Progressive Complete Acoustic Guitar Manual is the ultimate manual for learning how to play Acoustic guitar. This book covers many styles including Folk, Country, Blues and Rock, and teaches all the popular left and right hand techniques used in traditional and contemporary guitar styles. This book is suitable for both beginning guitarists as well as experienced guitarists who wish to broaden their knowledge of guitar.
The earlier lessons deal mainly with basic chords and simple strumming patterns. You will learn many rhythm patterns, chord progressions, your first left hand techniques and accompaniments to many well know traditional Folk and Country songs.
The next group of lessons are dedicated to bass note picking, reading guitar tablature and playing your first single note licks. At this stage you will learn how to expand on your technique with more left hand techniques, more strumming patterns and basic chord shapes. Rock chords and basic Rock and Blues Acoustic licks are also introduced.
In section three you will learn how to read music and basic music theory and how it applies to the guitar. By the end of this section you should be able to read most music in the first position of the fretboard.