The Acoustic Guitar Method: Complete Edition

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The Acoustic Guitar Method is the only beginning guitar method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. From the folk, blues, and old-time music of yesterday have come the rock, country, and jazz of today. Now you can begin understanding, playing, and enjoying these essential traditions and styles on the instrument that truly represents American music, the acoustic guitar.

Whether you are studying with a teacher or on your own, let the Acoustic Guitar Method be your guide to the joys and pleasures of playing guitar. This comprehensive approach, with graded lessons and supplementary songs, is the one tool you need to get started.

This comprehensive guide is available in two different formats:

Book & Audio Download package: 130 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:

First Chords, First Song
New Chord, New Strum
Tab Basics and Your First Melody
Reading Notes
The G Chord
The C Chord
More Single Notes
Country Backup Basics
Seventh Chords
Waltz Time
Half Notes and Rests
Minor Chords
A Minor-Key Melody
The B7 Chord
The Alternating Bass
Blues in E
Major Scales and Melodies
Starting to Fingerpick
More Picking Patterns
The G-Major Scale
Bass Runs
More Bass Runs
Blues Basics
Alternating-Bass Fingerpicking
Fingerpicking in 3/4
The Swing Feel
Tackling the F Chord
More Chord Moves
Introducing Travis Picking
Travis Picking, Continued
Hammer-ons
Slides and Pull-offs
Alternate Bass Notes
The Pinch
All Together Now

"An excellent method! Engaging musical examples combined with uncommon sense exercises (written from the perspective of the beginner's mind) provide for and encourage a painless learning experience. The acoustic guitar has a new diplomatic handbook in David Hamburger's text!"

—Michael Millham, Adjunct Instructor of Guitar, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA