Notes about pages 18-21 from the Mel Bay Grade 1 book.
A free lesson from Marco Frucht:
Not to be too much the complainer; but all four songs in the Mel Bay book work you out on the A string’s ‘C’ note but not the ‘B’ and ‘A’ notes even once.
I’m afraid this might be an oversight that has gone unnoticed by teachers all over the world for something like 65 years now!
I’ve written an Etude in Am that includes all three of those notes as well as everything on the four higher notes that a student has already mastered and worked out on inside of the Mel Bay book, so the learner won’t develop too many bad habits before moving on to the 6th string.
I’ll put up an mp3 of how I play it, for any who wish to work out with it.
[Â http://www.reverbnation.com/open_graph/song/15130863 ]
I’ve made Standard Notation of the first two passages so far, and as soon as I’ve done two or three more, I’ll put up a youtube with the same audio and a page of notation to refer to so you can play along fairly easily.
UPDATE: Â Here’s the Youtube -Â http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75SwKORBauE
I might propose that this be added to any next edition of this book that has dominated the guitar learning world since 1947.
Sincerely,
Marco Capelli Frucht