Composer: Luise Walker
Für den Anfang im Gitarrenspiel | Getting started with the guitar
Guitar
- Order No. 1677
- ISMN: 979-0-2044-1677-6
- Size Bach size
- Composer/Author Walker, Luise
- Number of pages 16 pages
- Kind of publication Playing score
- Instrumentation Guitar
- Level of difficulty very easy to easy
Luise Walker’s Für den Anfang is an introduction to guitar playing that presents fundamental technical and musical skills through short exercises, melodies, and pieces.
The contents include the melody “Kuckuck, Kuckuck,” scales in C major and G major, arpeggios, chord playing, and an alternating-stroke exercise.In addition, the collection features well-known tunes such as ‘Kuckuck, Kuckuck’, ‘Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär’ and ‘Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf’, as well as a melody by Luise Walker and an allegro by Mauro Giuliani.
The edition combines basic guitar techniques with a selection of short musical examples. The contents cover melodic playing, scales, arpeggios, chords, and alternating-stroke technique, introducing fundamental aspects of guitar playing in a concise and accessible format. The edition is classified as easy and is intended for guitar.
1. Melody: ‘Cuckoo, Cuckoo’
2. C major scale
3. G major scale
4. Arpeggios
5. Chord playing
6. Alternating strumming exercise
7. Melody: ‘If I Were a Little Bird’
8. Melody (Luise Walker)
9. Lullaby ‘Sleep, Little Child, Sleep’
10. Allegro (Mauro Giuliani)
11. Capriccio (Johann Kaspar Mertz)
12. American folk song
13. Prelude (Matteo Carcassi)
14. Fluency exercises
15. Chord playing
16. Arpeggios
17. Irish folk song
18. D major scale and D major cadence
19. Dance (Luise Walker)
20. Folk song
21. Capriccio (Luise Walker)
22. Waltz (Luise Walker)
23. A major scale and A major cadence
24. A little man stands in the forest
25. E major scale and E major cadenza
26. Etude (arpeggio)
27. Lute dance
28. Barré exercises
29. Etude in thirds (Luise Walker)
30. The Postillon
31. Legato playing
32. Ländler
33. Fantasy on ‘Old Folks at Home’ (Luise Walker)