Best Acoustic Guitar Styles for Beginners & Professionals - Perfect for Campfires, Concerts & Home Practice

Whereas most books teach by rote (meaning either copying the exact sound, the exact look, or the exact notes and timing of an example), this book teaches conceptually. It explains the ideas behind the music. It gets you started and encourages you to use your own creativity and attempt to learn through active and personal playing.However, it is not an open-ended book describing all the possibilities of guitar. Rather, it teaches a very specific country-folk tradition exemplified by Merle Travis, the Carter Family, and typical traditional folk guitar approaches. It covers bass-strum patterns, alternate bass, chord-melody, syncopation, and related ideas. It covers both guitar accompaniment for singing and solo instrumental guitar.The attitude and style of the teaching is superb. I really wish more books would use this approach to teach many other subjects, including other styles of guitar.