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Learning to Flatpick - Flatpicking Guitar Lessons 3 DVD $69.95

20 Gospel Tunes Flatpicking Guitar Lessons 6 CD Tab NEW $69.95

Flatpicking Fiddle Tunes - Guitar Lessons 6 CD Tab NEW $59.95

Tony Rice Guitar Method Flatpicking Lessons Video 2 DVD $59.95

Flatpicking with Doc Watson Guitar Lessons Play DVD NEW $39.95

Happy Traum Flatpicking Guitar Lessons 3 CD SET Tab NEW $37.50

FLATPICKING WITH DOC WATSON ACOUSTIC GUITAR LESSON DVD $31.99

FLATPICKING WITH DOC WATSON ACOUSTIC GUITAR LESSON DVD $31.99

GREAT GUITAR LESSONS - BLUEGRASS FLATPICKING - Homespun $29.99

New Directions in Flatpicking Guitar Lessons Learn DVD $29.95

Bryan Sutton Secrets Flatpicking Guitar Lessons DVD NEW $29.95

Pick Power! Flatpicking Guitar Speed Learn Lessons DVD $29.95

Blues Guitar with a Flatpick Flatpicking Lessons DVD $29.95

Easy Flatpicking Guitar Arrangements Learn Lessons DVD $29.95

Figuring Out Fingerboard Flatpicking Guitar Lessons DVD $29.95

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Learn to Play Waltzes - Flatpicking Guitar Lessons DVD $29.95

Flatpicking Banjo Tunes - Learn Guitar Lessons DVD NEW $29.95

Techniques for Soloing - Flatpicking Guitar Lessons DVD $29.95

Great Guitar Lessons Bluegrass Flatpicking DVD!!! $26.95

Great Guitar Lessons - Bluegrass Flatpicking Learn DVD $24.95

Great Guitar Lessons - Bluegrass Flatpicking DVD $24.94

Great Guitar Lessons-BLUEGRASS FLATPICKING-Homespun DVD $21.45

First Lessons Flatpicking Guitar [With CD and DVD] NEW $21.01

Flatpicker Guide Flatpicking Guitar Lessons Book CD NEW $19.95

8 Great Tunes for Flatpicking Guitar Lesson Tab Book CD $19.95

GREAT GUITAR LESSONS - BLUEGRASS FLATPICKING DVD TAB $18.95

Flatpicking Guitar Masterpieces Lessons Tab Book CD NEW $16.99

BEGINNER FLATPICKING GUITAR FIRST LESSONS BOOK CD DVD $14.99

BEGINNER FLATPICKING GUITAR FIRST LESSONS BOOK CD DVD $14.99

BEGINNER FLATPICKING GUITAR FIRST LESSONS BOOK CD DVD $14.99

Great Guitar Lessons Bluegrass Flatpicking DVD NEW! $14.35

Great Guitar Lessons Bluegrass Flatpicking [VHS] $15.94 This terrific compilation features basic to advanced lessons from some of Homespun's most celebrated pickers. After Happy Traum gives an overview of flatpicking, you'll become familiar with each instructor's teaching and playing style and expand your own guitar technique, as you master several complete tunes. Happy Traum - "Wildwood Flower" (new lesson); Nick Forster - Texas style back-up for "...

Brian Setzer: The Guitar of Brian Setzer $16.96 Hot Licks' The Guitar of Brian Setzer DVD gives you a chance to get a one-on-one lesson with Brian Setzer of Stray Cats! Brian shows you a whole range of rockabilly, blues, jazz, and country licks and tricks including wild string-bending techniques, slap-echo effects, jazz and swing guitar styles and some really hot solos that he breaks right down for you. Brian makes learning fun, so you'll reall...

DVD-Norman Blake's Guitar Techniques #1 $17.39 Legendary guitarist Norman Blake teaches flatpicking fundamentals and a variety of bluegrass and old-time country guitar techniques that have made him a hero to acoustic players everywhere. He explores arrangements for several favorite songs and instrumen...

DVD-Easy Bluegrass & Country Guitar $11.53 Here's an easy and fun way for beginners to play favorite bluegrass tunes. Happy teaches all the basic techniques and helps guitarists begin to build their own repertoire. He covers pick technique, elementary theory, song accompaniment, and how to play in...

Doc Watson - Flatpicking with Doc $23.77 Doc and fellow flatpicker Steve Kaufman trade licks and play duets, and Doc slows down some of his most requested songs and instrumentals so that learning players can follow along. Doc's breathtaking versions of classic ballads and bluegrass songs, fiddle...

Flatpicking Guitar Essentials Book/CD (String Letter Publishing) (Acoustic Guitar) (Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Private Lessons) $12.04 Learn bluegrass and folk with this book/CD pack featuring lessons by Acoustic Guitar assistant editor Scott Nygaard, award-winning guitarist Dix Bruce, legendary guitarist Happy Traum, and many others. Includes 16 complete songs to play: "Banish Misfortune," "Kentucky Waltz," "Sally Goodin," "Soldier's Joy," "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," more....

Flatpicking Guitar Basics Book/CD (String Letter Publishing) (Acoustic Guitar) (Acoustic Guitar Private Lessons) $12.43 Explore the essential songs of bluegrass and country guitar as played by Maybelle Carter and Jimmie Rodgers, and carried on by masters like Tony Rice, Norman Blake and Bryan Sutton. These ten lessons teach the basics of rhythm, from the classic boom-chuck to bass runs and embellishments, as well as how to flatpick melodies and solos. Features exercises, licks and full songs in notes & tab, with de...

