GUITAR BUDDY Book & CD by Karl Aranjo
• 85 pages of Guitar Fun!
• Published by Professional Music Institute
• Format: Paperback
• Number of Pages: 85 pages
• Publisher: guitaru.com
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933657421
• ISBN-13: 978-1933657424
• Book Dimensions: 30.2 x 22.6 x 1 cm
• Weight: 522 g
• Accompanying CD: Yes
Guitar Buddy is a fast, fun and easy way to learn to play great sounding guitar. Written by Karl Aranjo, Guitar Buddy comprises an instructional book and accompaniment CD for guitar.
With a little effort, you should find the Guitar Buddy book and CD a fun, easy and highly effective method for quickly learning to play the great sounding guitar music of our day.
Guitar Buddy is a radical departure and an innovative improvement in learning how to play the guitar with a firm focus on the outcome of you playing your guitar. Karl Aranjo is not only a great musician but a brilliant teacher – your own private teacher and his method is all about quickly learning how to play great sounding guitar while making it both fun and highly educational.
Guitar Buddy is about more than just playing the guitar – this book and CD yields astonishing results with keen insights into the actual craft of writing and making music.
Guitar Buddy is your primer for guitar playing pleasure – more than simply a purchase . . . consider Guitar Buddy an investment!
GUITAR BUDDY BOOK – TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introductory Pages
• Guitar Terminology
• Guitarists Numbering System
• Guitarist Technique
• Musical Notation
• Recommended Equipment
• Tuning by Ear
• The Big Picture
CHAPTER ONE – MAKING FRIENDS WITH YOUR GUITAR
• Making Basic Chords Musical
• Developing A Chord Vocabulary
• Understanding Chord Changes
• Playing Rhthyms with a Band
• Chord Quality
• Reference & Review
• How To Read Tab
• Counting Eighth Notes
CHAPTER TWO – HOW TO PLAY IN A ROCK BAND
• The Big Back Beat
• Introducing Power Chords
• Power chord Practice & Pregressions
• Power Chord Tricks & Grooves
• Classic Rockin Blues
• Chord Refernce Charts & Diagrams
CHAPTER THREE – CLASSIC ROCK TECHNIQUE
• Fingering Hot Licks & Riffs
• Learning Famous Phrases
• Power Chord Practice & Progressions
• The World of D, C & G
• House of the Rising Sun
• Conclusion & Review
• Essential Music Theory
• The Major Scale
• How To Read Scale Diagrams
• Position Playing
CHAPTER FOUR – SCALES & LEAD PLAYING
• Essential C Scale with Melodic Study
• Essential G Scale with Melodic Study
• A Major vs. A minor with Melodic Studies
• E Major vs. E Minor with Melodic Studies
• Rock & Blues Scales with Melodic Studies
• Chromatic Scale with Melodic Study
• Flight of the Bumblebee
• Conclusion & Review
CHAPTER FIVE – UNIVERSAL GUITAR REPERTOIRE
• Bach’s Minuet in G
• Greensleeves
• The Star Spangled Banner
• Malaguena
• Sailor’s Hornpipe
• Blank Tab Template
Karl Aranjo is a professional guitarist, author and celebrated educator residing in Southern California. His former students include musical school graduates and many successful recording artists. Karl is the author of SIX best selling, industry standard instructional books, the Guitar Scale Guru, Guitar Chord Guru, The Working Musicians Dictionary Of Terms, A Blueprint For Hot Guitar, Cool Chords and the internationally acclaimed Guitar Buddy. A graduate of Berklee College Of Music and protégé of the late William G. Leavitt, Karl has studied with some of the best in the business including Tony Mottola, Ted Greene, Jim Kelly, Larry Baione and Robert Conti. A highly sought after private teacher, in addition to his Berklee degree in musical performance Karl holds degrees in Psychology and Education. Karl Aranjo’s is an altruist and his work is done purely out of a desire to serve his fellow musicians and to bring his specialised knowledge to all who thirst for it. His lessons are informative, inspirational and fun! Karl’s ground breaking methods, websites, books and exclusive private lessons are all designed to help you reach your goals more quickly than you ever thought possible.
