An integrated approach to beginning music-making on the classical guitar

The purpose of this treatise is to discuss general principles of learning as they relate to classical guitar instruction, review extant guitar methods in wide use, and provide a beginning method book for the classical guitar. Five principles of learning are explored in relation to guitar pedagogy: Early integration of skills, pattern recognition development, sequencing of material, use of pre-existent knowledge, and the development of metacognition. The final chapter describes the author’s guitar method, “An Integrated Approach to Beginning Music-Making on the Guitar,” which is written to conform to the five principles of learning cited above.Musi