Classical Guitar for Dummies

Read, listen, and watch your way to classical gas!

Strumming songs around the campfire is great. But when you really want to show off your guitar skills, you bust out your version of Cavatina and watch jaws drop. Of course, you'll need some classical guitar skills to pull off this feat. This book is your starting point of adapting your guitar techniques (or what you learned playing other instruments) to the melodic, finger-picking classical guitar style. Add in the sample audio and video teaching files you'll find on dummies.com and you have a one-stop resource for adding classical guitar to your playing repertoire.

Inside...

• Adapting your guitar playing posture
• Deciphering music notation
• Rolling out chord arpeggios
• Coloring your tone with vibrato
• Exploring scales down the guitar neck
• Getting familiar with classical guitar classics
• Tips for purchasing your first classical guitar