You Can Teach Yourself Fingerpicking Guitar
Are you interested in learning to play fingerstyle or fingerpicking on the guitar?
Fingerstyle guitar is cool, as it has components of lead and rhythm guitar working together and at the same time on the same guitar. If you want to learn to play guitar in this style, and learn on your own, this book will help you get there. It's written by a guitar teacher, so you're being taught by someone with the experience of showing guitar students how to play.
In order to make learning to play more fun and less work, the author has used guitar tablature throughout the book instead of standard music notation. This will make things easier for you to read the music, and you can enjoy the playing more without having to worry about learning notation right away. Later, in you decide to, you can always study standard notation.
Let's take a moment and look at the specifics of what you get with this guitar instruction book. The book starts with a preface and some introduction. Here you can learn a little about the author, and find out where he's coming from, and some of his philosophy about learning the guitar, playing the guitar, and practicing. He also explains his thoughts on the use of tablature. There is a page of explanation about the parts of a guitar and their names. There is also some advice about how to select a guitar. How to hold the guitar, and how to tune the guitar for playing. An explanation of right and left hand notation that is used. The fingerboard and chord diagrams. After this introduction, you start learning your first few chords and begin to play a song. Alternate bass is introduced for variety. There is a section that teaches you how to read tablature.
And once you learn to read the tablature, a lot of new songs get introduced quickly. You learn more chords. Then there's a section about the Blues progression, time signatures, musical keys, and musical tempo are also covered. Additionally, there is a section that teaches you how to play the melody of a song and the accompaniment at the same time. Barre chords, alternate bass notes, and how to play the Blues progression in any key you want to are then discussed.
There is a section that teaches you about the capo. Some of the questions that get answered here include: What is a capo? How do I use a capo? There is also a capo chart that explains and shows what chords you get for all the different positions the capo is located at on the guitar neck.
The book finished up with some performance tips. Some discussion about playing the guitar with other musicians. And a little more talk about the topic of guitar tablature. A good feature of this book is that the author takes the time to give you advice on various topics throughout the book. So, you get the benefit of his experience as you learn guitar from the book. All in all, a great teaching material for those who want to learn to play fingerpicking style guitar.
