Acoustic Guitar Styles

Contents

• 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