Charts and Exercises | |
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| First Position Natural Scale chart | |
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| Guitar Tablature and Notation | |
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| Pitch Levels of Letters and the Music Staff | |
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| Converting Music Notation to Guitar Tablature | |
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| Converting Guitar Tablature to Music Notation | |
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| Mixed Tablature and Notation: Exercise | |
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| Chord Basics | |
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| Chord Diagrams for Guitar | |
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| Guidelines for Playing the Correct Chord Strings | |
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| Beginning Chord Fingering Exercises | |
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| Song Accompaniment and Charts | |
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| Songs with One Chord | |
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| Song Accompaniment | |
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| Music Charts: The Three Basic Elements | |
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| Chart Exercises | |
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| Songs: Charts with Words | |
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| Charts with Words | |
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| Memorizing Chords Alphabetically | |
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| Counting by Note Values | |
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| Counting Values of Notes | |
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| Counting Individual Note Values | |
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| Counting Beats per Measure | |
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| Converting Songs to Charts | |
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| Published Song Formats and Conversion to Charts | |
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| Variety of Playing Techniques | |
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| Alternating Bass for Chords | |
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| Definition of "Alternating Bass" | |
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| Perfect Fifths as Alternating Basses | |
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| - But Not All Chords Have Perfect Fifths! | |
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| Alternating Bass Applied to Various Chords | |
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| Freestroke with Chords | |
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| Freestroke Technique | |
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| Freestroke Patterns | |
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| Beginning Steps for Playing a Freestroke Pattern | |
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| Freestroke Pattern Chart | |
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| The Chords Most Likely to Succeed | |
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| Practice Chart for Primary Key Chords | |
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| "The Chords Most Likely to Succeed" | |
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| Guitar Techniques for Harmonizing "by ear" | |
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| Songs to Harmonize: Two Chords | |
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| Songs to Harmonize: Three Chords | |
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| Tuning the Guitar | |
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| Matching Unison Pitches at the Fifth Fret | |
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| Use of the "A-440" Tuning Fork | |
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| Tuning with Harmonics | |
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| Tuning Tips | |
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| Care and Maintenance of the Guitar | |
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| Answers | |
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| Chords | |
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| Blank Practice Tablatures and Music Staff | |
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| Blank Chord Diagrams | |
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| Blank Tablatures: 12 Frets | |
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| Music Staff with Tab | |
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| Song Index | |