Whether you're a first-time fingerstylist who's studying with a teacher or on your own, The Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Method by David Hamburger gives you the detailed, comprehensive instruction you need to improve your skills. This book introduces you to the two most essential fingerstyle approaches for playing American roots music: Travis picking and the steady-bass style. In each lesson, you'll learn new techniques, concepts, and chord voicings along with ways to practice and get them under your fingers. Then you can use what you just learned to play a classic song or solo break from the blues, ragtime, folk, country, and ragtime traditions. 18 In-Depth Lessons, including: Travis Picking Basics, Switching Chords, Eighth Notes and Syncopation, Picking Pattern Fills, Double Stops, and much more. 15 songs to play, including: John Henry • Delia • St. James Infirmary • Nobody's Fault but Mine • Houston Blues • Alberta • and more.

With this popular guide and two-CD package, guitarists will learn everything from basic techniques to more advanced moves such as accompaniment, flatpicking, swing and slide guitar. Informative articles include: Learning to Sight-Read (Charles Chapman); Using the Circle of Fifths (Dale Miller); Hammer-ons and Pull-offs (Ken Perlman); Bass Line Basics (David Hamburger); Accompanying Yourself (Elizabeth Papapetrou); Bach for Flatpickers (Dix Bruce); Double-Stop Fiddle Licks (Glenn Weiser); Celtic Flatpicking (Dylan Schorer); Open-G Slide Fills (David Hamburger); Practicing Secrets (Dan Crary); and many more!

Learn the fundamentals of bluegrass by exploring its various styles and the masters who defined the genre: Doc Watson, Clarence White, and Norman Blake. The book includes background information, instruction and 12 classic songs, including: Greenback Dollar • Kingdom Come • Lonesome Old River • Midnight on the Stormy Deep • Up the Creek • Whiskey Before Breakfast • and more. The CD includes demos of the exercises and songs.

Add to your repertoire with this collection of early jazz and swing standards! The companion CD features a two-guitar recording of each tune, and the book includes full guitar parts in standard notation and tab with chord diagrams, plus detailed notes on the song origins and arrangements.

Includes 15 songs: After You've Gone • Avalon • Baby, Won't You Please Come Home • Ballin' the Jack • Hindustan • I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me) • Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana) • Limehouse Blues • Poor Butterfly • Rose Room • Saint James Infirmary • St. Louis Blues • Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do • Till the Clouds Roll By • Whispering.

Add to your repertoire and reinforce your technique with this collection of traditional, easy-to-play American roots music. This book/CD pack contains 15 old-time classics arranged so that acoustic guitarists can practice single-note melodies, basic strums and basslines, and simple chords. Includes detailed notes on song origins and arrangements, complete song lyrics, standard notation, tab and chord diagrams, plus a companion CD with complete guitar parts! Songs: The Blackest Crow • Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie • Down in the Valley to Pray • Eighth of January • Golden Slippers • I Truly Understand • John Brown's Dream • Little Liza Jane • Man of Constant Sorrow • New River Train • Oh, Them Golden Slippers • Over the Waterfall • Queen of the Earth, Child of the Stars • Rain and Snow • Richmond Blues • Willow Garden.

Companion songbook to The Acoustic Guitar Method!