Table of Contents from : 'Guitar Playing and how it works' © Peter Inglis 2003

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Title Page Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction - 2 - 3

Chapter 1 - Your Body is the instrument
What is the Alexander Technique?
Connect with your spine
Sitting with the Guitar

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Chapter 2 - Right Hand - your voice
Tuning
Natural Harmonics.
Strumming
Thumb in a Circle
Thumb and Gravity
Rippling and Stroking
Become aware of your joints
Rocking the forearm
Fingers of the right hand
A Natural hand position
One Impulse - 4 notes
Adding energy to the strum - Rasgueado
Rasgueado and Stroking together
Continous rasgueado
Combining rippling and rotation
Adding energy to the melody - Tremelo
Practicing the tremelo
Applying tremelo to a melody - more
Applying the tremelo fingering to scales
Timbre
Volume
Dynamics
Articulation
Right hand - The Basics
Fingers all together
Different colours - the Plectrum

Chapter 3 - Rhythm is Movement
Walking
Sway
Skip
Run
Marching

Chapter 4 - Left Hand - tight rope walker
Expand into one note
Left hand on one string
Expanding body and weightless arms
Expansion and embrace
One Coordinated Gesture
Chords with Simple Presentations
Chords with Mixed Presentations

Chapter 5 - Scales on One String
Scales on one string
Symbols explained
On the G string - Twinkle twinkle
Temporary Displacement
Left hand Fingering explained
Major Scales on 1 String
Harmonic Minor Scales on 1 String
Melodic Minor Scales on 1 String

Chapter 6 - Tonic and Dominant - Major keys
C Major - the whole sequence
How to use the Material
Your Brain
A Simple Chord
Arpeggio within the Octave
Two Octave Arpeggio
Scale to the Ninth
Scale in 2 Octaves
Dominant Seventh Arpeggio
The sequence in all major keys

Chapter 7 - Tonic and Dominant - minor keys
The same formula including the
Harmonic minor and Melodic minor scales

Chapter 8 - Chromatic and Diminished
Chromatic scales and the Diminished 7th chord
A Diminished melody

Chapter 9 - Putting it all together
"Concentration"
Recipe for fine playing
Finger Independence
Holism and reductionism
Mental States
Making up your own practice material
Baroque to Rock - Vivaldi
Bach rocks too!
Some parting thoughts

Credits
The dancers :
Bruce Henries
Lisa-Jane Holt
Jane Scali's Performing Arts Centre
Bibliography
The Author

Reviews
review by Martin Finnegan for the "Australian Alexander Teachers Journal"
Reza Ganjavi's review of "Guitar Playing and How it Works"
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"Guitar Playing and how it works"

... was superceded in December 2007 by...

"Guitar Playing and How it Works - 3rd Edn."