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Beginning Guitar for the Songwriter

Name: Beginning Guitar for the Songwriter
ISBN: 9781732996816

Guitar Accompaniment for Composition

Ian Robbins,

English
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eBook - ePub

Beginning Guitar for the Songwriter

Guitar Accompaniment for Composition

Ian Robbins,

About this book

Beginning Guitar for the Songwriter: Guitar Accompaniment for Composition is the ultimate guide to learning the guitar from a songwriting perspective. Whether you write, sing, or play a different instrument, Beginning Guitar for the Songwriter will provide detailed instruction on essential topics on guitar harmony, technique, and rhythm, with a focus on being able to create unique chord progressions and accompaniment patterns.Authored by Ian Robbins, this text provides a fresh and humorous approach to learning guitar by focusing on an ideal approach to composing Pop, Folk, Rock, and Country guitar parts, without being weighted down with staff notation pitch reading. Instead, this book focuses on tablature and rhythmic notation so as to expedite the process in which one can begin to compose guitar parts for their own original music.

Artistic photography, color-coded tables, chord diagrams, practice exercises, assignments and even emojis help guide the reader to insure comprehensive understanding of the presented material.

Beginning Guitar for the Songwriter includes:

Information on the advantages and disadvantages of different acoustic and electric guitars
A thorough guide to guitar and musical terminology
Over 20 different open chord shapes
Barre and Power chords
Pick-style and fingerstyle accompaniment patterns
Instructions on reading tablature and rhythmic notation
Photographic dillustrations of hand and finger placement
Numerous practice progressions
Compositional tips and tricks

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