The Acoustic Guitar Method, Book 1 [With CD]. This item is unavailable.The Acoustic Guitar Method, Book 1 [With CD]

(Guitar Educational). We're proud to present the first in a series of beginning method books that uses traditional American music to teach authentic techniques and songs. From the folk, blues and old-time music of yesterday have come the rock, country and jazz of today. Now you can begin understanding, playing and enjoying these essential traditions and styles on the instrument that truly represents American music: the acoustic guitar. Working in both tablature and standard notation, you'll learn how to find notes on the fingerboard, a variety of basic chords and strums, country backup basics, waltz time, and melodies with half notes and rests. When you're done with this method series, you'll know dozens of the tunes that form the backbone of American music and be able to play them using a variety of flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques. Songs: Man of Constant Sorrow * Columbus Stockade Blues * Careless Love * Get Along Home, Cindy * Sally Goodin * Ida Red * Darling Corey * Hot Corn, Cold Corn * East Virginia Blues * In the Pines * Banks of the Ohio * Scarborough Fair * Shady Grove. Each book includes access to online audio accompaniments for the many songs and exercises.

Acoustic Guitar contributing editor DAVID HAMBURGER is the author of more than a dozen books, including Acoustic Guitar Slide Basics, the Acoustic Guitar Method, Early Jazz and Swing Songs for Guitar, and The Acoustic Guitar Fingerstyle Method. Hamburger recently produced Austin, Texas, songwriter Michael Fracasso's new CD, Red Dog Blues, scored the Kestrel Filmworks documentary Wildcatting for Wind, and fathered an heir named Milo, all without his head exploding—yet. Hamburger has been playing folk and blues music since first picking up the guitar at the age of 12 and has been on the faculty of the National Guitar Workshop since 1988. His guitar, slide guitar, and Dobro playing can be heard on his solo albums King of the Brooklyn Delta (Chester, 1994) and Indigo Rose (Chester, 1999), as well as numerous independent recordings.