Carl Fischer The Guitar Grimoire The Fingerpicking Book

Adam Kadmon's phenomenal knowledge of guitar technique and popular harmony for the guitar informs every book in his highly successful Guitar Grimoire Series. Now he has created a special book, just for fingerpicking guitarists. Starting with basic fingerpicking chord patterns and expanding to major and minor scales and bass ostinato variations, Kadmon uses thousands of fingerboard diagrams, charts and musical examples (conventional staff and tablature) to guide and instruct the player on the best way to master the techniques of the finger-picking guitar and enhance their playing facility. Practical applications are suggested to make use of the material in the creation of original songs and compositions. The Fingerpicking Book is an essential addition to the library of anyone interested in this particular style of guitar playing.

Table of Contents

• Fingerpicking
  

• Understanding the Notes
• Middle C and Guitar Notation
• Rhythm and Time Signatures
• Tablature
• Fingering
• Pattern 1
• Pattern 2
• Pattern 3
• Pattern 4
• Pattern 5
• Pattern 6
• Pattern 7
• Pattern 8
• Fingerpicking the Scales
• "Patterns in F Major (ascending, descending, both and alternating)"
• Coils
• Three Note Coils in F Major
• Four Note Coils in F Major
• Single String Exercises in F Major
• Two String Exercises in F Major
• Scale Tone Thirds in F Major
• Keys F-sharp to E
• Practicing the Pentatonics
• "Patterns in F Major Pentatonic (ascending, descending, both and alternating)"
• Three Note Coils in F Minor Pentatonic
• Four Note Coils in F Minor Pentatonic
• Two String Pentatonic Exercises
• Keys F-sharp to E
• Open D with Ostinato Bass
• Learning the Upbeats
• Mixing the Down and Upbeats
• Introducing New Notes on the Third String
• Introducing Sixteenth Notes
• Mixing the Eighths and the Sixteenths
• Using the Second String with Ostinato Bass
• Using the First String with Ostinato Bass
• Mixing the Strings
• Playing Other Chords While in Drop D Tuning
• D Major Scale Over Open D Ostinato Bass
  
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