Alfred’s Basic Guitar Method Book1 3rd edition

Recognized for over 50 years as the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available, Alfred’s Basic Guitar Method has introduced over 3 million beginners to the joy of playing guitar. This updated and expanded edition features a new layout, making it easier to read and learn. Now included are blues, country, folk, jazz, and rock styles, plus more pop songs! New DVDs with iPod-compatible video are now available for the visual learner, and correlating theory, chord, and pop books ensure that you’ll get everything you need from one complete method. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred’s Basic Guitar Method—the first and best choice for today’s beginning guitar students.

Book 1 covers how to hold your guitar, tuning your guitar, basics of reading music, notes on all six strings, chords, scales and songs, bass-chord accompaniments, duets, photos and diagrams, and acoustic and electric guitars. Titles: Singin’ in the Rain * Take Me Home Country Roads * Over the Rainbow * Annie’s Song * When the Saints Go Marching In.

Contents
Alouette
Amazing Grace
Annie’s Song
A-tisket, A-tasket
Au clair de la lune
Auld Lang Syne
Aura Lee
Back to the ’50s
Bass-Chord Accompaniment
Beautiful Brown Eyes
Bill Bailey
Bohemian Folk Song
Boogie Style
Bottom to Top
Buffalo Gals
Can-Can (duet)
Certificate of Promotion
Chiapanecas
Chord Study No. 1
Chord Study No. 2
Chromatic Rock
Common Time
Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)
Dotted Quarter Notes
Down in the Valley
Down Low
Dynamics
Echo Rock
Echo Waltz
Eighth Notes
Eighth Rest Exercise No. 1
Eighth Rest Exercise No. 2
Eighth Rest Exercise No. 3
Eighth Rests
Eighth-Note Bounce
Four-Beat Blues
Four-String C Chord
Four-String D7 Chord
Four-String G & G7 Chords
G Whiz
Getting Acquainted with Music
Good Night, Ladies
Guitar Rock
Happy Birthday to You
Hold Sign (Fermata)
How to Hold Your Guitar
How to Tune Your Guitar to a Keyboard
Incomplete Measures
Introducing Chords
Introducing High A
Jingle Bells
Key Signatures
La Bamba
Largo
Laughing Polka
Liebestraum
Love Somebody
Low-Down Rock
Merry-Go-Round
More
More Bass-Chord Accompaniments
More Dynamic Signs
My Melancholy Baby
No More
Ode to Joy
Oh, Susanna
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Over the Rainbow
Pachelbel’s Canon
Peter Gray
Playing with E, F, G
Quarter Rest
Repeat Signs
Reuben, Reuben
Rock ‘n’ Rhythm
Rockin’ in Dorian Mode
Rockin’ the Bach
Rockin’ with G & C
Sharps, Flats, and Naturals
She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain
Signs of Silence
Singin’ in the Rain
Sound-Off: How to Count Time
Still More
Take Me Home, Country Roads
Tempo Signs
The Blue Danube Waltz
The Chromatic Scale
The Desert Song (Study in Counting)
The Fifth String A
The First String E
The Fourth String D
The Left Hand
The Major Scale
The Parts of Your Guitar
The Riddle Song
The Right Hand
The Second String B
The Sixth String E
The Third String G
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Three-String C Chord
Three-String G Chord
Three-String G7 Chord
Three-String Rock
Three-Tempo Rock
Ties
Two-Chord Rock
Two-String Rock
Volga Boatmen
Walkin’ Bass Rock
When the Saints Go Marching In (duet or trio)