Acoustic Guitar for Beginners with DVD and Two CDs

The Acoustic Guitar Primer Deluxe Edition by Bert Casey is designed to take the absolute beginner through the basics of playing both rhythm and lead guitar. Start off by learning beginning concepts like parts of the guitar, proper playing postion, strumming, chords, and how to read guitar tabs. Later you will learn how to play simple folk songs and then more advanced country and bluegrass songs and techniques.

This course features an hour of video instruction, music notation and tablature, chord charts, and audio jam tracks. You will learn to play 20 new beginner songs.

• Parts of the Guitar
• Holding the Guitar
• Tuning
• Using the Pick
• Proper Left and Right Hand Position
• Strumming
• Basic Chords
• Scales
• Bass Strums
• Alternating Bass Strums
• Down Up Picking
• Down Up Strum
• Bass Walks
• Hammer Ons, Pull Offs, & Slides
• The G Run
• Bluegrass Lead Playing
• Chord Chart
• Music Theory