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| View Larger Image | Classical Guitar 2000: Technique for the Contemporary Serious Player
by Charles Duncan
| | List Price: | $19.95 | | Price: | $13.57 | | You Save: | $6.38 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 193815 | | Studio: | Alfred Publishing Company | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 94 | | Publication Date: | December 31, 1969 | | Publisher: | Alfred Publishing Company |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 4 reviews)
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For the Serious Guitar Student/Player 
I can't really add much more to say about this very useful book - the above reviewers did an excellent job of describing it's content. I will, however, type up a list of what's in the content page since you can't "see inside" this book:
Preface
Introduction: First Principles
Section I: Scales
Comprehensive Diatonic Scales
Two-Octave Scale Forms
Rhythmic Formulas for Practice
Two-Octave Diatonic Scales in all Keys
Three-Octave Scales
Developing Velocity in Scales
Scales Beyond the Diatonic
Section II: Chords and Arpeggios
Systemic Cadences
Recurring Chord Forms
Cadences in the Principal Keys
Arpeggios
Basic Arpeggios in Increasing Complexity
Arpeggios with Thumb and Fingers Played Together
Practicing Arpeggios with the Carcassi Etude 2
Two Etudes by Dionisio Aguado
Section III: Left-Hand Development
Slurs
Basic Ascending Slur Exercises
Descending Slurs
Ascending and Descending Slurs Combined
Triplet Slurs
Slurs Across the Fingerboard
Chromatic Octaves and Tenths
Bar-Chord Strength Development
Section IV: Exercises in Technical and Interpretive Control
The Left Hand
The Right Hand
Interpretive Control
And there you have the entire contents page. Pretty impressive I think. If you practice these exercises and drills that Mr. Duncan has given, you will improve in many areas. I ask my more advanced students to purchase this book and we begin practicing two octave scales - minor and major.
There is nothing about this book so far, that I can find anything negative to comment on. It's well worth the money.
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UPDATE: OCTOBER 23, 2008
I see that one can now "SEARCH INSIDE!" this book. That's good. It's a great book and I'm always finding new things to study out of it!
July 23, 2008 | |
From competence to perfection: no easy way
Classical Guitar 2000 is what is says:a companion to Charles Duncan's Art of Classical Guitar Playing (Art of Series).
Tons of guitar instruction books are being published. Just type in words like "mastering the guitar" and within soon you may get lost musing what to choose.
This book, written in 1993, may be the one to look for.
It is not written for the beginner. You'll not find the word "easy" in the book.
The serious student (Duncan's words and, I may add, the serious guitar player) will be guided from basic guitar technique to practical examples taken from the classical guitar literature.
It offers a well organized compendium of excercises, tools which provide guidance to "the process of learning and performing music". Again Duncan's words however to be completed by the tag "technical".
Do we learn "music" from books? I don't think so. The book provides the tools to reach the technical levels to perform but it is not by accident that Duncan uses the word "student" several times in his introduction.
Set a goal, get organized, be inspired and find a source to fire the inspiration and enthousiasme to make music. The book may help you to reach that goal.
June 22, 2008 | |
My Review
This book contains the quintessential essay on nail-filing in the literature for classical guitar. I require it for all serious classcial guitar students studying with me. It's discussion of tension as falling into the categories of functional and dysfunctional tension is a very important discussion that helps the developing student realize how the hand function properly. This book is on my "Basic Library" list for all students, classical and otherwise.
Thomas O. Olson, MM, Performer and teacher of Classical guitar, graduate, the Cleveland Institue of Music.
July 15, 2006 | |
A great resource
This book is terrific for any serious student who wants a complete book of exercises for left and right hand development. What I like most about this book is the presentation of the scales. He gives you 33 pages of scales: melodic minor, major scales, chromatic, diminished, etc. in one, two, and three octave ranges. He shows you different approaches to the same scale -- two string version and three string version; 5 string versions and six string versions, etc.There are good arpeggio exercises, cadence exercise,slur exercises, chord change exercises, chromatic octave and tenths exercises, and everything else you could think of. The explanations are clear. The print is big (nice layout to the book) and easy to read. I first read Duncan's book, The Art of Classical Guitar Playing, which is a companion to his Classical Guitar 2000 book. That's also very good and unique. Classical Guitar 2000 is the practical application of what he discusses in his Art of Classical Guitar book. I also have Pumping Nylon by Scott Tennant, and although both books are outstanding and I use both on a frequent basis, I prefer this book.
July 18, 2004 | |
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