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Learn how to read music and play the guitar from a master of the instrument

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The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures

Lecturer: Colin McAllister

DVD

In English

Guitar basics: play a song in 60 seconds -- Tuning up, reading music, and dexterity -- Classical guitar position and posture -- Learning how to practice the guitar -- Playing fingerstyle guitar -- Playing rhythm guitar -- Pentatonic scale -- Blues scale and lateral stretching -- Planting for control and accuracy -- Guitar tremolo: gaining speed -- Legato and power chords -- Travis picking for folk, country, and rock -- Hammer-ons and pull-offs -- Finger independence and chord theory -- Crosspicking and bass lines -- Piano-style guitar and fingernail care -- Syncopated strumming and movable scales -- A new pentatonic scale and the capo -- Barre chords: movable chords -- Flamenco technique: rasgueado -- Playing with natural harmonics -- Jazz harmony and Dorian mode -- DADGAD tuning and Lydian mode -- Taking the guitar to the next level