A Modern Method For Guitar, Vol. 1 + DVD-ROM

"A Modern Method for Guitar", by William Leavitt, is one of the world's most popular guitar methods. It is the basic text for Berklee College of Music's guitar program. It has stood the test of time and earned a vast and loyal following of dedicated guitar students and instructors for over 40 years.

The DVD-ROM version of "A Modern Method for Guitar, Volume 1" is the most comprehensive guitar method DVD-ROM on the market. You will be guided through 14 complete lessons with Larry Baione, chair of Berklee0s guitar department.

Fourteen hours of instruction include on-screen demonstration, with camera close-ups of both hands, as well as interactive duets and play-along segments so you can "sit in" with your instructor.

You will learn essential skills for playing lead and rhythm guitar, including scales, chord forms, accompaniment skills, guitar technique, voice-leading approaches, reading music notation.

CONTENIDO:

Arpeggio studies
-Key of C major
-Key of F major
-Key of G major
-Key of D major
-Key of A major

(6) Chord etudes

Chord forms (rhythm accompaniment)
-Introduction to
-Bass notes and chords
-Chord diagram (open position)
-Principle of movable forms
-Movable forms
-Movable forms, 2
-Right-hand technique for rhythmic acceleration
-Basic latin bit

Fundamentals
-Primary information
-Sharps and flats
-Eighth notes
-Rests, tied notes, dotted notes
-Sixteenth notes
-The triplet
-Dotted eighth and sixteenth notes
-Quarter-notes triplets
-Harmonics
-Muffled effect
-Staccato, legato

Reading studies
-Optional duets with rhythm guitar
-Melodic rhythm study 1 (sincopation)
-Second position review
-Third position review
-First position review
-Fourth position review

Right-hand development
-Picking etudes 1,2,3,4,5
-Reverse alternate picking study
-Dynamic etude (duet)
-Picking, a different technique
-Triplet study
-Dotted eighth and sixteenth study
-Basic latin beat
-Melodic rhythm study 1
-Sixteenth note study

Scales: open (first) position
-C major
-G major
-F major
-Bb major
-D major
-A major
-Eb major
-A minor (three types)
-E minor (three types)
-D minor (three types)
-Chromatic scale

Scales: movable fingerings (position playing)
-C major, fingering type 1 (position II)
-F major, fingering type 1A (position II)
-G major, fingering type 2 (position II)
-D major, fingering type 3 (position II)
-A major, fingering type 4 (position II)
-Bb major, fingering type 4
-Eb major, fingering type 4 (position II)
-Ab major, fingering type 2
-Db major, fingering type 1 (position III)
-Ab major, fingering type 4
-Db major, fingering type 3 (position I, no open strings)
-G major, fingering type 1A
-D major, fingering type 1 (position I)
-A major, fingering type 2
-E major, fingering type 3 (position IV)

Solos
-"First solo"
-"Second solo"
-Picking etudes 1,3,4,5
-Duet in F (1st guitar part)
-Waltz in F
-Pretty pickin' (1st guitar part)
-Take your pick (1st guitar part)
-Chord etudes 1,2,3,4,5
-"Ballad" (1st guitar part)

Speed studies