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| Getting Your Gear | |
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| The Guitar-Past and Present | |
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| The Three Types of Guitars | |
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| Getting Your Guitar | |
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| Classical Guitars | |
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| Acoustic Guitars | |
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| Electric Guitars | |
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| Changing Strings on Classical and Acoustic Guitars | |
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| Changing Strings on Electric Guitars | |
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| General Maintenance and Care | |
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| Warming Up to Play | |
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| The What and Where of Notes | |
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| Getting in Tune | |
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| Holding the Guitar | |
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| The Right Hand | |
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| The Left Hand | |
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| Reading Guitar Tablature | |
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| Reading Rhythm Notation | |
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| Getting Good with Rhythm | |
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| Your First Easy Chords | |
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| More Easy Chords | |
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| Making Chord Changes in Rhythm | |
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| Root Notes and the "Bass/Strum" | |
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| Practice: Root Notes and Bass/Strum | |
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| Alternating Bass | |
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| Practice: Alternating Bass with Chord Changes | |
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| Practice: Alternating Bass Line | |
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| Strumming Eighth Notes | |
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| Practice: Eighth Note Strumming | |
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| Practice: Alternating Bass with Eighth Note Strum | |
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| Simple Syncopation | |
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| Introducing Suspended Chords | |
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| Practice: Syncopation and Suspended Chords | |
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| Practice: Syncopated Strumming | |
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| Taking a Rest | |
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| Combining Alternating Bass, Syncopation, and Rests | |
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| Practice: Rests, Alternating Bass, and Syncopation | |
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| Strumming Sixteenth Notes | |
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| Practice: A Little Island Music | |
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| Triplets and Swing Rhythms | |
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| Double Stops and Shuffles | |
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| Practice: Shuffle Style | |
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| C and G Chords | |
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| Practice: C and G Chord Changes | |
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| Walking Bass Lines | |
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| Practice: Walking Bass Lines | |
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| 3/4 Timing | |
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| Slash Chords | |
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| Practice: Slash Chords | |
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| Practice: 3/4 Time and Slash Chords | |
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| Growing Beyond the Beginner Stage | |
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| Half-Barre Chords | |
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| Practice: Half-Barre Chords | |
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| Practice: Song with F Chord | |
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| Percussive Strumming and String Muting | |
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| Left-Hand String Muting | |
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| Practice: Palm Muting | |
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| Practice: Percussive Strumming Techniques | |
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| Playing Arpeggios | |
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| Practice: Arpeggios with Chords Aadd9 and E7 | |
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| Practice: Songs with Arpeggios | |
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| Basic Fingerpicking | |
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| Practice: Two Easy Classical Studies | |
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| Introduction to Travis-Style Fingerpicking | |
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| Practice: Basic Travis-Style Fingerpicking | |
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| Practice: Basic Travis-Style Fingerpicking with Pinching | |
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| Hammer-ons and Pull-offs | |
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| Strumming and Picking Hammer-ons and Pull-offs | |
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| Practice: Hammer-ons and Pull-offs | |
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| Slides and Bends | |
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| Practice: Slides and Bends | |
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| Practice: All Four Slurs | |
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| Adding Theory to Your Playing | |
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| The Major Scale | |
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| Intervals | |
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| How Chords Are Formed | |
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| Power Chords and Suspended Chords | |
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| Practice: Various 5 Chords and Suspended Chords | |
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| Seventh Chords | |
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| Practice: Various Seventh Chords | |
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| Really Fancy Chords | |
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| Practice: Various Fancy Chords | |
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| Full Barre Chords | |
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| Practice: Full Barre Chords | |
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| Creating Different Chord Voicings | |
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| Practice: Various Chord Voicings | |
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| Keys, Key Signatures, and the Circle of Fifths | |
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| Diatonic Chords and Transposing | |
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| Using a Capo | |
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| Practice: Song for Two Guitars | |
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| Playing with a Slide | |
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| Alternate Tuning | |
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| Practice: Double Drop D Tuning | |
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| Practice: Celtic Song in DADGAD Tuning | |
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| Practice: Song in Unusual Alternate Tuning | |
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| Open Tuning | |
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| Practice: Open G Tuning | |
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| Practice: Rock Song in Open G Tuning | |
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| Practice: Hawaiian Slack-key Style in Open G Tuning | |
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| Practice: Open D Tuning | |
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| Practice: Fingerstyle in Open D Tuning | |
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| Practice: Blues Song in Open D Tuning with Slide | |
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| Crosspicking | |
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| Practice: Focusing on Crosspicking | |
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| Creating Fills | |
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| Practice: Fills Within a Song | |
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| Chord Melody | |
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| Practice: Simple Chord Melody | |
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| Getting Fancy with Chord Melody | |
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| Practice: Fancy Chord Melody | |
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| Playing in a Group | |
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| Practice: Playing in a Group-Second Guitar | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Chord Charts | |
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| For Further Study | |
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| Index | |