Bruce Emery - Guitar From Scratch The Sequel

English | 92 pages | PDF + WMA | 60 MB

We’ll start with Stupid Chord Tricks, clever little mutations and variations that pour easily out of the guitar. People have stumbled onto them, they sound good and, in any case, you should know about them. They constitute the slang of the guitar.
Passing Chords come next. These are the “slash” chords that feature unexpected bass notes that serve to tie together the chords in a sequence. In Bass Runs, the basslines are physically extracted from the chords and played as single notes in Walkups and Walkdowns.
Finally, we get into playing Single Note Lines. We’ll use familiar melodies, talk about different right- and left-hand techniques and do a little blues improv using what are called Pentatonic Scales. Then we’ll move into the realm of reading Standard Music Notation (the dots and the flags and the beams) with as little pain as possible.