Fingerpicking Flatpicking and Slide: Guitar: Instrumental Album

This method is aimed at those looking to explore all the facets and techniques of beautiful folk Guitar or simply acoustic Guitar in general. This book provides advice on techniques like fingerpicking and flatpicking as well as arpeggio and chord accompaniment. The use of the capo an essential part of folk Guitar is covered in a separate chapter along with alternate tunings. Finally techniques like slide hammer-ons pull-offs are covered along with basic percussive techniques. All this is illustrated with a number of acoustic tunes in the style of great artists like Bob Dylan Tracy Chapman Cat Stevens Simon

This coursebook is intended for all those who want to discover the many-faceted expressive possibilities of the folk Guitar or more generally of the acoustic Guitar.Arpeggio and chord accompaniments give you the opportunity to go into the fingerpicking and flatpicking technique. The capotasto (short ‘capo‘) an indispensable accessory of the folk guitar occupies a whole chapter in this coursebook; the same holds for the alternate tuning.The coursebook obviously also addresses articulation techniques (such as slides hammer-ons pull-offs or ghost notes) as well as complementary percussion techniques. All this is skillfully packed into amultitude of ‘acoustic licks‘ inspired by the world’s greatest artists – Bob Dylan The Who Tracy Chapman Cat Stevens The Eagles Simon and Garfunkel Oasis Extreme or The Beatles.The DVD shows you how to properly play the numerous accompaniments presented in this coursebook; the CD on the other hand provides you the opportunity to practice the accompaniments over adequate backing tracks.