This two-page worksheet is an addition to the Sample Syllabus for Guitar QuickStart™. It may be photocopied as a class handout. Page one of the worksheet provides theoretical information. The tablatures on page 2 can be used by students to diagram the first position scale spellings.
The current edition of the book does not include material introducing the formal construction of scales. Students frequently request scale information, however, so this brief introduction can be incorporated into the syllabus for classroom work.

Download – Major Scale Construction

This Prelude (Op.114, No.1, by Ferdinando Carulli, c1770-1841) is an optional supplement to the book Guitar QuickStart™ by Mary Jo Disler, ISBN 0-9642229-0-6. It is a classic example of what may be termed a “chord piece,” so typical of much music written for classic guitar. Students may be helped to discover the relationship between chord tablature fingerings and notated music by studying this Prelude. It is played entirely within first position, so beginning guitarists can work out the notation. It also uses basic chords studied in Guitar QuickStart™, although some of them are inversions and have chord tones other than the root in the bass line. Blank chord frames in the score may be marked with the notation fingerings in each measure as a strategy for discovering the chord identity.

Download – Prelude in C by Carulli

This piece can be studied after the note-reading chapters of Guitar QuickStart™ are completed. It introduces sharps and key signatures, rest stroke melody with open string bass notes for the thumb, the concept of counting "voices," and second-position fingering for the fretting hand. It also includes slurs, both hammered and pulled. All of these elements are explained on page 1 of the file.

Download – Moderato in D Major by Diabelli

Suitable for intermediate level classic guitar study. This Prelude has been arranged and published numerous times, and is endlessly fascinating. This version stays very close to the original, with minimal additions of implied bass notes.

Download – Prelude, Cello Suite No. 1, BWV 1007, by J. S. Bach, arr. Disler

Use this worksheet with Chapter 2 of Guitar QuickStart™, "The Guitar Fretboard." Classroom teachers can use it the first day of class, when some students may not have purchased the text as yet. It also works well in private instruction.

Download – 12-fret Layout Guitar Worksheet

Two pages: one blank diagram, and one with letter-layout complete. Print it out on one sheet, with the blank on one side and layout on the reverse. Have it laminated at a quick-print shop and use water-based markers (NOT "permanent" markers) to help students diagram letters, scales, position-reading locations, or just about anything a teacher might wish to demonstrate.

Download – 12-fret Diagram