Mel Bay Publications
Level : Beginning
With Notes, TAB

A perfect introduction to fingerstyle guitar.
Steve Eckels has carefully designed each lesson to allow for smooth progression.
Each of the ten lessons contains the four pillars of practice: scales, reading, progressions and repertoire.
This book provides arrangements of beautiful guitar pieces in a basic form, and instructions for how to embellish them in your own way. Included are shortcuts for learning to read music, and fingerstyle accompaniment patterns such as the famous "Travis" pattern.

Reading Music
Right Hand Exercises
Lesson 1: Scale in half notes and quarter notes on strings 6 & 5; reading on strings 6 & 5 Solo, Early in the Morning
Lesson 2: Scale in eighth notes on strings 5 & 4; reading on strings 5 & 4 Solo, Down By the Sally Gardens
Lesson 3: Scale using the “walk-running” rhythm on strings 4 & 3; reading on strings 4 & 3
Solo, O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Lesson 4: Scale using the “running-walk” rhythm on strings 3 & 2; reading on strings 3 & 2
Solo, Jingle Bells
Lesson 5: Scale using the “walk-running” rhythm on strings 2 & 1; reading using the “running walk” rhythm on strings 2 & 1
Solo, B-I-N-G-O
Lesson 6 - Scale: The 17 Natural Notes; reading on all strings using peripheral vision. Solo, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Lesson 7: Scale using “syncopation”; reading using syncopation. Solo, Greensleeves
Lesson 8: Scale using the dotted quarter “heart-beat” rhythm; reading using the heart-beat rhythm. Solo, Scarborough Fair
Lesson 9: Scale using the “syn-co-o rhythm”; reading using the syn-co-o rhythm. Solo, Malaguena!
Lesson 10: Scale using a “fixed finger”; reading combining rhythm figures. Solo, Carol of the Bells