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    This document is a warm-up worksheet for guitar students that focuses on alternation, a technique where two adjacent strings are played alternately. It provides fingering diagrams and instructions for practicing alternation with different finger combinations on open strings, including exercises for playing notes staccato, which is indicated by a dot above or below the note. Students are guided to practice these techniques and define staccato before trying the alternation patterns on other open strings.

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    This document is a warm-up worksheet for guitar students that focuses on alternation, a technique where two adjacent strings are played alternately. It provides fingering diagrams and instructions for practicing alternation with different finger combinations on open strings, including exercises for playing notes staccato, which is indicated by a dot above or below the note. Students are guided to practice these techniques and define staccato before trying the alternation patterns on other open strings.

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    Warmup Packet 1 Alternation

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    Ernesto Hernandez-Trejo
    This document is a warm-up worksheet for guitar students that focuses on alternation, a technique where two adjacent strings are played alternately. It provides fingering diagrams and instructions for practicing alternation with different finger combinations on open strings, including exercises for playing notes staccato, which is indicated by a dot above or below the note. Students are guided to practice these techniques and define staccato before trying the alternation patterns on other open strings.

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    Warm-Up

    Worksheet #1: Alternation


    Dedicated to the best guitar students in Austin, Texas
    Mr. Hernandez-Trejo

    p = thumb
    i = index
    m = middle
    a = ring finger
    let these notes ring out...hold for entire duration (4 beats)
    Focus on achieving a beautiful, round, robust tone.

     i  i 
    Push into the strings - do not pull!

    
    1


    m m

    (Repeat on all open strings)

          i   i m    i   
    Don't forget to follow the fingerings written above the notes!


    2


    i m m m

    (Repeat on all the open strings)


    2
    Notice the small black dot on top of these notes?


                 
    This little dot tells us that these notes are staccato


        
    3 i m i m

    To achieve staccato:

    1) play the note with one finger (index)

    2) Immediately rest the following finger (middle)


    on the same string to stop the sound of the note

    3) If performed correctly, you should hear a very short note each time.
    This technique can be performed with a variety of different finger combinations.

     
     
                 
       
    4 i m i m i m i m

    How do you know if a note is staccato?


    (hint: do you see any markings above or below the notes?)

        
           
    5

     
    i m i m i m i m

    How do you define staccato?


    staccato indicates that a music note should
    be played short and separated from its neighboring notes

        
                 
    6

     
    i m i m i m i m i m i m i m i m

    (Got it? Ok, now try it on other open strings!)


       
    3

        

        

        

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