Guitar Basics Teacher's Book E-Book

James Longworth

• Herausgeber: Faber Music Limited
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 86

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

The full eBook version of Guitar Basics Teacher's Book in fixed-layout format. Guitar Basics Teacher's Book presents accompaniment parts for over 60 pieces in the best-selling Guitar Basics pupil's book, plus helpful notes and tips for teachers. These materials were previously available on the pupil's book ECD. Guitar Basics is a landmark method for young guitarists. It starts at absolute beginner level and progresses to Initial/Preparatory Grade. The method is set out in sixteen stages and contains original pieces and traditional tunes in an array of styles including classical, folk and world music as well as well-known favourites.

Leseprobe

Unless otherwise stated, all musical content is by James Longworth and Nick Walker

© 2009 by Faber Music Ltd

This edition first published in 2021

Bloomsbury House, 74–77 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DA

Music processed by Donald Thomson

Cover design by Susan Clarke and Elizabeth Ogden

Illustration by Andy Cooke

Printed in England by Caligraving Ltd

All rights reserved

ISBN10: 0-571-54166-6

ISBN: 978-0-571-59204-3

Guitar Basics

Teacher’s Book

James Longworth and Nick Walker

Contents

Notes for teachers

page

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Stage 1

Mulberry Boogie

4

Shaky

4

Totem Pole

5

Stage 2

Spanish Bee

5

Open All Strings

6

Big Blue Bear

6

Easy Bees

7

The Dance of the Clowns

8

Stage 3

Blues ‘n’ Shoes

9

Walking in the Rain

9

Stage 4

Groovy

10

On ‘n’ Off

10

Reggae GAGA

11

The Irish Washerwoman

11

Joe Cool

12

The House of Doom

12

Spooky

13

I Spied a Spy

13

Mild Thing

14

Salsa Verde

14

Stage 5

Bees at Sea

15

Turkish Delight

15

The Soldier’s March

15

The Finger Song

16

Rhyme Time

17

Hear that Train a-Comin’

18

Up and Down the Ladder

19

Rock the Boat

19

Windmill Song

19

Stage 6

Chunk of Funk

20

Falling Leaves

20

Canon

21

Sunday Morning

21

Run, Don’t Walk

22

La Colombina

22

The Star

23

Beware of Bears

23

It’s So Easy

24

Calypso

24

Push and Shove

24

Stage 7

Bossy Nova

25

Safari

25

Cool Cat

26

Hannah’s Mouse

26

My Grandad’s Dog

27

Blue Who?

27

Scaly Fish

28

Stage 8

Skater Kid

28

Swing the Cat

29

In the Bleak Midwinter

30

Melody’s Song

31

High in the Rockies

31

Up, Down, Flying Around

32

Stage 9

Rock E and A

32

A and E

33

LemonADE

33

Stage 11

The Keystone Cops

34

Zoo Blues

34

Stage 12

D Rex

35

The Lonesome Cowboy

35

Stage 13

Rinky Tink

36

Olé

36

Rabbit Song

37

The South American Way

37

Stage 16

Tango Hideaway

38

Sore Fingers

39

Giuliani and Aunty

40

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Notes for teachers

Guitar Basics

introduces skills in a fun, step-by-step

way. The following tips and activities may be useful:

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Always encourage a relaxed right arm. The arm

should lightly rest on top of the guitar, forming a

gentle arch at the wrist. The thumb should rest on

the thickest string and form a tunnel shape with

the fingers. Use the movements in tunes such as

‘Shaky’ to encourage a relaxed right arm from the

very beginning.

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Learning the location of the high and low open

strings on the guitar can be counter-intuitive. For

this reason it can be helpful for some pupils to talk

about the thickest, thinnest, plastic and metal

strings.

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Try to encourage pupils to be creative by composing

and copying rhythms from the outset, such as in

‘Copy Cats’. This call-and-response is the beginning

of improvisation.

•

When introducing the first fretted note A, ensure

that the second finger presses the string with the

fingertip and check for a ‘groove’. Try not to name

the note ‘A’ until the action of playing the note has

been learnt. Stickers can be used to show the exact

spot the finger presses. The ‘thumbs-up’ sign is a

good way to remind pupils of the correct left-hand

thumb position.

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In order to keep such basic repertoire interesting

we have introduced syncopation very early, for

example the melody of ‘Mild Thing’. However it is

very important to reinforce this with lots of

clapping practice. Use the words to aid memory of

the rhythm.

•

Some pieces encourage pupils to explore the guitar

as a percussion instrument. In ‘The Soldier’s March’

you can make a snare drum sound by crossing the

two thickest strings and strumming them with your

thumb. With the teacher’s accompaniment, this can

make for a very good performance piece.

•

If you are teaching in groups and some children

learn the pieces quicker than others you could ask

the quicker ones to play a harmony part. ‘Rock the

Boat’ and ‘The Windmill Song’ are good examples

of these.

