Wattaboutguitar
Books in Johannesburg

Watt About Guitar teaches you how to read music and takes you from absolute beginner to guitar master. A complete, systematic syllabus, teaching everything a guitarist should know; incorporating practical guitar playing with music theory and written exercises.

A complete, systematic syllabus, teaching everything a guitarist should know; incorporating practical guitar playing with music theory and written exercises. Watt About Guitar teaches you how to read music and takes you from absolute beginner to guitar master. Exciting repertoire pieces to play on the guitar, ranging from easy to difficult, in a logical order. The books cover all musical styles; ranging from Classical to Spanish, Folk to Blues; Fingerstyle and Plectrum; Lead, Rhythm and Bass. Included are well known melodies, exercises, classical repertoire pieces and group work for lead, rhythm and bass guitar. Information that flows, with easy to follow instructions and explanations along with helpful hints and tips. A unique method developed by Rhona which she has tried, tested and perfected with her many pupils over the last 25 years. Beginning on the sixth string and moving to the first string; thus ensuring a correct hand position from the beginning. This method has produced excellent results with pupils, who have excelled as guitarists. Books come with CD's, chord charts, a chart of notes on the guitar with music notation and a chart of Italian Terms. There is also a complimentary set of Chord Books which deal with rhythm guitar and strumming, giving the words and chords in different keys. A complete, systematic syllabus, teaching everything a pianist should know; incorporating practical playing with music theory and written exercises. Included are piano pieces to play ranging from short exercises to repertoire pieces; written exercises, improvisation exercises and composition exercises, working with motives, composing balanced phrases, composing a melody above common chord progressions, melodic and rhythmic variation, chords and passing notes, L.H. Exciting repertoire pieces to play on the piano, ranging from easy to difficult, in a logical order. This method has produced excellent results with pupils, who have excelled as pianists. The course is designed to prepare the student for the Trinity Guildhall Examinations, with an emphasis on the improvisation section of the examination. It is also compatible with the FET School Curriculum, teaching the student how to take the textbook theory and apply it to make music on the piano. Rhona has been teaching the guitar and piano for over 30 years. (Licentiate of the Trinity College of London) in Having moved to South Africa, she then furthered her studies at UNISA and did her B.Mus. The book covers fingerstyle, classical, plectrum, lead, rhythm and bass guitar; from absolute Beginner to Intermediate. Included are well known melodies, arpeggio fingerstyle exercises, classical repertoire pieces and group work for lead, rhythm and bass guitar. Many of the pieces are Rhona Watt’s own compositions. Book 1 deals with single notes and melody lines first. Each chapter begins with easy pieces and works up to more difficult pieces, to get pupils to read complicated-looking music from the beginning. If there is only simple-looking music in Book 1, the tendency is that when pupils face more complicated music, they switch off and don’t even try because it looks hard (they get a mental block). If you teach someone to play a song, you have taught them something they will probably forget (whether it takes one year or ten years to forget).