Progressive Ragtime Fingerpicking Guitar Book/CD

Progressive Ragtime Fingerpicking Guitar contains all you need to know to start learning to be a great ragtime fingerstyle guitar player - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson ragtime fingerstyle guitar tutorial.

Suitable for all ages and all types of acoustic guitars including steel-string acoustic guitars. Prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the guitar is required to teach yourself to learn to play guitar from this book.

Comes with 1 CD containing guitar audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.

Teach yourself:
How to play guitar using fingerstyle technique
How to play guitar fingerpicking patterns to be used as an accompaniment for any ragtime chord progression or ragtime song
How to play ragtime guitar chords used in ragtime guitar parts
All the fundamental techniques of ragtime fingerstyle guitar playing including free stroke, alternative thumb style, picking with the thumb, pinching, syncopating a melody, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and combining a melody and bass line
Guitar theory for learning how to read guitar music and how to read guitar tabs for beginners
How to tune a guitar
All the popular left and right hand techniques used in traditional and contemporary ragtime fingerpicking guitar
Ragtime fingerstyle guitar tips and guitar tricks that every player should know when learning guitar
Shortcuts for how to learn guitar fast by getting the most from guitar practice sessions
Contains everything you need to know to learn to play the guitar today.

Features include:
Progressive step-by-step easy guitar lessons written by a professional ragtime guitar teacher
Full color photos and diagrams
Easy-to-read ragtime guitar music, ragtime guitar chords and easy ragtime guitar tabs
Guitar chord chart containing formulas and chord diagrams for all important ragtime guitar chords
Several classic ragtime fingerpicking solos that make use of all the techniques that were introduced throughout the book
57 ragtime fingerstyle guitar exercises, ragtime guitar chord progressions, ragtime guitar patterns, ragtime guitar melodies, ragtime guitar bass lines and popular easy ragtime guitar songs in ragtime styles