The Kristen R. Bromley Guitar Method series is based on the author’s extensive experience as a professional guitarist and noted educator. In 20 plus years, Dr. Kristen Bromley has instructed hundreds of university students in beginning, intermediate, and advanced level courses, along with child, adolescent, and adult learners. In these books, Dr. Bromley dives into the various skills needed to play the guitar, while helping students learn to play music on the guitar. Most of the books include online access to hours of in-depth video lessons. See the following details for the available volumes:
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In this volume, Dr. Bromley helps beginning and intermediate level guitarists develop their ability to play chords, read chord symbols, understand chord theory, learn strumming and fingerpicking techniques for a variety of musical styles, and master musical skillsets through playing songs and exercises. If you want to learn to play or get better at playing chords on the guitar, this is the book for you!
This book includes:
· Online access to over 35 hours of in-depth video lessons by Dr. Bromley specifically covering the materials in this book.
· 30 chapters of step-by-step instruction of all the main chords and playing styles commonly used by guitarists.
· Over 400 songs and exercises, which can all be played right along with Dr. Bromley through the video lessons.
· Theory explanations and numerous chord voicings for basic first position chords and movable forms like barre chords and power chords, plus sixth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, augmented, diminished, suspended, slash, and altered chords.
· Multiple strumming and fingerpicking approaches for playing chords.
· Alternate tunings and playing with a capo.
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In this volume, Dr. Bromley helps guitarists learn how to play individual notes on the guitar while reading music written in standard music notation. The book begins as if a student has no prior knowledge of reading music notation or the location of notes on the guitar, and proceeds through playing notated music in any key in the open or first position on the guitar. If you want to learn how to or get better at reading notes with the guitar, this is the book for you!
This book includes:
· Online access to nearly 14 hours of in-depth video lessons by Dr. Bromley that specifically go over the materials in this book.
· 25 chapters of step-by-step instruction that cover how to read notes on the guitar.
· Over 360 songs and exercises, which can all be played right along with Dr. Bromley through the video lessons.
· Theory explanations of notes, keys, chromatic pitches, and major and minor scales.
· Right- and left-hand technique development, including alternate picking approaches.
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The Kristen R. Bromley Guitar Method series is based on the author’s extensive experience as a professional guitarist and noted educator. In 20 plus years, Dr. Kristen Bromley has instructed hundreds of university students in beginning, intermediate, and advanced level courses, along with child, adolescent, and adult learners. In this volume, Dr. Bromley helps guitarists learn the pitches of the entire fretboard and how to read notes in any key along the neck. The book builds on Note Reading Books 1 and 2, which takes students through playing notated music in the open or first position on the guitar. If you want to master the neck and learn how to (or get better at) reading notes along the entire fretboard, this is the book for you!
This book includes:
· Online access to nearly 20 hours of in-depth video lessons with Dr. Bromley that specifically go over the materials in this book.
· 25 chapters of step-by-step instruction that cover how to read notes along the entire fretboard of the guitar.
· Over 300 songs and exercises, which can all be played right along with Dr. Bromley through online video lessons.
· Theory explanations of notes, keys, chromatic pitches, and major and minor scales.
· Right- and left-hand technique development.
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In this volume, Dr. Bromley helps guitarists learn how to play music on the guitar through reading tablature, a type of written notation specifically for the guitar. The book begins as if a student has no prior knowledge of reading tablature or playing the guitar and proceeds through playing challenging pieces. If you want to learn how to or get better at reading tablature with the guitar, this is the book for you!
This book includes:
· Online access to nearly 16 hours of in-depth video lessons by Dr. Bromley that specifically go over the materials in this book.
· A progressive study of reading tablature and developing guitar technique, especially for playing melodic lines.
· 200 songs and exercises that gradually progress from easy to very challenging, and which can all be played right along with Dr. Bromley through the video lessons.
· Explanations of tablature, musical notation devices, rhythm, measures, time signatures, and so on.
· Right- and left-hand technique development.
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The Technique and Theory book complements the materials taught in the other books within the method series, by thoroughly explaining how music and the guitar work theoretically; and by providing technical exercises that will help a student master the instrument, developing skills needed to play the music they desire. This book provides a scale system approach to the instrument; many scale exercises; instructions on improvising and playing lead lines; strumming, picking, and fingerpicking patterns and approaches; coordination and articulations exercises; chord progressions; ear training; rhythm practice; and much more. Studying the exercises in this book will make any musician better! There are hundreds of exercises in this book. ISBN: 978-0-9840476-5-9
Note – The Theory and Technique book does not yet include access to online video lessons. A new edition of this book with this feature is in process, and will hopefully be available by Summer 2022.