Acoustic Guitar Styles

American Roots Guitar Styles * Introduction * Acknowledgments Part I: Preliminaries 1. How to Use This Book Basics * Notes and Tablature * Setting Your Pace * Finding Your Place and Using the CD * Listening * Tuning 2. Basic Chord Shapes 3. Chord Progression Practice Chord Progressions * Making Chord Changes * Practicing Chord Progressions * Chord Progressions for Practice 4. Basic Picking and Plucking Patterns 5. Using Alternating Bass Notes to Vary Picking and Strumming Patterns Hammering 6. Songs to Work With Transposition * Singing * The Songs 7. More Flatpicking and Fingerpicking Patterns Brushing and Strumming * Pattern Picking Part II. Guitar Styles 8. Old-Time, Bluegrass, and Early Country Styles Carter Style Melody Playing * Breaking the Rules with Bass Notes * Conclusion to Carter Style Playing 9. Melodic Fingerpicking Preparation for Melodic Fingerpicking * Playing Melodies * Conclusion to Melodic Fingerpicking 10. Country Blues The Blues Sound * The Blues Form: 12-Bar Blues * Transposing the Blues * Blues Tracks *Conclusion to the Blues 11. Song Gallery Crawdad Song-Carter Style * On Top of Old Smoky-Carter Style * This Little Light of Mine-Carter Style * Railroad Bill-Carter Style * Hello Blues-Fingerpicked * Crawdad Song-Fingerpicked * This Little Light of Mine-Fingerpicked * Generic Rag * Saint James Infirmary