Acoustic Guitar Styles

by Larry Sandberg

Overview

"Acoustic Guitar Styles" introduces the most popular traditional styles for the acoustic guitar. The step-by-step approach, using a small repertoire of well-known songs, enables the student to explore various styles that can be adapted to play personal favorites. Although a basic knowledge of the guitar is assumed, even the beginner will benefit from this progressive approach.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138156425
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Larry Sandberg has been teaching guitar for over forty years. He is the author of the Acoustic Guitar Guide (2001) and co-author of the Folk Music Sourcebook. He is a regular contributor to Acoustic Guitar magazine, as well as other guitar publications. He teaches guitar as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Colorado and is on the faculty of the Denver Folklore Center.

Table of Contents

American Roots Guitar Styles * Introduction * Acknowledgments Part I: Preliminaries 1. How to Use This Book Basics * Notes and Tablature * Setting Your Pace * Finding Your Place and Using the CD * Listening * Tuning 2. Basic Chord Shapes 3. Chord Progression Practice Chord Progressions * Making Chord Changes * Practicing Chord Progressions * Chord Progressions for Practice 4. Basic Picking and Plucking Patterns 5. Using Alternating Bass Notes to Vary Picking and Strumming Patterns Hammering 6. Songs to Work With Transposition * Singing * The Songs 7. More Flatpicking and Fingerpicking Patterns Brushing and Strumming * Pattern Picking Part II. Guitar Styles 8. Old-Time, Bluegrass, and Early Country Styles Carter Style Melody Playing * Breaking the Rules with Bass Notes * Conclusion to Carter Style Playing 9. Melodic Fingerpicking Preparation for Melodic Fingerpicking * Playing Melodies * Conclusion to Melodic Fingerpicking 10. Country Blues The Blues Sound * The Blues Form: 12-Bar Blues * Transposing the Blues * Blues Tracks *Conclusion to the Blues 11. Song Gallery Crawdad Song-Carter Style * On Top of Old Smoky-Carter Style * This Little Light of Mine-Carter Style * Railroad Bill-Carter Style * Hello Blues-Fingerpicked * Crawdad Song-Fingerpicked * This Little Light of Mine-Fingerpicked * Generic Rag * Saint James Infirmary

Editorial Reviews

"Acoustic Guitar Stylesn provides beginners with easily followed instructions and practice pieces which are real songs, not just finger exercises. Instructions are demonstrated through an accompanying CD plus both guitar tabulature and standard notation, while a variety of musical styles are probed." — The Bookwatch
"While the text is clear and helpful, it is the notation along with the accompanying CD ... that best conveys the sense of the proper phrasing of passages and approaches to single-note soloing. What'sets this guide apart from others are its focus on old-time music and the CD... Recommended." — Library Journal

From the Publisher

For many, the acoustic guitar is basic to their favorite music. For others, playing acoustic guitar is a way of reducing stress and promoting well-being. For either group, this book will be of interest. Tailoring his text to those who have mastered acoustic guitar rudiments, know a few chords, and are learning how to make changes cleanly, experienced instructor Sandberg (The Acoustic Guitar Guide) teaches more advanced solo techniques in old-time music styles (e.g., country, blues, ragtime, and bluegrass). Suggestions for practice appear throughout. While the text is clear and helpful, it is the notation, along with the accompanying CD (to which this reviewer did not have access), that best conveys the sense of how the music should sound, including the proper phrasing of passages and approaches to single-note soloing. What sets this guide apart from others are its focus on old-time music and the CD. Given that the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack, which showcases American roots music, won Album of the Year at this year's Grammy Awards, this book could prove to be quite successful. Recommended. Eric C. Shoaf, Brown Univ. Lib., Providence Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal