In this second volume from The Acoustic Guitar Method series for beginning guitarists, you'll continue to learn traditional American music using authentic techniques and songs. Learn how to play alternating bass notes in a country backup pattern, how to combine chords and classic bass runs, and how to play your first fingerpicking patterns. You'll find out what makes a major scale work and what blues notes do to a melody, all while learning more notes on the fingerboard and more great songs from the American roots repertoire. Songs include: Columbus Stockade Blues • The Girl I Left Behind Me • Shady Grove • Will the Circle Be Unbroken? • Shenandoah • Sail Away Ladies • I Am a Pilgrim • House of the Rising Sun • Stagolee • Bury Me Beneath the Willow • Alberta • Sugar Babe. Includes "tab" tablature notation.
17 wonderful traditional songs in both fingerpicking and flatpicking styles, taken from Happy Traum's popular instructional columns originally published in Guitar Player magazine. Develop your guitar techniques and add to your repertoire of tunes. Inclu...
A first of its kind, the At a Glance series pairs an instructional DVD lesson taught by a professional guitarist with a supplemental¦book for a comprehensive learning experience. Each book/DVD features¦several lessons pertaining to one topic, and¦the DV...
We're proud to present the first in a series of beginning method books that uses traditional American music to teach authentic techniques and songs. From the folk, blues and old-time music of yesterday have come the rock, country and jazz of today. Now...
Newly revised! The second edition of this world-famous method by Will Schmid and Greg Koch is preferred by teachers because it makes them more effective while making their job easier. Students enjoy its easy-to-follow format that gives them a solid musi...
