Beginner's Fingerpicking Guitar: Ragtime, Pop, Blues & Jazz (book/3 CD)

Mel Bay Publications
Level : Beginning-Intermediate

As part of Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips and instruction implemented throughout the arrangements in this book. The three audio CDs give 3 full hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction.

Lesson 1: Basic picking patterns for pop songs and rock ballads, shuffle beat/boogie woogie, moving bass lines, playing leads with thumb beat.
Lesson 2: Songs include: Bill Bailey, Cocaine, Oh Babe, Ain't No Lie, Maple Leaf Rag and more.
Lesson 3: Moveable chords, rockabilly leads, chord families, changing keys. Songs: Nine Pound Hammer, Will The Circle Be Unbroken', Wabash Cannonball, Bury Me Beneath The Willow Tree.