Painless Guitar: A Fun & Easy Guide for the Complete Beginner

Learning the guitar doesn't get any more fun or simple than this! This book is for the complete beginner, for acoustic OR electric guitar, and it includes the chords and melodies to 31 classic folk songs.

·         Absolutely no experience needed

·         Easy-to-read chord charts

·         Simple tab

·         Painless Strumming

·         Tips to make your dream of playing the guitar come true

·         Includes a link to download 41 instructional MP3s

Wayne Erbsen has made it his lifelong passion to teach, collect, record, perform, write and publish Southern Appalachian music and folklore. A master of both the clawhammer and bluegrass banjo styles, Wayne also performs and records on fiddle, guitar and mandolin, and has authored twenty-eight books of instruction, lore and history. An instructor for over forty-five years, Wayne has taught literally thousands of people to play stringed instruments. <BR> In addition to Wayne s deep interest in old-time Appalachian and bluegrass music, he has also researched, recorded and written on numerous other themes of American culture such as The Civil War, Victorian life, log cabin culture, cowboys and pioneers, railroads and gospel music. <BR> For the past twenty-four years Wayne has taught Appalachian music at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina. He is an active instructor at his own teaching facility called The Log Cabin Cooking & Music Center in Asheville, NC. As a book publisher, he is the founder and president of Native Ground Books & Music. <BR> Ted Parrish first picked up a guitar in 1978 and has been playing ever since, adding ukulele, banjo and mandolin along the way. He taught guitar for many years at Chicago's Venerable Old Town School of Folk Music, where he met his wife Catherine Hall-Parrish. Together they continue to perform, record and teach at their very own Parrish Music School and Store in Southwest Wisconsin.