Common-Tone Scale Practice $ String Crossing (guitar)
In 1923, pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff outlined a method of scale practice that didn’t rely on rôte learning and which he thought contributed to the world-wide success of Russian pianists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This fifty-one page booklet (6500 words, over twenty examples and illustrations, and thirty pages of scales) explores Rachmaninoff's ideas in the context of guitar study. Also included is an in-depth look at modifications to string-crossing technique required by high speeds. A cover page is included in case you wish to take the booklet to a copy shop and have it printed and bound (spiral binding recommended).
You'll receive a fifty-page PDF booklet that includes twenty pages of text and thirty pages of one-octave scales presented as outlined by Rachmaninoff in 1923. It also includes a detailed analysis of high-level string-crossing technique, which will help one better understand and solve technical problems related to high-speed scale work. A cover page is included for printing.