Guitar Exercises for Dummies [With CD] - Mark Phillips

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Résumé :
Train your fingers to become a lean, mean guitar-playing machine! Want to sharpen your guitar-playing skills? This practice-oriented playbook is packed with hands-on technique builders, from warm-up exercises and scales to arpeggios, chords, and much more. You'll see how to apply your technique with performance pieces at the end of each chapter. * Review basic guitar fundamentals - posture, holding the guitar, sitting and standing with the guitar * Brush up on guitar notation - decoding tablature, comprehending chord diagrams, interpreting neck diagrams, recognizing rhythm slashes * Warm up away from the guitar - release tension, improve breathing, prepare your mind and body to play * Wake up those fingers - limber up your fingers by playing simple exercises * Develop strength, speed, and independence - play single-note patterns and chord progressions Open the book and find: * More than 300 exercises in various keys, positions, and rhythms * Drills & tips to perfect your playing and maximize your practice time * Technique building opportunities * Scales, scale sequences, arpeggios, arpeggio sequences, and chords * Full-length pieces to play along with * Ways to improve your musicianship Bonus CD Includes * Selected exercises from each chapter * Every performance piece * Open string tuning notes * Metronome tracks of different tempos

Biographie:
Mark Phillips is a guitarist, arranger, author, and editor with more than 30 years in music publishing. Jon Chappell is a multi-style guitarist, arranger, author, and journalist, and former editor of Guitar magazine. Phillips and Chappell are bestselling authors of Guitar For Dummies, 2nd Edition.

Sommaire:
Introduction. Part I: Preparing to Practice. Chapter 1: Reviewing Guitar Fundamentals. Chapter 2: Warming Up for Your Practice Sessions. Part II: Scales and Scale Sequences. Chapter 3: Putting the Major Scales to Use in Your Playing. Chapter 4: Adding Major Scale Sequences to Your Repertoire. Chapter 5: Tackling the Three Minor Scales. Chapter 6: Examining Minor Scale Sequences. Part III: Arpeggios and Arpeggio Sequences. Chapter 7: Breaking Out with Major Arpeggios. Chapter 8: Discovering How to Play Major Arpeggio Sequences. Chapter 9: Getting to Know Minor Arpeggios. Chapter 10: Looking at Minor Arpeggio Sequences. Chapter 11: Enhancing Your Playing with Seventh Chord Arpeggios. Chapter 12: Trying Your Hand at Seventh Chord Arpeggio Sequences. Part IV: Chords and Additional Exercises. Chapter 13: Building Finger Independence with Chord Exercises. Chapter 14: Developing Strength and Speed by Playing Single-Note Exercises. Part V: The Part of Tens. Chapter 15: Ten Tips for Maximizing Your Practice Time. Chapter 16: Ten Ways to Improve Your Musicianship. Appendix: How to Use the CD.