{"id":981,"date":"2012-11-11T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T15:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=981"},"modified":"2014-04-14T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T23:12:39","slug":"free-guitar-lesson-supplemental-notes-about-the-a-string-pages-of-the-mel-bay-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"FREE GUITAR LESSON: Supplemental Notes About The A-String Pages Of The Mel Bay Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Notes about pages 18-21 from the Mel Bay Grade 1 book.<\/span><\/p>\n

A free lesson from Marco Frucht:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

I’m afraid this might be an oversight that has gone unnoticed by teachers all over the world for something like 65 years now!<\/p>\n


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I’ve written an Etude in Am that includes all three of those notes as well as\u00c2\u00a0everything on the four higher notes that a student has already mastered and worked out\u00c2\u00a0on inside of the Mel Bay book, so the learner won’t develop too many bad habits before\u00c2\u00a0moving on to the 6th string.<\/p>\n

I’ll put up an mp3 of how I play it, for any who wish to work out with it.<\/p>\n

[\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/open_graph\/song\/15130863<\/a> ]<\/p>\n

I’ve made\u00c2\u00a0Standard Notation of the first two passages so far, and as soon as I’ve done two or\u00c2\u00a0three more, I’ll put up a youtube with the same audio and a page of notation to refer\u00c2\u00a0to so you can play along fairly easily.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: \u00c2\u00a0Here’s the Youtube -\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=75SwKORBauE<\/a><\/p>\n

I might propose that this be added to any next edition of this book that has dominated\u00c2\u00a0the guitar learning world since 1947.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Marco Capelli Frucht<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.frucht.org<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.marcosongs.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-music-and-stuff","category-pop-culture","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muffinbottoms.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}