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Selecting Your Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Steel Strings and Nylon Strings
Acoustic Guitars and Electric Guitars . . . . . . . . 6
Caring for Your Guitar
Tuning Your Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Tuning with the Audio Tracks
Tuning without the Audio Tracks
How to Hold Your Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Strumming the Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Strumming with a Pick
Strumming with Your Fingers
Time to Strum!
Strumming Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Beats
Introducing the Quarter-Note Slash
The Staff and Treble Clef
Bar Lines, Measures, and Time Signatures
More Time to Strum
ACTIVITY: The Staff and Treble Clef . . . . . . . 11
ACTIVITY: Bar Lines and Measures . . . . . . . . 12
ACTIVITY: The 4
4 Time Signature . . . . . . . . . . 13
ACTIVITY: The Quarter-Note Slash . . . . . . . . 13
ACTIVITY: Counting Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using Your Left Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Hand Position
Placing a Finger on a String
How to Read Chord Diagrams
The Three-String C Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
My First Chord
ACTIVITY: The Three-String C Chord . . . . . . . 17
The Quarter Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Three Blind Mice
ACTIVITY: The Quarter Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
The Three-String G7 Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
My Second Chord
ACTIVITY: The Three-String G7 Chord . . . . . . 21
Troubadour Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Skip to My Lou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
London Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
The Three-String G Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
My Third Chord
ACTIVITY: The Three-String G Chord . . . . . . 26
Three Chords in One Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Rain Comes Down
The Repeat Sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Merrily We Roll Along
ACTIVITY: The Repeat Sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Love Somebody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Three-String D7 Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
My Fourth Chord
ACTIVITY: The Three-String D7 Chord . . . . . . 32
Using D7 with Other Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
When the Saints Go Marching In . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Yankee Doodle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
ACTIVITY: Write Your Own Song with
Three-String Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Getting Acquainted with Music Notation . . . . 37
Notes
The Staff
The Music Alphabet
Clefs
ACTIVITY: The Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Introducing the Quarter Note . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Clap and Count Out Loud
ACTIVITY: The Quarter Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Notes on the First String: Introducing E . . . . . 41
Elizabeth, the Elephant
ACTIVITY: The Note E (1st String) . . . . . . . . . 42
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The Note E with Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Note and Strum
Notes on the First String: Introducing F . . . . . 44
Up-Down-Up
ACTIVITY: The Note F (1st String) . . . . . . . . . 45
The Notes E and F with Chords . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Notes on the First String: Introducing G . . . . 47
The Mountain Climber
ACTIVITY: The Note G (1st String) . . . . . . . . 48
The Notes E, F, and G with Chords . . . . . . . . 49
Brave in the Cave
Single Notes, Then Chord! Chord! Chord! . . . . . . 50
Pumpkin Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Notes on the Second String: Introducing B . . 52
Two Open Strings
Two-String Melody
ACTIVITY: The Note B (2nd String) . . . . . . . . 53
Jumping Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Notes on the Second String: Introducing C . . 55
Ping Pong Song
Soccer Game
ACTIVITY: The Note C (2nd String) . . . . . . . . 56
The Half Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
When I Feel Best
ACTIVITY: The Half Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Notes on the Second String: Introducing D . . 59
A-Choo!
ACTIVITY: The Note D (2nd String) . . . . . . . . 60
ACTIVITY: The Notes B, C, D, E, F, and G . . . 61
ACTIVITY: Notes on the Strings:
B, C, D, E, F, and G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
The Half Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Ode to Joy
ACTIVITY: The Half Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Jingle Bells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Mary Had a Little Lamb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Notes on the Third String: Introducing G . . . . 67
Three Open Strings
Little Steps and Big Leaps
ACTIVITY: The Note G (3rd String) . . . . . . . . 68
Alouette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Notes on the Third String: Introducing A . . . . 70
Introducing the Whole Note
A Is Easy!
Taking a Walk
ACTIVITY: The Note A (3rd String) . . . . . . . . 71
Aura Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
She’ll Be Comin’ ’Round the Mountain . . . . . . . . . 73
Review: Music Matching Games . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Notes on the Fourth String: Introducing D . . 75
Four Open Strings
I Choose Guitar!
ACTIVITY: The Note D (4th String) . . . . . . . . 76
Introducing the Half-Note Slash . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The Lone Star Trail
ACTIVITY: The Half-Note Slash . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Introducing Four-String Chords . . . . . . . . . . . 79
The Four-String G Chord
The Four-String G7 Chord
New Chord Exercise
ACTIVITY: The Four-String
G and G7 Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Rock Me Mozart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Notes on the Fourth String: Introducing E . . . 82
On My Horse
ACTIVITY: The Note E (4th String) . . . . . . . . 83
Old MacDonald Had a Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
The Four-String C Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Introducing Common Time
C Blues
ACTIVITY: The Four-String C Chord . . . . . . . . 85
ACTIVITY: Common Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
ACTIVITY: Write Your Own Song
with Four-String Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
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Notes on the Fourth String: Introducing F . . . 87
Baseball
ACTIVITY: The Note F (4th String) . . . . . . . . . 88
ACTIVITY: Notes on the Strings: D, E, F, G, and A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Reuben, Reuben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Dotted Half Notes & 3
4 Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Three Is for Me!
