How To Play Guitar

Packed with music, charts and photos, this easy-to-use guidebook provides lessons for playing electric and acoustic guitar by some of the guitar world's topteachers - pros like Arlen Roth, Rick Gartner, Happy Traum, and Dan Crary. To pics range from the basics to getting serious, and include: reading music, fretboard positioning, chords, strumming, bass runs, flatpicker's rhythm licks, fingerpicking, playing the blues, barre chords and their variations, techniquesfor practicing based on listening, and more. The companion CD contains 12 les sons in the book, from stringing and tuning the guitar to playing the blues scale in all positions and keys.