Publisher: String Letter , 1999
Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Private Lessons

If you're a beginning looking to brush up on the basics, this book and CD from the master teachers at "Acoustic Guitar Magazine" will give you the essentials of acoustic guitar accompaniment. You'll use both fingerpicking and flatpicking techniques in a number of roots styles, including folk, rock, blues, Celtic and bluegrass.
CD with all music played slowly by the teachers and up tempo.

• Folk song accompaniment - Happy Traum
• Country backup, Carter style - Dix Bruce
• Accompanying you voice - Elisabeth Papapetrou
• Speeding up chord changes - Janet Smith
• Tackling barre chords - John Gribble
• Moving bass lines - Happy Traum
• Using a Capo - David Hamburger
• Rock Rhythm - David Hamburger
• Chord embellishment - Dylan Schorer

Includes eight great songs to play:
Mr. Bojangles
Star of the County Down
The Water is Wide
Wildwood Flower
and more