Classical Guitar Lesson #4: Free Stroke

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Book 1: "The First 30 Days of Instruction". $5.95 + $1.75 shipping and handling. The student will learn eight notes in the open position on the 3rd, 4th and 2nd stings, and a handful of simple rhythms -- all pieces and exercises are played with P stoke only.

Book 2: "The Next 30 Days of Instruction". $5.95 + $1.75 shipping and handling. Rests, ties, the division of the beat and eight new notes -- E, F, G on the 1st string and the open 5th and 6th strings - are covered in this volume. The rest stroke with 'i' and 'm' is introduced . A few solos are included.

Book 3: " Bass Notes". $5.95 + $1.75 shipping and handling. Since reading ledger line notes is difficult for beginning students , I devote a whole volume to learning B and C on the 5th string and F and G on the 6th string. Many solos are included.

Book 4: "Chords". $5.95 + $1.75 shipping and handling. Reading two and three-note chords and the free stroke are covered in this volume. Many playing styles are covered including ragtime, tango, beguine and the Mexican waltz. An index of first position chords for strumming appears at the end.

Book 5: "Arpeggios". $9.95 + $1.75 shipping and handling.
Contains pieces based on the most important arpeggio patterns including five tremolo pieces. There is also a complete section on playing ragtime guitar along with first position versions of Leyenda, Recuerdos De La Alhambra, Malaguena and a tremolo version of Romanza. This books brings you right up to the intermediate level.

Supplementary Material which includes CD: "Mel Bay's Easiest Classical Guitar Solos Book" $14.95 + $1.75 shipping and handling.

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Video description: I demonstrate free stroke on the guitar. To see all ten lessons, do a search for: classical guitar lessons murdick. To hear Kent Murdick play, go to http://members.aol.com/lutemann/NO.mp3

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University of South Alabama

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[joecold219]

Sir i have a problem with my left thumb ,,its like i cannot give proper leverage to the fingers while i move my fingers along the fret board...its like i cannot arch my thumb it remains straight at the back of the guitar neck.....And yea your a good teacher must say...

[Lutemann]

I'd have to see it. The left hand is quite forgiving, the right is not.

[marbeloski]

tines una mala tecnica

[Lutemann]

the critical thing is that the finger must have room to swing, yu cannot choke the stroke.

[MohamedTheWise]

plz can u tell me which part of the finger tip of the right hand do we play? plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz cause i am pretty confused

[Lutemann]

I hit perpendicular to the string with 'a' finger and slightly to the left side of 'i' and 'm'. There is some leeway here.

[trescanovich]

good stuff. it's stupidly hard to find correct, clear and useful basic guitar concepts. expositions as good as these shouldn't be rare, but they are, so well done Kent, and to anyone watching, yes this is how it should be done and with careful attention and practice getting good at classical guitar is now easier than ever.

[Guitarwizard]

It seems so crazy to hear you say you've beat up your right hand. In the vids, it looks so perfect. Im so sorry to hear that. Still, i think you're very skilled, and i get so much out of your videos. Thank you for taking the time. They really help so many people.

[untoter3]

thankyou thats helped me to play the tremolo!

[WillCerf]

Sir,how long the nails I needed?

[chaungocminh]

@Lutemann Thanks very much!

[TheDougdougist]

i know i know i´m a sheet

[TheMexicanstick]

thank you thats was very easy to understand.