Mel Bay Presents 101 Three Chord Songs for Country & Bluegrass Songs For Guitar, Banjo, & Uke (McCabe's 101 Series) $9.54 You need only minimal playing skills and three chords - G, C, and D7 - to accompany each song in this innovative book. This is the perfect book for beginners, casual musicians, and teaching studios. The book is absolutely bursting with an abundance of timeless standards, many of which are rarely found in print. All songs are made playable for folks who play for their own enjoyment. Melody, lyrics,...

Flatpicking Guitar Basics $13.54 Flatpicking Guitar Basics

Flatpicking Bluegrass Guitar $8.8 Flatpicking Bluegrass Guitar

Flatpicking Guitar Country Style: The Roots of Bluegrass $19.53 This dvd lesson will have you flatpicking lead breaks in styles from Maybelle Carter and Doc Watson. You''ll learn to embellish melodies with hammer-ons and pull-offs for that real old-time country sound, and build solid technique, advancing step by step through single-note arrangements of Thompson''s Rag, fiddle hoedowns Arkansas Traveler and Soldier''s Joy and a bluesy bluegrass break for Good Old Mountain Dew. Eric''s invaluable tips on left-hand fingering and right-hand pick technique are clearly illustrated in split-screen close-ups. A detailed tab/music instructional booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD.

You Can Teach Yourself Flatpicking Guitar $8.13 You Can Teach Yourself Flatpicking Guitar

Mel Bay's Super Country/Flatpicking Guitar Techniques $8.13 Mel Bay's Super Country/Flatpicking Guitar Techniques

You Can Teach Yourself Flatpicking Guitar $7.74 You Can Teach Yourself Flatpicking Guitar

You Can Teach Yourself Flatpicking Guitar $13.01 You Can Teach Yourself Flatpicking Guitar

Classics for Flatpicking Guitar $7.04 A collection of classical pieces arranged for flatpicking guitar, together with a few modern flatpicking originals in the classical style by William Bay. Includes works by J.S. Bach, Dowland, Handel, Krieger, Mouret, Playford, Praetorius, Quantz, Rameau, Sanz, and St. Jacome, as well as music by a couple of anonymous Renaissance lutenists-21 pieces in all. All selections appear in standard notation and tablature with fingering and suggested guitar chords when appropriate. The companion CD includes all of the selections in the book.

Flatpicking Guitar [With CD] $5.99 Flatpicking Guitar is a wonderful collection of 23 up-tempo, foot stompin'' tunes arranged for flatpicked guitar. Written in standard notation and tab, the playlist includes: Arkansas Traveler; Bile Them Cabbage Down; Fire on the Mountain; The Devil''s Dream; Listen to the Mockingbird; Old Joe Clark; Sailor''s Hornpipe and more. These arrangements can be played as solos or in ensemble. So grab your guitar, pull up a chair and start pickin''!

First Lesson for Guitar $5.99 First Lesson for Guitar

When I began trying to learn to play acoustic guitar everyone I asked told me I would never be able to play because I have rather large hands. This was truly discouraging, especially for a wide-eyed 17 year old flower child!

This did not deter me, however. I wanted to play so badly that I found a wide neck guitar that worked just fine; what a simple solution! Since that time I have discovered that many of the top guitarists in the world have one or another issues with their hands.

Django Reinhardt, the Gypsy jazz guitarist, suffered considerable damage to his left hand in a fire when he was 18 years old. In the hospital, he figured out new ways to play the guitar chords and was soon on his way again! Unbelievable tenacity and determination!

Doc Watson, the famous acoustic guitarist from the mountains of North Carolina, has such large hands that he frequently frets two strings at the same time. Not only that, he is blind and is single handedly responsible for making the flat picking style of guitar as popular as it is.

Joni Mitchell, the Canadian folksinger, plays dozens of different open tunings on her songs. This is because she was affected so much by polio as a child and later on as an adult. She had to find a way to compensate, and because of her determination, she found a way.

Andres Segovia, the famous Spanish classical guitarist, has very short, stubby hands. It nearly defies logic that he can play these beautiful songs the way he does with such hands. Yet, as his uncle said of him in his youth, “This boy does not learn, he remembers”.

This all goes to show that you do not need any special physical attributes to excel at playing guitar. What you really need is a keen desire. Like most things in life, if you really want to do something, you will find a way.

How to learn to play acoustic guitar

As stated, the most important element is a strong desire to master this beautiful instrument. Once you get the bug, it never really leaves you and every time you hear some good playing, you are stirred inside to continue learning. It doesn’t even matter what type of music you are listening to, if the playing is good, you hear it.

You need to get a playable guitar. Unless you are so poor that you have to make your instrument out of cigar boxes, like the blues artists of the past, you should be able to find a good quality guitar for around $300.

Whatever you do, avoid buying a cheap one. You will be shooting yourself in the foot, or rather the fingers. Your fingers will hurt, it will not sound good, and it will not stay tuned. That is, if you can get it tuned in the first place.

You also need to find some quality guitar courses, or instruction. You can find many good courses online, or at your local guitar shop. Taking lessons is also highly recommended, if you have the cash.

Your acoustic guitar needs a good hard shell case to protect it from the elements, as well as from the accidental drop that is just waiting to happen.

Make sure you get the best accessories you can afford. These will not make you a better player by themselves, but they are necessary anyway. A good tuner is essential, a humidifier is a must to preserve the wood, and a capo will make your life easier.

Take good care of your guitar, clean it regularly by using a spray cleaner made for acoustic wood. It is important to get good strings also, so your playing will have that nice ringing tone and clarity.