An easy, carefully graduated note-reading method which provides an introduction to the rudiments of music through enjoyable single-note exercises and solos. As this book includes diagrams and photos of the location of the notes in first position, it serves as a good precursor to Modern Guitar Method, Grade 1. An easy, carefully graduated note-reading method which provides an introduction to the rudiments of music through enjoyable single-note exercises and solos. As this book includes diagrams and photos of the location of the notes in first position, it serves as a good precursor to Modern Guitar Method, Grade 1. Written for the plectrum style player in standard notation only.

CONTENTS

The Rudiments of Music
The Staff
The Clef
Notes
Rests
Notes and Comparative Rests
Time Signatures
The Rule of the Dot
Note Review
The Fingerboard
The Correct Way to Hold the Guitar
This Is the Pick
Striking the Strings
The Left Hand Position
Ledger Lines
Tuning the Guitar
Another Method of Tuning
Pitch Pipes
The Notes on the First String (E)
The Full Back
The Half Back
The Quarter Back
The First Waltz
The Notes on the Second String (B)
Whole Notes
Half-Notes
Quarter-Notes
Topsy Turvy
The Merry Men
Mexican Waltz
Oh, Suzannah
Study on the First and Second Strings
The Notes on the Third String (G)
A Study on the Third String
Sparkling Stella
Gee-Bee
Yankee Doodle
Long, Long Ago
Boat Song
London Bridge
Goodnight Ladies
The Tie
This Train
Pick-Up Notes
Red River Valley
We Won't Go Home Until Morning
The Notes on the Fourth String (D)
Whole-Notes
Half-Notes
Quarter-Notes
Lightly Row
The Bucking Bronco
Old McDonald's Farm
The Repeater
When the Saints Go Marching in Boogie
Twelve Bar Boogie
Blow the Man Down
School House Rock
Low "B" and "C" Waltz
Tied Note Study in Three-Quarter Time
Study on the "A" or 5th String
My Old Kentucky Home
Review of the Notes on the Fifth String (A)
Introducing the Sharp
There is a Tavern in the Town
Good King Wenceslas
Faith of our Fathers
Introducing Two New Sharps
The Picnic
Introducing the Flat
The Natural
A Pair of Naturals
Twelve Bar Boogie
This Old Man Boogie
The Eighth Note
The Scale in Eighth Notes
Little Brown Jug
Study on Eighth Notes, Sharps and Flats
Wildwood Flower
Eighth Note Counting Review
Square Dance Theme
I've Been Working on the Railroad
Slow and Easy Blues