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Selecting Your Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Steel Strings and Nylon Strings

Acoustic Guitars and Electric Guitars . . . . . . . . 6

Caring for Your Guitar

Tuning Your Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Tuning with the Audio Tracks

Tuning without the Audio Tracks

How to Hold Your Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Strumming the Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Strumming with a Pick

Strumming with Your Fingers

Time to Strum!

Strumming Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Beats

Introducing the Quarter-Note Slash

The Staff and Treble Clef

Bar Lines, Measures, and Time Signatures

More Time to Strum

ACTIVITY: The Staff and Treble Clef . . . . . . . 11

ACTIVITY: Bar Lines and Measures . . . . . . . . 12

ACTIVITY: The 4

4 Time Signature . . . . . . . . . . 13

ACTIVITY: The Quarter-Note Slash . . . . . . . . 13

ACTIVITY: Counting Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Using Your Left Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Hand Position

Placing a Finger on a String

How to Read Chord Diagrams

The Three-String C Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

My First Chord

ACTIVITY: The Three-String C Chord . . . . . . . 17

The Quarter Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Three Blind Mice

ACTIVITY: The Quarter Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

The Three-String G7 Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

My Second Chord

ACTIVITY: The Three-String G7 Chord . . . . . . 21

Troubadour Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Skip to My Lou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

London Bridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

The Three-String G Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

My Third Chord

ACTIVITY: The Three-String G Chord . . . . . . 26

Three Chords in One Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Rain Comes Down

The Repeat Sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Merrily We Roll Along

ACTIVITY: The Repeat Sign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Love Somebody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Three-String D7 Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

My Fourth Chord

ACTIVITY: The Three-String D7 Chord . . . . . . 32

Using D7 with Other Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

When the Saints Go Marching In . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Yankee Doodle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

ACTIVITY: Write Your Own Song with

Three-String Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Getting Acquainted with Music Notation . . . . 37

Notes

The Staff

The Music Alphabet

Clefs

ACTIVITY: The Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Introducing the Quarter Note . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Clap and Count Out Loud

ACTIVITY: The Quarter Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Notes on the First String: Introducing E . . . . . 41

Elizabeth, the Elephant

ACTIVITY: The Note E (1st String) . . . . . . . . . 42

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The Note E with Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Note and Strum

Notes on the First String: Introducing F . . . . . 44

Up-Down-Up

ACTIVITY: The Note F (1st String) . . . . . . . . . 45

The Notes E and F with Chords . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Notes on the First String: Introducing G . . . . 47

The Mountain Climber

ACTIVITY: The Note G (1st String) . . . . . . . . 48

The Notes E, F, and G with Chords . . . . . . . . 49

Brave in the Cave

Single Notes, Then Chord! Chord! Chord! . . . . . . 50

Pumpkin Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Notes on the Second String: Introducing B . . 52

Two Open Strings

Two-String Melody

ACTIVITY: The Note B (2nd String) . . . . . . . . 53

Jumping Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Notes on the Second String: Introducing C . . 55

Ping Pong Song

Soccer Game

ACTIVITY: The Note C (2nd String) . . . . . . . . 56

The Half Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

When I Feel Best

ACTIVITY: The Half Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Notes on the Second String: Introducing D . . 59

A-Choo!

ACTIVITY: The Note D (2nd String) . . . . . . . . 60

ACTIVITY: The Notes B, C, D, E, F, and G . . . 61

ACTIVITY: Notes on the Strings:

B, C, D, E, F, and G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

The Half Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Ode to Joy

ACTIVITY: The Half Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Jingle Bells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Mary Had a Little Lamb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Notes on the Third String: Introducing G . . . . 67

Three Open Strings

Little Steps and Big Leaps

ACTIVITY: The Note G (3rd String) . . . . . . . . 68

Alouette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Notes on the Third String: Introducing A . . . . 70

Introducing the Whole Note

A Is Easy!

Taking a Walk

ACTIVITY: The Note A (3rd String) . . . . . . . . 71

Aura Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

She’ll Be Comin’ ’Round the Mountain . . . . . . . . . 73

Review: Music Matching Games . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Notes on the Fourth String: Introducing D . . 75

Four Open Strings

I Choose Guitar!

ACTIVITY: The Note D (4th String) . . . . . . . . 76

Introducing the Half-Note Slash . . . . . . . . . . . 77

The Lone Star Trail

ACTIVITY: The Half-Note Slash . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Introducing Four-String Chords . . . . . . . . . . . 79

The Four-String G Chord

The Four-String G7 Chord

New Chord Exercise

ACTIVITY: The Four-String

G and G7 Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Rock Me Mozart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Notes on the Fourth String: Introducing E . . . 82

On My Horse

ACTIVITY: The Note E (4th String) . . . . . . . . 83

Old MacDonald Had a Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

The Four-String C Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Introducing Common Time

C Blues

ACTIVITY: The Four-String C Chord . . . . . . . . 85

ACTIVITY: Common Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

ACTIVITY: Write Your Own Song

with Four-String Chords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86


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Notes on the Fourth String: Introducing F . . . 87

Baseball

ACTIVITY: The Note F (4th String) . . . . . . . . . 88

ACTIVITY: Notes on the Strings: D, E, F, G, and A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Reuben, Reuben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Dotted Half Notes & 3

4 Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Three Is for Me!

