Composer: Gerd Richter
Beginning Guitar Method
Guitar
- Order No. 3397
- ISMN: 979-0-2045-3397-8
- ISBN: 978-3-920696-06-5
- Size Pariser Format, Hochformat
- Composer/Author Richter, Gerd
- Number of pages 48 pages
- Kind of publication Playing score
- Instrumentation 1 – 2 guitars
- Level of difficulty easy to medium
The focus of this teaching material is on melodic playing in the various positions of the guitar. The included pieces allow for versatile and varied use in lessons. The volume is designed as a flexible supplement to common guitar methods and can be used independently of any particular approach
Key to Symbols (Fingering, Position Notation, Guitar Tuning, Chord Symbols, Notes and Rests)
Alternate picking with finger placement on the strings
Preliminary exercises for the left hand in the C major octave range of the fifth fret
Three notes on the second string
Three notes on the first string
Kloterjettsche
Two notes on the third string
The Sandman
The C major scale
Waltz
March
Buzz, buzz, buzz
The Windmill
English folk song
Minuet
Accidentals
Folk song
News / Kolo kalendara
The Change of Position
Extension of the Range
Piece
Hey, hitch up the cart
A humorous piece
La chanson du Roi Henri IV
Minuet
The Cockfight
The Cat and the Mouse
Branle du Quercy
Yugoslavian dance song
Dance
The Soldier’s Spring Song
The 7th Position
There Was a Shepherdess
At the Wirags’
Oh, Susanna
Kalinka
Allemande
Ring, Ring, the Bells Are Ringing
Bourrée
The Second Position
It, it, it and it
The little flowers are sleeping
Panliran
G major
D major
C major
Stamp away, steam engine!
Bourrée
Aria
Farewell, brothers
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Bourrée
Gavotte
Preliminary exercise
Folk song
Trata
Kariatidon
Passepied
Two-part playing with open (unfretted) bass notes (thumb without pressing, alternating strokes with pressing)
Lying Song
Slovak Dance
Sur le Pont d’Avignon
In March, the Farmer
The Nightingale
Clementine
English Dance
Canon
Must I Then...
Three Young Drummers
Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
Courante
No Land More Beautiful in This Day and Age
The Notes on the Bass Strings (2nd position)
Practice piece
The first position
Key signatures with sharps and flats, and their parallel minor keys
Henri Martin
Two-part playing with fingered bass notes (double-finger exercises)
Balkan dance
Dance song from Sweden
Sixths, octaves, tenths
Practice piece
Terts
Three- and four-part playing
Arietta
Minuet
Entrée
Cadence playing, chord breakdowns, scale studies, thirds
Greensleeves
Etude
Allegro
Andantino
Study
Waltz
Bourrée
Piece for performance
The slur technique
Jumping dance
Dance from Hungary
The most important simple chord fingerings
The Drunken Sailor
Au Clair de la Lune
Russian folk song
Barre chords
Goddesses
Oh, Susanna
Cadenza, scale exercises, tone study