The Most Popular Method for Learning How to Play By Morty Manus and Ron Manus Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred's Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. This updated and expanded edition features a new layout, making it easier to read and learn. Now included are blues, country, folk, jazz, and rock styles, plus more pop songs! New DVDs with iPod-compatible video are now available for the visual learner, and correlating theory, chord, and pop books ensure that you'll get everything you need from one complete method. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Guitar Method---the first and best choice for today's beginning guitar students.Book 1 covers how to hold your guitar, tuning your guitar, basics of reading music, notes on all six strings, chords, scales and songs, bass-chord accompaniments, duets, photos and diagrams, and acoustic and electric guitars. Titles: Singin' in the Rain * Take Me Home Country Roads * Over the Rainbow * Annie's Song * When the Saints Go Marching In. PP58 Contents Title The Parts of Your Guitar How to Hold Your Guitar The Right Hand The Left Hand How to Tune Your Guitar to a Keyboard Getting Acquainted with Music The First String E Playing with E, F, G More Still More No More Sound-Off: How to Count Time The Second String B Two-String Rock Merry-Go-Round Beautiful Brown Eyes Guitar Rock Jingle Bells Alouette The Third String G Au clair de la lune Three-String Rock Largo Back to the '50s Repeat Signs Aura Lee Introducing Chords Chord Study No. 1 Chord Study No. 2 Three-String C Chord Ode to Joy Quarter Rest Rock 'n' Rhythm Three-String G7 Chord Two-Chord Rock Love Somebody Three-String G Chord Rockin' with G & C Down in the Valley Oh, Susanna The Fourth String D Old MacDonald Had a Farm Hold Sign (Fermata) Reuben, Reuben Common Time G Whiz Bohemian Folk Song Good Night, Ladies Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two) Four-String G & G7 Chords Laughing Polka The Fifth String A Volga Boatmen Peter Gray Low-Down Rock Liebesträum Boogie Style Introducing High A Rockin' in Dorian Mode The Riddle Song Incomplete Measures A-tisket, A-tasket The Yellow Rose of Texas The Sixth String E Down Low Bottom to Top Tempo Signs Three-Tempo Rock The Blue Danube Waltz Bass-Chord Accompaniment Can-Can (duet) Dynamics Echo Waltz Signs of Silence The Desert Song (Study in Counting) Echo Rock She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain Four-String C Chord Ties When the Saints Go Marching In (duet or trio) More Bass-Chord Accompaniments Chiapanecas Eighth Notes Happy Birthday to You Eighth-Note Bounce Walkin' Bass Rock More Dynamic Signs Pachelbel's Canon Annie's Song Sharps, Flats, and Naturals The Chromatic Scale Chromatic Rock My Melancholy Baby Over the Rainbow Four-String D7 Chord Four-Beat Blues Amazing Grace Rockin' the Bach Buffalo Gals The Major Scale Key Signatures Eighth Rests Eighth Rest Exercise No. 1 Eighth Rest Exercise No. 2 Eighth Rest Exercise No. 3 Bill Bailey La Bamba Dotted Quarter Notes Auld Lang Syne Singin' in the Rain Take Me Home, Country Roads Certificate of Promotion
