Self-Teaching Guide to Playing the Six-String Guitar

A popular textbook for anyone who wants to learn to play the six-string guitar. The author has created a new repertoire application, including both well-known original works and a number of arrangements of popular melodies.
For lovers of home music-making.

CONTENTS:
Chapter I. The Notation System

• Sound: pitch, duration, volume, timbre
• Musical system
• Scale. Octave
• Note. Staff
• Treble clef
• Range
• Octave transfer sign
• Note durations
• Meter. Rhythm. Measure. Time signature. Rests

Chapter II. Hand Positioning 

• Guitar structure. Tuning
• Sitting position. Right hand
• Exercises on open strings
• Sound production techniques
• Left hand

Chapter III. Learning the First Positions

• Diatonic scale
• Fingering. Ligature. Dot. Fermata
• Special types of rhythmic division
• Accidentals
• Enharmonic sounds
• Signs for shortening musical notation
• Intervals. Tempo
• Dynamic shades
• Chords. Exercises in chords
• Scale. Mode. Natural major. Key
• Sharp and flat major keys
• Minor. Natural minor
• Parallel keys
• Sharp and flat minor keys
• Harmonic minor. Melodic minor
• Scales and pieces in the most commonly used guitar keys
• Pickup
• Chromatic scale. Positions

Chapter IV. Guitar Playing Techniques

• Barre. Arpeggio. Legato. Staccato
• Finger strike. Harmonics (natural)
• Melismas. Arpeggiato. Glissando
• Position changes
• Tremolo. Vibrato
• Exercises for the left hand
• Scales
• Artificial harmonics. Complex harmonics
• Chord technique of the left hand
• Rasgueado. Pizzicato. Tambourine
• Playing "at the bridge" and "at the neck"
• Guitar in an ensemble

Conclusion

Repertoire Application

• Russian folk song. In the garden or in the vegetable garden
• Russian folk song. A birch tree stood in the field
• M. Carcassi. Etude
• D. Aguado. Theme and variation
• M. Carcassi. Allegretto
• F. Sor. Andante
• M. Giuliani. Allegro
• M. Giuliani. Etude. Op. 100 No. 1
• F. Carulli. Andantino
• M. Carcassi. Prelude
• F. Carulli. Etude
• E. Schwartz-Reiflingen. Prelude
• Arrangement by J. Sarasate. French folk song
• M. Carcassi. Waltz
• Russian folk song. Here comes the troika
• P. Agafoshin. Etude
• M. Carcassi. Andantino
• M. Carcassi. Prelude
• E. Larichev. Etude
• Russian folk song. The sea has spread wide
• J. Sarasate. Children's song
• Russian folk song. As across the blue sea
• Russian folk song. The moon is shining
• M. Carcassi. Allegretto
• A. Eshpai. Dance
• M. Carcassi. Minuet
• M. Carcassi. Etude. Op. 60 No. 3
• E. Larichev. Prelude
• M. Giuliani. Etude. Op. 100 No. 13
• M. Carcassi. Etude. Op. 60 No. 7
• M. Giuliani. Etude. Op. 100 No. 11
• D. Aguado. Andante
• G. Graupner. Bourrée
• F. Sor. Minuet. Op. 11 No. 5
• E. Larichev. Variations on the theme of the Russian folk song "Steppe all around"
• E. Larichev. Sad drop. Etude
• F. Tárrega. Tear. Prelude
• F. Tárrega. Adelita. Mazurka
• F. Tárrega. Arabic caprice. Serenade
• J.S. Bach. Andante
• M. Vysotsky. Variations on the theme of the Russian folk song "Oh, what are you, my dear"
• E. Villa-Lobos. Choro. Brazilian dance
• M.L. Anido. Song from Yucatan
• V. Enrique. Legend of the Amazon
• X. Cardoso. Venezuelan waltz
• N. Liszt. I remember the lovely sound of the waltz
• S. Baynes. Waltz
• A. Trilling. Over the bay. Tango
• Arrangement by A. Fleury. Argentine melody
• E. Larichev. Waltz