Publisher: Mel Bay

A comprehensive method for learning to play guitar in the bluegrass flatpicking style. The first part includes instruction on tuning, reading notation and tablature, learning chords from diagrams, bass runs, left and right hand techniques, plus short pieces and studies. The second part offers dozens of progressively arranged solos in standard notation and tablature with suggested accompaniment chord symbols. Note Reading, tablature, chord Background Styles, Bass Runs, Bluegrass Techniques, Fills and Endings, The Capo and Its Use, Advanced Solos in the Full Flat-picking Style. How to pick out tunes single string style (one note at a time), How to play chord accompaniment, How to play full Bluegrass flat-picking solos wtih melody and chords mixed together. All the songs and solos in this book are written in two simple keys G and C. All the playing is done in the basic position on the first few frets.