Play Acoustic

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Play Acoustic

The Complete Guide to Mastering Acoustic Guitar Styles

String instruments Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music

Author: Dave Hunter

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Language: English

Published by: Backbeat

Published on: 1st July 2005

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 252 pages

ISBN: 9781476852997


Introduction

The acoustic guitar is the instrument of the people and Play Acoustic tells the people how to play it. This detailed and beautifully illustrated book explores the history of the acoustic guitar, from the jazz age to the folk revolutions of the early 1960s and late 1990s to the current rebirth of bluegrass and the singer-songwriter boom of the past decade.

Content and Approach

Skilled professional musicians and experienced tutors coach the reader through 11 styles, using exercises suitable to novice players new to each style and working up to full pieces and advanced techniques. Entire chapters are devoted to folk, rock and pop, blues, country, bluegrass, jazz, and more, with detailed guidance through both musical notation and tablature, diagrams, and explanatory text.

Additional Resources

An accompanying CD also offers listening examples of the most crucial of these exercises, to help players master each style.

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