Guitar Chords and Accompaniment: Learn Guitar Chords and Various Accompaniment Styles Step by Step - Softcover

Yoichi Arakawa

9781891370007: Guitar Chords and Accompaniment: Learn Guitar Chords and Various Accompaniment Styles Step by Step

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891370006 ISBN 13: 9781891370007

Publisher: Six Strings Music Pub, 1998

With a progressive learning approach, "Guitar Chords and Accompaniment" shows you how to develop an increasingly sophisticated playing style. Starting with such basics as how to hold your guitar, proper finger positioning, guitar tuning and basic music notation, the book then guides you through open chords, moving on to the more challenging barre chords and slash chords with large, easy-to-follow chord diagrams step by step. While learning chords, you will become skilled at playing from basic to advanced accompaniment patterns that you can readily apply to your favorite styles of music: rock, folk, blues, pop, country and jazz.

It is carefully organized and designed to help beginners overcome many common problems. Students with years of training can also benefit from the variety of styles. Newly introduced in this completely revised edition are hammer-on and pull-off techniques along with the new accompaniment patterns and music exercises.

This book will show you:

-Basic components of music notation and theory.
-How to connect from one chord to another easily and smoothly.
-How to lay a variety of strumming and fingerstyle patterns accurately.
-How to provide accompaniment in various musical styles including rock, folk, country, blues, classical and jazz.

Whether you have just started playing the guitar or are trying to expand your chord vocabulary and improve your accompaniment skills, this book is for you!

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Review:

"Very insightful, well written, and extremely helpful. It stands out as a book with a lot more to offer. I will give Guitar Chords and Accompaniment an A+."-- Alex Steininger, In Music We Trust

"Guitar Chords and Accompaniment is essential for any beginning guitar player regardless of the musical style being aspired to."--Midwest Book Review

"Very knowledgeable instruction from an author with real teaching, playing, and writing experience. Highly recommended for the beginning acoustic guitarist of any style."--GuitarBooks.com

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