The Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Method

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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.

This comprehensive guide is available in two different formats:

Book & Audio Download package: 75 pages with written instruction, notation and tab, plus accompanying audio instruction, performed by David Hamburger, available to download.
PDF & Audio Download package: Downloadable version featuring the complete written instruction (including standard notation and tablature) from the book, plus accompanying audio instruction, performed by David Hamburger.

Includes:

PART 1

Travis Picking Basics
From Backup To Melody
Switching Chords
Eighth Notes And Syncopation
The Steady-Bass Blues
Steady Bass From Chord To Chord

PART 2

Triplet Feel
Picking Pattern Fills
Descending Bass Lines And Chord Substitutions
Quicker Chord Changes
Double Stops
Seventh Chords Up The Neck
Walking Bass Lines
Doin’ That Rag
Chord Anticipations And Early Jazz
16 Dropped-D Tuning
Swinging The Blues
Open-D Tuning

SONGS

John Henry
Since I’ve Laid My Burden Down
Delia
Nobody's Fault but Mine
Houston Blues
Down in Navasota
St. James Infirmary
Alberta
Hazleton
The Uptown Lowdown
Rag Mama
I Ain’t Got Nobody
St. Louis Blues
The Blunn Creek Slow Drag
Battle Hymn of the Republic

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