No musical knowledge required! This is a book for the rest of us, those who want to actually play something on the guitar, not just strum chords to accompany our warbling. Aimed at both absolute beginners and those wishing to progress to producing tunes, Pick Up the Guitar is an inexpensive and straight to the point solution.
Contents
Getting to Know Your Guitar
How to Tune Your Guitar
Replacing Strings
The Left Hand
The Right Hand
Reading Tablature
More Left Hand Information
The Basic Right Hand Strum
How to Play a Tune
More About Playing Tunes
Lead-in Notes
The Double Strum
Basic Strum in Waltz Time
The Double Strum in Waltz Time
Fingerpicking
More About Picking Tunes
Picking off the Beat
The Capo
Notes on the Guitar
Tunes
Aunt Rhody
Banks of the Ohio
Black Velvet Band
Camptown Races
Coming Round Mountain
Coulter's Candy
Down in the Valley
The Drunken Sailor
Frère Jacques
Grandfather's Clock
I'll Tell My Ma
Kum Ba Ya
The Leaving of Liverpool
Maggie May
Michael, Row the Boat
Morning has Broken My Bonny
Oh, Susanna
On Top of Old Smoky
Plaisir d'Amour
Red River Valley
Scarborough Fair
Silver Threads Among Gold
Skip to My Lou
When Saints Go Marching In
Pick Up the Guitar Book and CD - Peter Flanagan
This tutor, written in tablature by Peter Flanagan, provides a carefully worked out method to give instant gratification from the moment you Pick up the Guitar. You are taught to play tunes with a simple accompaniment rather than just how to strum.