ACTIVITY: The Dotted Half Note
ACTIVITY: The 3
4 Time Signature . . . . . . . . . . 92
Playing Two Notes at Once . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Daisy Bell
Notes on the Fifth String: Introducing A . . . . 94
Five Open Strings
Trash Truck
ACTIVITY: The Note A (5th String) . . . . . . . . 95
Scarborough Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Notes on the Fifth String: Introducing B . . . . 97
Cleaning Up
ACTIVITY: The Note B (5th String) . . . . . . . . 98
My Pet Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Notes on the Fifth String: Introducing C . . . 100
Barking Song
ACTIVITY: The Note C (5th String) . . . . . . . 101
Volga Boatmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Peter Gray
The Dotted-Half-Note Slash . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Liebesträum
ACTIVITY: The Dotted-Half-Note Slash . . . . 104
A Minor Boogie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Notes on the Sixth String: Introducing E . . . 106
Six Open Strings
Giraffe Under the Staff
ACTIVITY: The Note E (6th String) . . . . . . . 107
Two E’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Notes on the Sixth String: Introducing F . . . 109
Introducing the Fermata
Dad’s Classic Car
ACTIVITY: The Note F (6th String) . . . . . . . . 110
ACTIVITY: The Fermata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Sakura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Notes on the Sixth String: Introducing G . . . 113
All the Notes I Know So Far
Do-Re-Mi Is for Me!
ACTIVITY: The Note G (6th String) . . . . . . . 114
Spy Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
The Farmer in the Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
B.I.N.G.O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Notes on the First String: Introducing High A . . 118
Back to Russia
ACTIVITY: The Note High A (1st String) . . . 119
ACTIVITY: Notes on the Strings: E, F, G, A, B, C, and High A . . . . . . . . . . 120
The Riddle Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Pickup Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
A-Tisket, A-Tasket
ACTIVITY: Counting Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
The Yellow Rose of Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Tempo Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Three-Tempo Rock
1812 Overture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Reading Three-String Chords as Notes . . . . . 127
Theme from Carmen
ACTIVITY: Three-String Chords as Notes . . . 128
Reading Four-String Chords as Notes . . . . . . 129
Rockin’ with Chords
ACTIVITY: Four-String Chords as Notes . . . . 130
Bass-Chord Accompaniment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Can-Can (duet) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Theme from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Introducing the Whole Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
The Desert Song (duet)
Echo Rock
ACTIVITY: Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
ACTIVITY: The Whole Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Ties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Shenandoah
ACTIVITY: Ties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
When the Saints Go Marching In (duet) . . . . . . 138
Review: Music Matching Games . . . . . . . . . . 139
Fingerboard Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Chord Encyclopedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
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& 44 Û Û Û Œ
C
Û Û Û Œ
G7
Û Û Û Œ ŒÛ Û Û
C
Count: 1 2 3 (4)
(rest) (rest) (rest) (rest)
1 2 3 (4) 1 2 3 (4) 1 2 3 (4)Play one one more just like a trou ba- - dour.chord then
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Troubadour Song
Remember to stop the sound by lightly touching the strings with the side of your hand on each Œ . Wait one beat .
*A troubadour was a musician who traveled around singing and playing .
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& 44 Œ Û Û ÛG
Oh when the
Û Û Û Ûsaints
Û Û Û Ûgo march - ing
Û Û Û Ûin,
& Û Û Û ÛOh when the
Û Û Û Ûsaints go
Û Û Û Ûmarch - ing
Û Û Û ÛD7
in,
& Û Û Û ÛOh how I
Û Û Û ÛG
want to
Û Û Û ÛG7
be in that
Û Û Û ÛC
num - ber
& Û Û Û ÛWhen the
Û Û Û ÛG
saints go
Û Û Û ÛD7
march - ing
Û Û Û ŒG
in.
(rest)
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When the Saints Go Marching In
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& 44 œo œ œ œFrom the bot - tom
œ1 œ œ œto the top, the
œ3 œ œ œfear - less climb - er
œ1 œ œ Œdoes not stop.
& œ1 œ œ œWith his pick and
œ3 œ œ œtuned gui - tar, the
œ1 œ œ3 œpre - pared climb - er
œo œ3 œo Œwill go far.
G Warm-Up
& 4
4 ..
œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
& œ Third finger
1st fret
2nd fret
3rd fret
G
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The Mountain Climber
A note on the space above the staff is called G . Use finger 3 to press the 1st string at the 3rd fret . Use a downpick motion to play only the 1st string .
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Hear
this note!Book 1Track 35
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