Fingerpicking Guitar

The Art of Contemporary Travis Picking: How to Play the Alternating Bass Fingerpicking Style (Bk & CD)
By mastering all techniques described in the book, you will be on your way to elevating the Travis pick from a basic chordal accompaniment to a complex solo style!

The Art of Solo Fingerpicking : How to Play Alternating-Bass Fingerstyle Guitar Solos (book and CD)
How to play alternating-bass fingerstyle guitar solos. Package includes 90-minute instructional tape, 14 solos, and measure-by-measure instruction. Teaches many styles.

Beyond Basics Fingerstyle Guitar (The Ultimate Beginner Series)
 

Fingerpicking Acoustic: 15 Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation & Tab
The arrangements in this book are carefully written for intermediate-level guitarists. Each song combines melody and harmony in one superb fingerpicking arrangement. The book also includes an easy introduction to basic fingerstyle guitar. Songs include: Behind Blue Eyes * Best of My Love * Blowin' in the Wind * The Boxer * Dust in the Wind * Helplessly Hoping * Hey Jude * Learning to Fly * Leaving on a Jet Plane * Tears in Heaven * You've Got a Friend * and more.

Fingerpicking Standards: 17 Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation & Tablature
The arrangements in this book are carefully written for intermediate-level guitarists. Each solo combines melody and harmony in one superb fingerpicking arrangement. The book includes an easy introduction to basic fingerstyle guitar, and these fantastic songs: Can't Help Falling in Love * Fly Me to the Moon * Georgia on My Mind * I Could Write a Book * I Just Called to Say I Love You * I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face * In a Sentimental Mood * Just the Way You Are * Misty * Moon River * My Favorite Things * Unchained Melody * The Way We Were * What a Wonderful World * When I Fall in Love * Yesterday * You Are So Beautiful.

Easy Celtic Solos for Fingerstyle Guitar Book/CD Set
 

Fingerstyle Guitar Gig Book
This collection of fingerstyle arrangements covers a large variety of styles that includes dozens of popular and jazz standards as well as blues, country, sacred, classical, children's, and wedding music. The book is designed to be a wealthy source of material for guitarists to draw on for any solo guitar situation. Intermediate to advanced in difficulty with 146 arrangements in notation and tablature.

Complete Fingerstyle Guitar
 

Fingerstyle Guitar Essentials (Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Private Lessons)
Learn to build your technique, arrange songs, and use alternate tunings with this book/CD pack featuring lessons by Acoustic Guitar music editor Dylan Schorer, blues wizard David Hamburger, fingerstyle expert Chris Proctor, and many others. Includes 8 complete songs to play: Amazing Grace * Ashokan Farewell * Satin Doll * more.

Fingerstyle Guitar
Teaches beginning or advanced guitarists how to master the basic musical skills of fingerpicking techniques needed to play folk, blues, fiddle tunes or ragtime on guitar.

Melodic Fingerstyle Guitar
Melodic Fingerstyle Guitar is both a collection solo pieces for acoustic guitar arranged in the melodic style, and an instructional method teaching the basics of the melodic approach. The melodic style uses a technique in which the melodies are realized by playing string-to-string rather than fret-to-fret, and by including open strings as often as possible. This approach permits tones to sustain longer and creates interesting and unexpected harmonic content from even simple melodic material.

Hal Leonard Guitar Finger Picking Solos Method
A simplified approach to learning the art of playing finger picking solos which combine melody with finger picks. Written for the intermediate-level guitarist, this book includes both standard notation and tablature.

Fingerpicking Fiddle Tunes : Arranged for Fingerstyle Guitar
 

Finger Picking Styles for Guitar
Step-by-step instruction in American guitar picking, from simple patterns through the more complicated styles of noted folk and blues guitarists like Etta Baker, Sam McGee, Pete Seeger, Merle Travis, Dave Van Ronk, and many others.

Stefan Grossmans's Beginners' Fingerpicking Guitar
Now available with CD, this classic book is the perfect introduction to fingerstyle solo guitar. It features 21 popular country-blues and ragtime songs set by Stefan Grossman, Happy Traum, Dave Van Ronk and John Fahey in entry-level fingerpicking arrangements. Includes: Delia * Death Comes Creepin' * John Henry * St. James Infirmary * Silent Night * Just a Closer Walk with Thee and more. In standard notation and tablature.

Advanced Fingerstyle Guitar
This follow-up to the popular Fingerstyle Guitar book by Ken Perlman (00000081) is really two books in one. To the advanced player, it's an excellent tune book featuring 33 interesting and highly playable guitar arrangements. To the intermediate player, it serves as a clear and detailed guide to the technical expertise and theoretical knowledge required to bridge the gap to the advanced level. Covers Baroque tuning, DAD-GAD tuning and much more. The tunes are organized according to genre: Alternating Bass Pieces, The Country Blues, Melodic Guitar, Fiddle Tunes, Ragtime and Chord-Melody, and all tunes are played on the accompanying CD.
 

Encyclopedia of Irish and American Fiddle Tunes for Fingerstyle Guitar
 

Fingerpicking Gospel Solos book and CD set
 

Hal Leonard Guitar Finger Picking Solos
A simplified approach to learning the art of playing finger picking solos which combine melody with finger picks. Written for the intermediate-level guitarist, this book includes both standard notation and tablature.

Finger Picks for Guitar
A convenient reference to 47 fingerstyle guitar accompaniment patterns for use with all types of music. In standard notation and tablature. Also includes playing tips.

Basic Fingerpicking
Features over 25 original tunes and exercises to teach fingerpicking in all styles, including rock, folk-rock, blues, country and folk. The accompanying CD includes 57 demo tracks, and the book covers: how to create fingerpicking solos; accompaniment patterns for rhythmic grooves; tunes and exercises in the style of The Beatles, The Byrds, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Ani DiFranco, Fleetwood Mac, The Indigo Girls, Jewel, Tom Petty, James Taylor, Suzanne Vega and others; and much more. Appropriate for beginning to intermediate level players.