Tuning Your Guitar. Over the Rainbow...44

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1 Book Review Introducing B-lat B-lat Bop ood Night Ladies Key Signatures Ode to Joy (Extended Version) Eighth Notes Jammin' with Eighth Notes lementine o Tell Aunt Rhody Eighth Note Rock otted Quarter Notes ounting otted Quarter Notes ockles and Mussels Auld Lang Syne The own-and-up Stroke The Streets of Laredo Introducing -Sharp Little Brown Jug Introducing the our-string 7 hord Rockin' the Bach Amazing race Bass-hord Accompaniment in ielito Lindo Sharps #, lats b, and Naturals n Half Steps and Whole Steps The hromatic Scale hromatic Scale oing Up hromatic Scale oing own hromatic Rock Rockabilly Bass Line The our-string hord our-beat Blues rankie and Johnny The Major Scale Introducing the Major Scale Major Scale Exercise This Is an Octave Joy to the World The Major Scale Key Signature Polly Wolly oodle rescendo and iminuendo The Major Scale Accidentals ive My Regards to Broadway The Man on the lying Trapeze Introducing Eighth Rests lap and ount Out Loud La Bamba Three Principal hords Rockin' with Three hords in King Louie Rocks Introducing ive- Six-String hords The ive-string A hord The Six-String E7 hord Three Principal hords in A The -Bar Blues in A (duet) Introducing the Pentatonic Scale Over the Rainbow Music Matching ames uitar ingerboard hart hord Encyclopedia ertificate of ompletion Tuning Your uitar Tracks The contains all the warm-ups and tunes in Book 3, so you may listen and play along with them. You need to be sure your guitar is in tune every time you start to play, especially when you want to play along with the. Listen carefully to the instructions on Track, then use Track to get your guitar in tune.

2 Eighth Note Rock Track Eighth Note Rock Allegro Moderato c f etc. Œ

3 Use finger and to press the 3rd and st strings at the nd fret. Use finger 3 to press the nd string at the. Hear is note! th Track 3 st fret A nd fret our-beat Blues our-beat Blues Track 3 Moderato c # # # n # n # This tune uses sharps, flats, naturals, and the four-string chord. Play it slowly at first and gradually increase the speed as you become more comfortable playing it. 7

4 [3.] The three principal chords are the most commonly used chords used in that key. If you number all the notes of a major scale, there are eight total notes. Below are the numbered notes of the Major scale. 3 # The three principal chords are the chords based on the st, 4th, and 5th notes of the major scale. In the key of, the three principal chords are (), (4), and 7 (5). x x st fret st fret st fret nd fret nd fret nd fret B E E 39 7 A

5 Learn both parts of this duet and play along with the recording, your teacher, a parent, or a friend. To play the rhythm so it sounds like the real blues, play the groups of two eighth notes with the first note a little longer, and the second a little shorter (listen to the recording of The -Bar Blues in A to hear how it sounds). This blues rhythm is called swing eighths. Whenever you see swing eighths written at the beginning of a song, play the eighth notes with this rhythm. The -Bar Blues in A (duet) Track 56 c c Moderato swing eighths # J. # # # The -Bar Blues (duet) # J. # # # # # J. # # # # # # # # # # J. # # # J. # # # # # 4 # # #