This book assumes a modest music reading ability and some familiarity with basic classic guitar technique. A comprehensive, exploration of the requirements for developing effortless and musically sensitive guitar technique.

  About the Author       
  Acknowledgments       
  Prelude       
  Preface       
  Our Primary Instrument       
  The Use of the Self       
  Conclusion       
  Lesson One (Seating       
  Lesson Two (Right-Hand Positioning       
  Lesson Three (Free Stroke With the Thumb       
  Lesson Four (The Left Hand       
  Lesson Five (Left-Hand Exercises       
  Lesson Six (Right-Hand Finger Strokes       
  Lesson Seven (Right-Hand Finger Alternations       
  Lesson Eight (The Prepared Stroke       
  Lesson Nine (Coordination Exercises       
  Lesson Ten (String Crossing       
  Lesson Eleven (Consolidation Exercises       
  Lesson Twelve (Fingers Together       
  Lesson Thirteen (Thumb and Fingers Together       
  Lesson Fourteen (Arpeggio Movements       
  Lesson Fifteen (Giuliani Revisited       
  Lesson Sixteen (Speed and Coordination Drills       
  Lesson Seventeen (The Bar       
  Lesson Eighteen (Left-Hand Finger Independence       
  Lesson Nineteen (Independence Exercises       
  Twenty (Slurs       
  Lesson Twenty-One (Shifting       
  Twenty-Two (Long Scales       
  Lesson Twenty-Three (Scale Practice       
  Lesson Twenty-Four (Scale Exercises For Speed and Effortless Endurance       
  Appendices