Guitar Exercises for Dummies - Brossura

Phillips, Mark; Chappell, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0470387661 ISBN 13: 9780470387665

Casa editrice: For Dummies, 2008

Riassunto

Guitar Exercises For Dummies includes over 300 exercises along with lots of technique-building practice opportunities. It starts off with warm-up exercises (on and off-instrument) and then logically transitions to scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords, with a focus on building strength and consistency as well as refining technique.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Mark Phillips is a guitarist, arranger, author, and editor with more than 30 years in music publishing. Jon Chappell is a multi-style guitarist, arranger, author, and journalist, and former editor of Guitar magazine. Phillips and Chappell are bestselling authors of Guitar For Dummies, 2nd Edition.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Train your fingers to become a lean, mean guitar-playing machine!

Want to sharpen your guitar-playing skills? This practice-oriented playbook is packed with hands-on technique builders, from warm-up exercises and scales to arpeggios, chords, and much more. You'll see how to apply your technique with performance pieces at the end of each chapter.

• Review basic guitar fundamentals ? posture, holding the guitar, sitting and standing with the guitar

• Brush up on guitar notation ? decoding tablature, comprehending chord diagrams, interpreting neck diagrams, recognizing rhythm slashes

• Warm up away from the guitar ? release tension, improve breathing, prepare your mind and body to play

• Wake up those fingers ? limber up your fingers by playing simple exercises

• Develop strength, speed, and independence ? play single-note patterns and chord progressions

Open the book and find:

• More than 300 exercises in various keys, positions, and rhythms

• Drills & tips to perfect your playing and maximize your practice time

• Technique building opportunities

• Scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords

• Full-length pieces to play along with

• Ways to improve your musicianship

Bonus CD Includes

• Selected exercises from each chapter

• Every performance piece

• Open string tuning notes

• Metronome tracks of different tempos

Su questa edizione

• Editore: For Dummies
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470387661
• ISBN 13: 9780470387665
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 218