Fundamentals of Guitar: A Workbook for Beginning, Intermediate or Advanced Students

Front Matter:

Preface

Introduction

PART I - Pitch

The String:
 Harmonics
 Stopped Pitches
 Just Intonation and Equal Temperament
 Tuning

Monads:
 All locations of any single pitch
 The Pentatonic
 The Diatonic
 Diatonic Patterns
 Modulation
 Other Scales
 Symmetry

Dyads:
 All locations of any two pitches
 Intervals

Triads:
 Constructing three-note structures
 All locations of any three pitches
 Voice leading
 Triadic space

Tetrads and beyond:
 Constructing four-note structures
 All tetrads of the four Heptatonic scales
 Dominant progressions
 All- Interval Tetrads
 All remaining pitch structures
 
PART II - Rhythm

One String, One Pitch:
 Time
 Symmetrical Picking
 Diatonic scales with Symmetrical Picking
 Pick Control
 Dynamics
 Endurance
 Rhythmic Pentatonics and Diatonics
 Reduction

One String, Multiple Pitches:
 Diatonic scales with Legato phrasing
 Diatonic ornaments
 Chromatic ornaments
 Slides

Multiple Strings:
 Polypulse
 Creating rhythms
 Rhythmic Dyads, Triads, and Tetrads
 Polyrhythm
 Rhythmic tiling
 Infinite growth



Back Matter:
 Glossary
 Short subjects
 Sources
 Acknowledgments
 About the author