Folk Guitar Method Volume 1

Learn guitar "from the ground up": Parts of the Guitar, and how to tune it.

Basic technique – how to hold the guitar, how to pick it and how to fret it. Learn basic concepts of rhythm and an introduction to music notation on the guitar. Basic concepts of rhythm are covered. Then, using those elements read and play the notated music of simple folk song melodies. More rhythm "concepts" like ties, rests, eighth notes and more folk song melodies. Learn how to read chord diagrams. Then, chord diagrams of open-string major, minor, and seventh chords, and basic full-bar chord fingerings. Rhythm guitar slash notation and strum patterns. Chord change exercises and finally, play folk song melodies with "slash" chord, and bass & strum accompaniments. (90 songs – 86 pages)