Coup De Pouce Coup De Pouce Guitare Special Senior Vol.1
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Essential Information About This Method
Essential Information About This Method
- Progressive and Reassuring: designed to support both absolute beginners and guitarists who already know a few chords, with step-by-step progression.
- Complete Reading and Playing: learning chords, arpeggios, accompaniment rhythms, tablature reading, and basic music theory explained simply.
- Clear Visual Support: neat layout, fretboard drawings, and fingering diagrams to improve precision and playing comfort.
- Playing with Music: audio tracks with exercises and melodic pieces in various styles (blues, folk, bossa nova, classical, rock), with notation in both standard notation and tablature.
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Summary of This Method
Designed to learn guitar under the best conditions, this guitar method guides you from the very first gestures to solid basics of accompaniment. You will find many practical tips for holding the instrument properly, tuning it, changing strings, and adopting good habits from the start. The method emphasizes a logical progression: understanding the fretboard, reading tablature, playing clean chord changes, then developing arpeggios and essential techniques to accompany songs musically.
The pedagogy is based on clear explanations and effective visual presentation: drawings representing the guitar neck and finger placement facilitate memorization and correct common mistakes (hand position, finger choice, accuracy of pressure). To help you play quickly "in context," audio tracks accompany the exercises and pieces: a real advantage for working on tempo, rhythmic regularity, and precision, even independently.
The musical content is intentionally varied to develop your sense of groove and accompaniment culture: blues, folk, bossa nova, classical, rock... The scores are offered in dual notation, standard notation and tablature, allowing you to play solo or be accompanied by other musicians. A chapter dedicated to accompanying well-known songs ("Si on chantait") helps you apply your skills on a popular and cross-generational repertoire (Hallyday, Dutronc, Voulzy, Eddy Mitchell, Capdevielle, Fugain, Dassin, Trenet, Beatles, Nino Ferrer, Le Forestier, Salvador, Bourvil, Brassens, Renaud).
Finally, the main music theory concepts, common guitar signs and effects are explained simply, to understand what you play and progress faster. At the end of the book, a mini chord dictionary gathering essential positions becomes a valuable everyday tool: ideal for consolidating your chord changes, enriching your accompaniment, and gaining ease, whether playing with family, fulfilling a long-held dream, or simply enjoying the pleasure of music.
Technical specifications
| Publication | Methods | ||
| Instrumentation | guitar | Difficulty | beginner to intermediate |
| Genre | guitar method | Pages | 76 |
| Language | French | ||
Questions frequently asked
Is this guitar method suitable for a senior beginner?
Designed for a beginner to intermediate level, this 76-page method covers guitar holding, tuning, and string changing. The progression then leads to reading tablature, chords, and arpeggios. Neck diagrams and fingerings help assimilate basic techniques.
Are the scores provided in tablature?
The pieces and exercises are offered in dual notation: standard notation and tablature. This presentation allows for learning to read music while directly identifying positions on the neck.
Are there audio tracks included with Coup De Pouce Guitare Special Senior Vol.1?
Audio tracks accompany the exercises and pieces in the method. They enable practicing tempo, rhythmic consistency, and accuracy independently.
What music styles are covered in this method?
The content includes exercises and pieces in blues, folk, bossa nova, classical, and rock. A chapter titled 'Si on chantait' also offers a popular repertoire featuring Brassens, Renaud, the Beatles, and Trenet.
Does the method include a chord dictionary?
A mini chord dictionary is located at the end of the book. It compiles essential chord positions to reinforce chord transitions.



