Right-Hand Studies for Five Fingers by Charles Postlewate

The product of a 14 year research project, this book contains over 350 studies to thoroughly train the right hand of classical guitarists in the use of all five fingers - adding the little finger to the present four finger technique. These studies build a five-finger technique in the playing of chords, arpeggios, tremolos and harmonics, beginning with the thumb and one-finger combinations and increasing in complexity to the thumb and four fingers. The studies are played over easy, yet interesting, left hand progressions up and down the fingerboard. Postlewate demonstrates how to develop your own right hand studies by including examples from standard classical guitar repertoire pieces by Fernando Sor, Federico Moreno Torroba and Heitor Villa-Lobos at the end of the book. This book is a companion to MB 98711 - HOMAGE TO VILLA-LOBOS and other compositions (music composed, transcribed, arranged and edited by Charles Postlewate for the guitar, using five fingers of the right hand) and its accompanying 60-minute CD, HOMAGE TO VILLA-LOBOS (MB 98711CD).

Contents:

INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
[Introduccion y reconocimientos]

I. CHORD AND ARPEGGIO STUDIES
[Estudios de acordes y arpegios]

A. Studies for The Thumb and One Finger
[Estudios para el pulgar y un dedo

B. Studies for The Thumb and Two Fingers
[Estudios para el pulgar y dos dedos]

C. Studies for the Thumb and Three Fingers
[Estudios para el pulgar y tres dedos]

D. Studies for the Thumb and Four Fingers
[Estudios para el pulgar y cuatro dedos]

II. TREMOLO STUDIES
[Estudios de tremolos]

III. RIGHT HAND HARMONICS STUDIES
[Estudios de armonicos para la mano derecha]

IV. DEVELOPING THE MELODY FINGERS
[El desarrollo de la funcion melodica de los dedos]

V. PREPARATION STUDIES FOR SPECIFIC PIECES
[Estudios preparativos para piezas especificas]

A. Fernando Sor ~ Study in E Minor: Op. 6, No. 11 (Segovia #17)
B. Fernando Sor ~ Study in A Major: Op. 31, No. 19 (Segovia #10)
C. Federico Moreno Torroba ~ Sonatina in A Major: III. Allegro
D. Heitor Villa-Lobos ~ Choros #1
E. Heitor Villa-Lobos ~ Prelude #2
VI. CHROMATIC VARIATIONS OF PROGRESSIONS
[Progresiones en variacion cromatica]

Format: Book
Series: Non-Series
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published: 9/26/2001