Watt About Guitar Book 2, with CD

Watt About Guitar Book 2, (112 pages), includes: CD; chart of notes on the guitar up to the 12th fret with music notation; bar chord chart and advanced chord chart.

Teaches you the notes on the guitar up to the 12th fret; major and minor scales; transposition; written exercises; how to add a simple bass to a melody; intervals; chord construction; power chords, primary chords; 6/8, 3/8, 7/8 and 2/2 Time Signatures; grouping; Blues scale and Blues Rhythm; playing pieces in the key of C major, G major, D major, A major; E major, A minor and E minor.

There are 91 pieces to play on the guitar, music styles included are: Lead & Rhythm; Fingerstyle; Classical; Folk; Blues; and the beginnings of Spanish Guitar.

Pupils learn how to play both the lead and rhythm parts as well as make their own arrangements by taking a melody and adding bass and harmony notes; even changing key if necessary.

There is a whole chapter dedicated to Blues (even if you are a classical purist, you have to learn to deal with blue’s long-short rhythms as many of the examination syllabuses include modern/jazz/blues pieces.)

Many of the pieces are Rhona Watt’s own compositions.