Acoustic Guitar Solo Fingerstyle Basics

Enrich your playing with the expressive and dynamic textures of solo fingerstyle guitar. You’ll learn to build simple melodies into complete guitar arrangements, understand fingerings that will bring complex chords within your reach, and explore country blues, classical techniques, Celtic music, and more. This updated and expanded edition includes 3 hours of video instruction with fingerstyle master Doug Young.

Table of Contents

GETTING STARTED

• Building Fingerstyle Arrangements ANDREW DUBROCK
• Playing Country Blues DALE MILLER
• Alternating Bass Fingerpicking KEN PERLMAN
• Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs KEN PERLMAN
  

MOVING ON

• Dropped-D Tuning HAPPY TRAUM
• Celtic Songs in Standard Tuning AL PETTEWAY
• Hard Chords Made Easy MARK HANSON
• Great Classical Exercises GARY LEE JOYNER
• The Essential Techniques Behind Fingerstyle Guitar DOUG YOUNG

11 SONGS TO PLAY

• Dale's Blues
• Greensleeves
• In Old Colonial Days
• Jesse James
• Sidh Beag, Sidh Mor
• Slow Waltz
• Sweet Thing
• Tentacle Tango
  
• The White Cockade
• Wild Mountain Thyme
• Worried Blues

This complete downloadable guide includes:

• Standard notation, tablature, and chord diagrams
• Accessible arrangements
• Audio with music played slowly and up to tempo
• Video instruction for each lesson