The John Mills Classical Guitar Tutor

A complete guide to classical guitar, from choosing an instrument through to basic harmony. Includes many exercises and pieces.

CONTENIDO:

1. Choosing an instrument
2. How to hold the guitar
3. Position of the right arm and hand
4. Plucking action of the right hand
5. Tuning the guitar
6. The nails, and how to look after them
7. Open string playing
8. First steps in reading music
9. More open string exercise
10. The rest stroke (apoyando)
11. The open bass strings
12. Pieces using all six open strings
13. Left hand position and fingering
14. Practising
15. Notes on the first string
16. Notes on the second string
17. Playing on strings one, two and three
18. Chord playing using stopped treble strings
19. Accidentals and two new notes
20. Scale of C major and key signatures
21. Study in C major (Carulli)
22. Andantino by Carcassi
23. The key of G major
24. Study by Carully
25. The scale of A minor
26. Basic harmony
27. English Renaissance lute music
28. Slurs, ascending and descending
29. Scale of A minor (2nd octave) and a study by Mertz
30. Scale of E minor
31. Waltz in E minor (Carulli)
32. The half barré
33. Allegretto by Giuliani
34. Scale of D major & Lady Laiton's Almain by Dowland
35. Tone colour on the guitar
36. More about scales
37. Scale of F major
38. The full barré
39. Study by Fernando Sor
40. Prelude No. 4 (Molino)
41. Two-octave scale of C major
42. A few more remarks about basic harmony
43. Lesson in A minor by Sor
44. The music of Gaspar Sanz
45. Spanish music in the Sixteenth Century
46. Damping of bass strings
47. Some hints on memorization
48. Two-octave scale of G major (alternative fingering)
49. Catalan folk song
50. Minuet by J. S. Bach

-Musette (Bach)
-Gavotte (Jelinek)
-Tarleton's Resurrection & Mrs Winter's Jump (Dowland)
-Study (Coste)
-Study (Brian Sexton)
-Fantaisie (Julie Inglis)
-Prelude (Lance Bosman)
-Canzona (Reginald Smith Brindle)