The Acoustic Guitar Method - Complete Edition: Learn to Play Using the Techniques & Songs of American Roots Music (Acoustic Guitar (String Letter))

(Guitar Method). A complete collection of all three Acoustic Guitar Method books in one volume! Learn how to play guitar with the only beginning method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. Beginning with a few basic chords and strums, you'll start right in learning real music drawn from blues, folk, country and bluegrass traditions. You'll learn how to find notes on the fingerboard, expand your collection of chords by learning songs in various keys, and learn different kinds of picking patterns. When you're done with this method series, you'll know dozens of the tunes that form the backbone of American music, using a variety of flatpicking and fingerpicking techniques. Songs include: Bury Me Beneath the Willow * Delia * Frankie and Johnny * The Girl I Left Behind Me * House of the Rising Sun * Ida Red * In the Pines * Little Sadie * Man of Constant Sorrow * Sally Goodin * Scarborough Fair * Will the Circle Be Unbroken? * and many more. Accompanying audio examples are all available for download!

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.