This comprehensive book will take you through a colorful myriad of fingerpicking guitar styles. You will learn techniques, fills, intros and endings plus you will play some truly outstanding solos. Included are solos and etudes in basic thumb/fingerstyle, alternate bass, folk style, 3 finger rolls, Latin rolls, arpeggio style, accompaniment styles, transposing, use of the capo, fingerstyle lead. 2 beat bass, waltz style, Travis style, 2 string harmony, movable chords, thumb/3 finger roll, gospel, blues, hook lick, ragtime, hoe down picking, cross picking and more. In notation and tablature.

Types of Guitar
Strings
Left Hand/Right Hand
Chord Diagrams
Tuning the Guitar
How to Use This Book
Time Signatures
How To Keep Time
The Chords Used In This Section
How To Find The Chords
The Basic Thumb and Fingerstyle
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Goodnight Ladies/Merrily We Roll Along
Alternate Bass Notes/Skip To My Lou
Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie/He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
The Drop Thumb Double Strum
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
The Basic Folk Style
Sourwood Mountain/This Train
Little Brown Jug
The Folk Style in 3/4 Time/Amazing Grace
Basic 3/4 with a Moving Bass Line/The Streets of Laredo
Three Finger Rolls
Green Grow The Lilacs
The Erie Canal
The Latin Roll
La Cucaracha
Arpeggio Style
Aura Lee
Down in the Valley
How to Play in 6/8 Time/Silent Night
Pop Goes The Weasel
Bass Runs/Little Brown Jug
Some Accompaniment Patterns
Arpeggios and Rolls
More Latin Accompaniment Styles
How to Transpose from Male to Female Voice Range/Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
Worried Man Blues
The Capo
Shoo Fly
The Foggy Foggy Dew
Frankie and Johnny
Careless Love
Fingerstyle Lead/The Blues Every Night
Two Beat Bass/Hitting on Two
Caissons
Around Cape Horn
Right Hand Exercises
Frere Jacques/Pop Goes the Weasel
A Sunday Stroll
The Waltz Style/Easy Country Waltz
A Country Morning Waltz
Arkansas Traveler
Aura Lee
Thumb and Finger Picking
The Basic Thumb Rhythm/Alternate Basses
One - Three
The Oom Pah Thump
Adding Notes to the Chords/Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Thumb and Two Finger Picking/Goodnight Ladies/Little Brown Jug
Red River Valley
Syncopation
Blue Mountain Train
I've Been Working on the Railroad
John Henry
Two String Harmony/The Marines' Hymn
Some Thoughts on Chords
Upper Position Open String Chord Style/Open House
Jesse James
String Bending on Chords/Drakesboro Coal Drag
Rolls
Rolling South
The Thumb and Three Finger Roll
Rolling Down the Cumberland
The Company Store Boogie
My Old Kentucky Home
Precious Memories
Fannie Lou
Old Joe Clark
The Flop-Eared Mule
Finger Style Blues
The Blues Progression/The Basic Progression
Blues Rhythm
The Scale Used For Most Country Blues
Two To Go
St. Joseph Island Blues
Steady Bass Rhythm
The Half Way Blues
The West Bay Pines
A Blues Run
Some Variations on the Run
The Basic Run Can Be Played in any Key
The Hook Lick
Steady Hookin' Blues
Down and Out Blues
Long A Blues
Two Finger Picking with a Steady Bass/Blues for Mose
Muhlenberg County Blues
New Box Pickers Blues
Sixth Intervals
Dusty Road Blues
Mean and Low-Down Blues
Midnight Rain
The Sixteen Measure Blues
Sixteen Miles
Swamp Water Blues
Careless Love
Single String Blues
South Side Blues
The Bend
Right Around the Bend
Ragtime Guitar
Rainbow Rag
Trillium Rag
Queen Anne's Lace
Pipsissewa
The Entertainer
Hoe Down Picking
Single String Picking Exercises
The Eighth of January
Buffalo Gals
Movable Scales
Single String Speed Builder
Paddy Whack
Impression of Rapid Picking
Double Stops/An Ending
Chromatic Picking/The Galway Piper
The Pecdal Steel Guitar Style
Midnight in Nashville
Chicken Picking/Fingerlicking Good
How to Play Bluegrass Banjo Style on the Guitar
Rough River Hoe-Down
Alternate Tunings
Huron Cove
The Straits of Mackinac
Whip-Poor-Will Time