Folk Style Guitar

Out Of Print... This is a book to help you make the transition from Beginner to Guitarist. Its designed as a sequel to Harry Taussigs popular Teach Yourself Guitar, but it can be used by anyone with a working knowledge of guitar fundamentals and a real desire to play music on the guitar. Folk-Style Guitar concentrates on finger-picking, the most versatile and familiar American guitar style. The emphasis is on the guitar as a solo instrumentalthough words and melodies are included with many of the songs in this book. In the first chapter, Harry Taussig takes you through a review of the basic guitar keys, then goes on to introduce important new chords, and shows you the use of hammers and slides. The next chapter concentrates on three-finger pick and the last, appropriately titled "Doing It All Yourself" helps you to bring your new knowledge together to play some especially exciting solos. By the time youve worked through this book, youll have learned forty-five great folk classics, including "John Hardy", "Bully of the Town", Freight Train," "Salty Dog", "See See Rider" and lots more.