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Book of Six Strings: The Zen Way toPlay Guitar (2nd Edition)

Book of Six Strings: The Zen Way toPlay Guitar (2nd Edition)

SKU: 00-41439

$21.99 Hard Copy
Pop/Guitar/Folk Pop Guitar/Bass Music

Philip Toshio Sudo, founder of the Zen Guitar movement, and guitarist and educator Tobias Hurwitz present this follow-up to the best-selling book Zen Guitar. Inside you will find musical examples that will help you bring the Zen philosophy to life on your guitar. Learn how these ancient ideas can help you become more "in the moment" in your musical approach. The Book of Six Strings will help you break out of a creative rut and take your playing to the next level. This book's centerpiece is "One Sound One Song," composed by Philip Toshio Sudo as a musical launching pad for Zen Guitar exploration. You will also find inspiring quotes, philosophical concepts, and historical facts mixed in with the musical examples. If you are looking to be inspired and to deepen your spirituality and musical understanding, this book is for you.

SKU
00-41439
Composer
Sudo and Hurwitz
Voicing
Guitar
Manufacturer
ALFRED
Barcode
038081463117

  • About the Authors

  • Preface

  • How This Book Came About

  • PART ONE

  • Silence: The Book of No Strings

  • The Story of Zen

  • What Is Zen Guitar?

  • Air Guitar

  • Origins

  • Your First Guitar

  • PART TWO

  • Sound: The Six-Fold Path of Zen Guitar

  • Welcome to the Dojo

  • First String--Soul

  • The Sound of Effort

  • The Imagination Etude

  • Freedom

  • Second String--Sound

  • The Echo Etude

  • Rhythm

  • Chordal Connotations

  • Intervals

  • Third String--Skill

  • Visual Koan: Skill

  • Practicing the Middle Way

  • Effortlessness

  • Two-Part Invention in F Major

  • The Speed of the Snake

  • Fourth String--Song

  • Matrix Koan

  • Finding Your Song

  • Truth

  • Song Within Song, Song Without Words

  • Raise the Spirit

  • The Yin-Yang Etude

  • One String

  • Fifth String--Path

  • The Three Stages

  • The Flowing Water Etude

  • On Learning

  • On Teaching

  • The Moment

  • Sixth String--Thought

  • The Way of the Dragon

  • Visual Koan: Transformations

  • The Cycle of 5ths/Cycle of 4ths

  • The Zazen Etude

  • True Names

  • Learning the Fretboard

  • PART THREE

  • Zen Guitar: One Sound One Song

  • One Sound One Song

  • Zen Guitar Tuning: D-A-D-A-A-D

  • The Twelve Themes

  • Stone Throwing Theme

  • Floating Tension Theme

  • Pushing Rock Theme

  • Dream Theme

  • Eternal Fire Theme

  • Rolling Ball Theme I

  • Rolling Ball Theme II

  • Bird Flying Theme I

  • Bird Flying Theme II

  • Cloud and Water Theme

  • Hand Skimming Water Theme

  • Kite in the Wind Theme I

  • Kite in the Wind Theme II

  • Yin-Yang Theme

  • Sudden Thunder Theme

  • PART FOUR

  • Coda

  • The Drone

  • Meditation and the Drone

  • The Zen Guitar Movement by Salvatore Principato

  • PART FIVE

  • Appendix

  • Notation Basics

  • More Notation

  • Chords

  • Scale Forms

  • Five Major Scale Forms

  • Five Major Pentatonic Scale Forms

  • Five Blues Scale Forms

  • Modes of the Major Scale

  • Variations on the Minor Scale

  • Glossary of Guitar Techniques

  • Glossary of Terms

  • Selected Bibliography

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