First Lessons Flatpicking Guitar
with online audio and video
by Joe Carr
Acoustic Guitar - Sheet Music

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Guitar (flatpicking) - Beginning

SKU: MB.99973M

With online audio and video. Composed by Joe Carr. Saddle-stitched, Style, Method. First Lessons. Country/Bluegrass. Book and online audio/video. 40 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #99973M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.99973M).

ISBN 9780786687954. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

This new book is perfect for beginners, players with a little experience and guitarists who want a good grounding in the flatpicking style. Using popular American fiddle tunes, Joe introduces the important basics of good flatpicking including pick direction, fingering, and hand position. The accompanying online audio and video provides a clear performance of each exercise and tune. An introduction to playing up the neck in closed positions is included as well as several of Joe's own advanced arrangements of jam session favorites. Includes: Wildwood Flower, Soldier's Joy, Red Haired Boy, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Old Joe Clark, Salt Creek and more.

• Perfect for beginners, players with a little experience and guitarists wanting good grounding in flatpicking style.
• Uses popular American fiddle tunes.
• Introduces basics of good flatpicking pick direction fingering and hand position.
• Companion online audio and video of all exercises and tunes.

  • About the Author/Introduction
  • Equipment
  • Tuning
  • Capo Use Chart
  • Choosing a Flatpick
  • Basic Alternating Picking Rules
  • Basic Chords
  • Left Hand Techniques
  • Pull Offs
  • Bass Strum Pull-off Exercise
  • Slides
  • Licks and Runs
  • The Carter Style
  • Wildwood Flower
  • Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes
  • Old Joe Clark 1, 2, and 3
  • Arkansas Traveler
  • Red Haired Boy
  • Whiskey Before Breakfast
  • Developing Speed
  • Basic Open Major Scales
  • Fingerboard Note Chart
  • Chords
  • Fingering
  • Syncopation
  • Jam Session Favorites
  • Cripple Creek
  • Temperance Reel
  • Salt River
  • Playing Up the Neck
  • Second position "A" Scale
  • Red Haired Boy 1 and 2
  • Crosspicking
  • Wildwood Flower Crosspicking
  • Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
  • Bill Cheatham
  • Conclusion
  • Advanced Arrangements
  • Ragtime Annie
  • Blackberry Blossom