Fridolin: Fridolin's guitar coach

Methodically selected songs - consistently small steps: Fridolin's Guitar Coach is a new volume of the popular guitar school that can be used both as a play and practice book and as a stand-alone textbook. The guitar coach accompanies anyone who wants to make rapid progress from the first note to two-part playing. Guitar playing from sheet music is learnt as if by chance, as the focus is not on etudes and exercises, but on over 100 songs, folk songs and pop compositions. Explanations of new notes and musical symbols are reduced to references in the musical text and are clearly presented in the appendix of the booklet.

Edition with CD: N 2801
CD single: N 2802

Part One - Songs to learn and play
- The repeat sign
- The g-string
- The b-string
- The d-string
- The note a on the g-string
- Alternate strokes and thumb stroke
- The note c' on the b string
- The 3/4 time signature
- The dotted half note
- The note d' on the b string
- The repeat signatures
- The upbeat
- The note e on the d string
- Eighth notes
- The A string
- The note e‘ on the e’ string
- The note c on the A string
- The note B on the A string
- The quarter rest
- The note f‘ on the e’ string
- The note g‘ on the e’ string
- The 1st and 2nd brackets
- The note G on the E string
- The low E-string
- The tie
- The dotted crotchet
- The note f on the d-string
- The note F on the E string
- The half rest
- The 6/8 time signature
- The quaver rest
- Displacement sign

Part two - Two-part playing
- Playing in two voices with the open string
- The simultaneous attack of melody and bass voice

Part three - Song accompaniment
- Strumming the chords - The downstroke
- G major fingering
- The A minor chord
- Very simple chord fingerings for C and G7
- Accompaniment with downstrokes and upstrokes

The basics - theoretical foundations

 
Songs and pieces:

Übung Nr. 1-10, Alouette, A Pocket Trip, Asturias, Atte katte nuwa, Auf einem Baum ein Kuckuck saß, Auf hoher See, Aura Lee, Backwater Blues, Bed on the Floor, Bin aus Kuttenberg, Brüderchen, komm, tanz mit mir, Break Dancer, Buffalo Boy, Can the Circle be Unbroken, Careless Love, Der Kirschenbaum, Der Kuckuck und der Esel, Der Winter ist vergangen, Die Schatten werden länger, Down by the Station, Ein Schneider fing ‘ne Maus, Eine Taube, Emmas Walzer, Es geht ein‘ dunkle Wolk herein, Es klappert die Mühle, Es klapperten die Klapperschlangen, Es lebt der Eisbär in Sibirien, Es war eine Mutter, Es war ein König in Thule, Eu e você, Fernseh-Song, Fing mir eine Mücke heut, Foi na loja do mestre André, Folies d‘Espagne, Good Morning, Going Down the Road Feeling Bad, Go Tell Aunt Rhody, Grün, grün, grün, Halleluja, I‘m a Bum, Halloween-Rap, He‘s Got the Whole World in His Hands, Hickory, dickory, dock, Ich lieb‘ die Blumen, Im Morgenrot erglüht der Osten, Kings of Orient, Kommt ihr Brüder, Kum ba yah, my Lord, La Follia, London Bridge, Meister Jakob, Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, Molly Malone, Morning Has Broken, Nightloop, No se va la paloma, Nun ruhen alle Wälder, Nun wollen wir singen, Oh my Darling, Clementine, Oh, Susanna, Plaisir d‘amour, Rockabella Bounce, Rock my Soul, Sambalelé, Shady Grove, Sitzt ein klein‘s Vöglein im Tannenbaum, Step by Step, Så lunka vi så småningom, Tanz, Tein minä pillin pajupuusta, Ten Little Indians, The Mulberry Bush, This Old Man, Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn, Turn the Singing Girls Around, Unten in Valtou, Vart modersmål er dejligt, Vem kan segla, Vidalita, Wan Tan Spezial, Was soll das bedeuten, Weißt du, wieviel Sternlein stehen?, What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?, Wir freuen uns, Auf tiefen Saiten: Auf der Mauer, auf der Lauer, Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass, Es geht ein’ dunkle Wolk herein, Fing mir eine Mücke heut, Folies d‘Espagne, Grün, grün, grün, Oh, Susanna, This Old Man, Wir freuen uns.