•

Improvising is an excellent skill to learn at the early

stages of music-making. ‘Open All Strings’ is ideal

for improvising with open strings, but also to return

to when new notes are learnt. ‘Chunk of Funk’ is

also suited to this and works well as a call and

response activity between teacher and pupil.

•

It can sometimes be quite challenging to get

children to practise their scales! You may find it

useful to encourage pupils to create their own

rhythms to go with each note of the scales. Thus,

when studying ‘Scaling the heights’, ‘A goat got

stuck up a mountain’ might be an entertaining

rhythmical idea to employ!

•

Once the idea of the stave and its notes has been

fully introduced, ‘Note Reminders’ have been

strategically placed throughout the book for

reference. Try to encourage pupils

not

to write out

note names under the pieces.

•

Some notes have been introduced before we would

normally expect pupils to be able to identify them

on the stave. For example, ‘Scaly Fish’ incorporates

the high E on the fret twelve. Although hard to

read, once explained it is relatively easy to play,

sounds pleasing and encourages the pupil to

explore the fret board.

•

The thumb is introduced playing freestroke

(

tirando

) in Stage 9. Pupils could choose other

animal names for E, A and D. Refer back to the

earlier use of the D-string and explain that it is

played with fingers or thumb depending on

context.

•

Employing an ostinato is a very useful tool to

develop ensemble and listening skills. ‘Chinatown’

and ‘Hannibal’s Elephants’ are good examples of

these. With some imagination and development

they both work very well as performance pieces.

•

Three-string chords enable pupils to change chords

easily right from the start. In addition to the songs

we have included in Stage 15 ‘Thumbs, strums ‘n’

chords’ you can use these basic chords for other

earlier pieces in the book. We have found it helpful

to introduce full chord forms only when the pupil is

fluent with these basic forms.

•

In ‘I Spied a Spy’, the chords follow the same

rhythm as the melody.

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Some of the more advanced pieces rely heavily on

the teacher accompaniment part, such as ‘Sore

fingers’ and ‘Giuliani and Aunty’.

The backing tracks

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At first, the backing tracks

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may be too fast to play

along to. Use them for pointing, clapping, and

singing activities. When the pupil can play the

pieces confidently by themselves, or along to a

slower teacher’s accompaniment, encourage them

to play with the backing track.

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The length of introductions varies according to the

piece. Listen with the pupil and invite them to work

out where they should come in. With a bit of

support and practice, pupils can make good musical

judgements.

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Some of the pieces work very well as performance

pieces and require some familiarisation on the part

of the teacher before introducing them to the

pupil. Tracks such as ‘Spooky’ work really well as

performance pieces, especially in larger groups. It

combines singing, playing and creative sound

effects. The structure of ‘Spooky’ is as follows:

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Two-bar introduction.

•

Eight-bar melody with the vocal part played on

the electric guitar.

•

The pupil plays the written counter-melody.

•

In the following short gap you can name a

spooky sound and then create it on the guitar for

four bars.

•

After the third spooky sound the introduction is

played again, followed by the pupils’ counter-

melody.

•

Sing the words to finish.

•

‘The Finger Song’ track also requires some prior

familiarisation by the teacher. The format is as

follows:

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Two-bar introduction.

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Sing the words to the main melody on the

backing track.

•

Two-bar introduction again.

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The pupil plays their written part. Encourage

them to do hand actions as they sing the words

and count the rests out loud.

•

One-bar interlude to prepare for the last two

bars, which pupils always find challenging at first.

(This bar is not notated in the pupil’s book,

teachers should count it.)

•

The backing tracks for ‘Push and Shove’ (track 40),

‘Blue Who?’ (track 46) and ‘Zoo Blues’ (track 59)

have repeats for improvising over.

•

Some of the pieces rely on the teacher and pupil

listening to the backing track first. As with many

guitar pieces annotated with tablature, the third

section of ‘James Bond’ has no rhythm reference.

You will need to listen to the backing track to work

this out. (We feel it is much more rewarding to

learn partly by ear, as a fully notated version

becomes overly complicated.)

We hope you enjoy working through

Guitar Basics

!

Nick and James

Also available

Guitar Basics Sight-reading

is a step-by-step

approach that supports the notation learnt in the

student’s book and prepares players for Grade 1.

Guitar Basics Workouts

overlaps with the later

sections of

Guitar Basics

and develops the specific

skills needed for scales and arpeggios.

Guitar Basics Christmas

is the perfect festive

companion to

Guitar Basics

.

Guitar Basics Repertoire

follows on after

Guitar

Basics

, consolidating and introducing new topics,

taking players to grade 2 level.

It’s Never Too Late To Play Guitar

is perfect for

teenage and adult beginners.

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The backing tracks are available with the

Guitar Basics

pupil’s book.

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