Complete Guide To Fingerstyle Guitar (CD Included) (Rittor Music Mook)

Master Okazaki Tomonori thoroughly explains everything about acoustic guitar, complete with YouTube and CD!

This book is a comprehensive guide to fingerstyle guitar and solo guitar from Tomonori Okazaki, a leading figure in the Japanese music industry. In just under 300 pages, he covers everything from how to choose a guitar, the secrets of chords, basic and extended playing techniques, the author's recommended basic exercises, rhythm training, music theory, and arranging techniques. The accompanying CD also includes practice-style exercises. You can also learn techniques and exercises that are difficult to understand from text or photos with YouTube videos. Utilize the know-how gleaned from Okazaki's long career to enhance your acoustic guitar playing. This book also serves as a companion to Okazaki Tomonori's "Fingerstyle Solo Guitar Masterpieces" series of scores with CDs. Be sure to get your hands on his first instructional book.

[CONTENTS] Chapter 1: Guitar Basics 1. Before Buying a Guitar 2. Guitar Accessories 3. String Types and Replacement 4. Tuning 5. Music Theory for Guitarists 6. Guitar Notation and Symbols 7. Right-Hand and Left-Hand Fingering Symbols

Chapter 2: Understanding Chords (Basics) 8. Chords: Part 1 9. Chords: Part 2 10. The Secrets of Chords 11. Changing Chord Fingerings

Chapter 3: Basic Fingerstyle Guitar Techniques 12. Basic Fingerstyle Techniques Arpeggios Quick Arpeggios Three-Finger Alternate Bass Finger Strokes Cutting Mute Strokes Brushing Mixed Bass Runs and Strokes Apoyando and Al Aire Rasgueado Other Techniques Pizzicato / Tambora / Tapping / Tapping Harmonics / Finger Attack and Nail Attack / Tabaret / Body Hit and Palm / Right Hand / Slide (Bottle Neck)

Chapter 4: Scales and Their Applications 13. Scale Lessons C Major Scale D Major Scale E Major Scale F Major Scale G Major Scale A Major Scale B♭ Major Scale

14. Hanon for Guitarists Beginner Level Hanon Variations

15. Hanon [Advanced 1] 16. Hanon [Advanced 2] 17. Nashville-Style Chromatic Guitar …162

Chapter 5: Developing Rhythm 18. Rhythm Training Simple Strokes Syncopation 3/4 Time Signatures and Shuffles Slightly More Complex Strokes Accents Cutting Variations Strokes with Bass Runs 1-Beat Triplets, Shuffles, and 2-Beat Triplets

Chapter 6: Understanding Chords (Advanced) 19. High Chord Structure and Capo What are High Chords? Finding High Chords Constituent Notes of High Chords Open High Chords

20. On-Chords (Fractional Chords) What are On-Chords (Fractional Chords)? An on-chord in which all the constituent notes of a chord other than the tonic note are the bass note. An on-chord in which all the constituent notes of a chord other than the tonic note are the bass note.

21. Frequently Appearing Difficult Chords Ad-Ninth Chord Ninth Chord Seventh-Sharp-Five Chord Seventh-Flat-Five Chord Minor Seventh-Flat-Five Chord Seventh-Flat-Ninth Chord Eleventh Chord Dim and Aug

Chapter 7: Arranging for Guitar Instruments 22. Arranging Tips When an Original Take Exists When an Original Take Doesn't Exist Chording Examples

23. Tracing Arrangement Variations 1 "Soap Bubbles" - Seven Transformations 24. Tracing Arrangement Variations 2 "Aura Lee" 25. Tracing Arrangement Variations 3 "Funiculi Funicula" 26. Tracing Arrangement Variations 4 "Bourrée"

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