Displaying 1 of 1 2017 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials, Electronic Resources Title: Learning to play guitar : chords, scales, and solos / Dr. Colin McAllister. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2017] Description: 4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 244 pages ; 19 cm) digital optical video file DVD video Summary: Learn how to read music and play the guitar from a master of the instrument. Series: The great courses. Better Living. Hobby Great courses (DVD). Better living. Subjects: Guitar -- Instruction and study. Guitar -- Methods -- Self-instruction. Guitar -- Studies and exercises. Genre: Filmed lectures. Educational films. Instructional films. Nonfiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Other Author: McAllister, Colin, 1970- lecturer. Teaching Company, publisher. Notes: Title from container. In container (19 cm.). 24 lectures (30 min. each). Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243). Lecturer: Dr. Colin McAllister. DVD. In English; closed-captioned. Contents: 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 -- The pentatonic scale -- The 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. ISBN: 9781501968679 150196867X 9781629973968 1629973963 Publisher Number: GV0715 7776 ID7776A-01 PB7776A PD7776A Other Number: 982386282 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 669192 # Local items in: 0 # System items in: 0 Call Number: GREAT DVD 787.87193 Learning Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