ACTIVITY: The Dotted Half Note

ACTIVITY: The 3

4 Time Signature . . . . . . . . . . 92

Playing Two Notes at Once . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Daisy Bell

Notes on the Fifth String: Introducing A . . . . 94

Five Open Strings

Trash Truck

ACTIVITY: The Note A (5th String) . . . . . . . . 95

Scarborough Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Notes on the Fifth String: Introducing B . . . . 97

Cleaning Up

ACTIVITY: The Note B (5th String) . . . . . . . . 98

My Pet Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Notes on the Fifth String: Introducing C . . . 100

Barking Song

ACTIVITY: The Note C (5th String) . . . . . . . 101

Volga Boatmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Peter Gray

The Dotted-Half-Note Slash . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Liebesträum

ACTIVITY: The Dotted-Half-Note Slash . . . . 104

A Minor Boogie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Notes on the Sixth String: Introducing E . . . 106

Six Open Strings

Giraffe Under the Staff

ACTIVITY: The Note E (6th String) . . . . . . . 107

Two E’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Notes on the Sixth String: Introducing F . . . 109

Introducing the Fermata

Dad’s Classic Car

ACTIVITY: The Note F (6th String) . . . . . . . . 110

ACTIVITY: The Fermata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Sakura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Notes on the Sixth String: Introducing G . . . 113

All the Notes I Know So Far

Do-Re-Mi Is for Me!

ACTIVITY: The Note G (6th String) . . . . . . . 114

Spy Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

The Farmer in the Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

B.I.N.G.O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Notes on the First String: Introducing High A . . 118

Back to Russia

ACTIVITY: The Note High A (1st String) . . . 119

ACTIVITY: Notes on the Strings: E, F, G, A, B, C, and High A . . . . . . . . . . 120

The Riddle Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Pickup Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

A-Tisket, A-Tasket

ACTIVITY: Counting Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

The Yellow Rose of Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Tempo Signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Three-Tempo Rock

1812 Overture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Reading Three-String Chords as Notes . . . . . 127

Theme from Carmen

ACTIVITY: Three-String Chords as Notes . . . 128

Reading Four-String Chords as Notes . . . . . . 129

Rockin’ with Chords

ACTIVITY: Four-String Chords as Notes . . . . 130

Bass-Chord Accompaniment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Can-Can (duet) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Theme from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Introducing the Whole Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

The Desert Song (duet)

Echo Rock

ACTIVITY: Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

ACTIVITY: The Whole Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Ties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Shenandoah

ACTIVITY: Ties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

When the Saints Go Marching In (duet) . . . . . . 138

Review: Music Matching Games . . . . . . . . . . 139

Fingerboard Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Chord Encyclopedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140


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C

Û Û Û Œ

G7

Û Û Û Œ ŒÛ Û Û

C

Count: 1 2 3 (4)

(rest) (rest) (rest) (rest)

1 2 3 (4) 1 2 3 (4) 1 2 3 (4)Play one one more just like a trou ba- - dour.chord then

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Troubadour Song

Remember to stop the sound by lightly touching the strings with the side of your hand on each Œ . Wait one beat .

*A troubadour was a musician who traveled around singing and playing .

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& 44 Œ Û Û ÛG

Oh when the

Û Û Û Ûsaints

Û Û Û Ûgo march - ing

Û Û Û Ûin,

& Û Û Û ÛOh when the

Û Û Û Ûsaints go

Û Û Û Ûmarch - ing

Û Û Û ÛD7

in,

& Û Û Û ÛOh how I

Û Û Û ÛG

want to

Û Û Û ÛG7

be in that

Û Û Û ÛC

num - ber

& Û Û Û ÛWhen the

Û Û Û ÛG

saints go

Û Û Û ÛD7

march - ing

Û Û Û ŒG

in.

(rest)

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& 44 œo œ œ œFrom the bot - tom

œ1 œ œ œto the top, the

œ3 œ œ œfear - less climb - er

œ1 œ œ Œdoes not stop.

& œ1 œ œ œWith his pick and

œ3 œ œ œtuned gui - tar, the

œ1 œ œ3 œpre - pared climb - er

œo œ3 œo Œwill go far.

G Warm-Up

& 4

4 ..

œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ

& œ Third finger

1st fret

2nd fret

3rd fret

G

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The Mountain Climber

A note on the space above the staff is called G . Use finger 3 to press the 1st string at the 3rd fret . Use a downpick motion to play only the 1st string .

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