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(More customer reviews)I bought this book to get me more into fingerpicking. I m not a beginner and learned to fingerpick a little back in the late 1960's / early 1970's but wasn't really into it. I was more into stuff like Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer etc, and never developed beyond a rudimentary skill in fingerpicking.
This book was great for me and gave me a well laid out plan to follow using usable songs which allowed me to develop a skill I needed.
If you're willing to do the time, get this book. It's not about loving every song or example, it's about learning a skill.
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Product Description:
The Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Method 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 and ways to practice and get them under your fingers. Then you ll use what you've just learned to play a classic song or solo break from the blues, ragtime, folk, country, and ragtime traditions.
18 In-Depth Lessons: Travis Picking Basics, From Backup to Melody, Switching Chords, Eighth Notes and Syncopation, The Steady-Bass Blues, Steady Bass from Chord to Chord, 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, Dropped-D Tuning, Swinging the Blues, Open-D Tuning.
15 Songs to Play: John Henry, Since I've Laid My Burden Down, Delia, St. James Infirmary, Nobody's Fault but Mine, Houston Blues, Down in Navasota, 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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