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FINGERPICKIN' GUITAR BOOKS
Get Started on Guitar by Chet Atkins Book/DVD
For beginners, from the master -- book/dvd combo with 12 songs.

B-99803bd Get Started on Guitar by Chet Atkins Book/DVD List $24.95
Our Price $22.50 
101 Easy Fingerstyle Guitar Solos
Solos for the beginning and intermediate player -- with CD.

B-99333bcd 101 Easy Fingerstyle Guitar Solos List $19.95
Our Price $17.95 
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Fingerstyle Guitar by Ken Perlman
Teaches beginning or advanced guitarists how to master the basic musical skills
of fingerpicking techniques needed to play folk, blues, fiddle tunes or ragtime
on guitar. 40 Songs. BOOK ONLY. 256 pages.
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List: $24.95
B-000081 - Fingerstyle Guitar SPECIAL $21.95
Companion DVD: 85 Minutes
DVD-000376 - Fingerstyle Guitar DVD ONLY SPECIAL $21.95
Fingerpicking Fiddle Tunes Vol 1 or Vol 2 BOOK/ 3CDs by Duck Butler
This comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips
and instruction implemented throughout the arrangements in this book. The three audio CDs give 3 full
hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction.
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B-20572bcd - Fingerpicking Vol 1 List Price: $24.95 SPECIAL: $22.45
B-20573bcd - Fingerpicking Vol 2 List Price: $24.95 SPECIAL: $22.45
Beginner's Fingerpicking Guitar Book/3 CDs by Fred Sokolow
this comprehensive and thorough collection of fingerpicking guitar lessons contains invaluable tips
and instruction implemented throughout the arrangements in this book. The three audio CDs give 3 full
hours of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction.
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B-20496bcd - Fingerpicking Guitar List Price: $24.95 SPECIAL: $22.45
Chet Atkins in Three Dimension Vol 2 BOOK by McClellan and Bratic
Mel Bay presents the much-anticipated second book in the highly acclaimed series that
showcases personal insights into the life and music of “Mr. Guitar.”
Volume 2 provides definitive transcriptions (many for the first time) of 26 of Chet’s greatest
solos and duets. Also includes rare photos of Chet at home and on stage.
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B-20839 - Chet Atkins List Price: $49.95 SPECIAL: $44.95
Guitar Journals - Fingerstyle BOOK/CD
Ultimate guide of fingerstyle tunes perfect for everyday use
Easy, blues, gospel, classic, fiddle, thumbpicking, patriotic, ballads, early jazz, Latin, Celtic, Ragtime,
DADGAD and contemporary styles all featured
Excellent for the student to professional musician
In notation and tablature with companion CD
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B-20895bcd - Fingerstyle List Price: $24.95 SPECIAL $22.45
Fingerpicking Guitar Excercises and Hot Licks
Contains 3 Cds (3 Full Hours of instruction) featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction.
Finger Strengthening Excercises, The Hammer-On and Pull-Off
Single String Runs, Counterpoint Lines
Blues Vibratos, The Syncopated Bass
Rhythmic Licks, Walking the Bass
Chromatic Runs and Hot Licks, End Tags
B-98505bcd List: $24.95
Fingerpicking Guitar Excercises Special $19.95
Mel Bay's 2000
Fingerpickin' Guitar
Arrangements in the fingerpicking style by
some of the world's finest Fingerpicking Guitarists!
A generous collection of challenging pieces by these talented artists:
Jonathan Adams, Muriel Anderson, Seth Austen, D. R. Auten, Douglas Back, Duck Baker, Steve Baughman, William Bay, Pierre Bensusan, Larry Bolles, Ben Bolt, Bill Brennan, Thom Bresh, Rolly Brown, Robin Bullock, Jonathan Burchfield, Michael Chapdelaine, Mike Christiansen, William Coulter, Marcel Dadi, Peppino D'Agostino, Craig Dobbins, Pat Donohue, Doyle Dykes, Steven Eckels, Tim Farrell, Peter Finger, Tommy Flint, Rick Foster, Stefan Grossman, Ole Halén, Todd Hallawell, Roger Hudson, Jack Jezzro, Buster B. Jones, Laurence Juber, Phil Keaggy, Pat Kirtley, Jean-Felix Lalanne, Jay Leach, Paul Lolax, Woody Mann, Dennis McCorkle, El McMeen, Dale Miller, Franco Morone, Stevan Pasero, Ken Perlman, Al Petteway, Bill Piburn, Chris Proctor, Harvey Reid, John Renbourn, Don Ross, Vincent Sadovsky, Dylan Schorer, John
Sherman, Martin Simpson, Johnny Smith, Fred Sokolow, Tim Sparks, John Standefer, David Surette, Guy Van Duser, Al Viola, Paul Yandell, Andrew York, and John Zaradin. Written in standard notation with tablature for most pieces. 408 pages.
B-98370BCD Book/3-CD Set List: $39.95...YOUR
PRICE: $31.97
You Can Teach Yourself Fingerpicking Guitar by Tommy Flint.
A variety of styles taught in tablature with notation.
Eclectic guitarist and veteran Mel Bay author Tommy Flint provides a
comprehensive introduction to fingerstyle guitar technique.Learn to play
the guitar without the advantage of having a teacher. Clear photographs,
diagrams, and standard and tab notation will guide you every step of the
way. Original fingerstyle tunes and arrangements of folk standards
abound in this book, driving home concepts of music theory, technique,
syncopation, walking bass, barre chords, slurs, moveable chords, use of
the capo, the Nashville number system, and much more.
Click to see Song Contents
B-96498bcd Book and CD $19.95 
The Guitar Book by Pierre Bensusan
This book is for guitarists who are already familiar with the
instrument. The first section of this book is worth the price by
itself. Hand exercises, picks, nail care, natural harmonics, harp
effect, interpretation and much more are discussed. The compositions
primarily use the DADGAD tuning, and are at an intermediate-advanced
level. 187 pages. Songs are in Notation and Tablature.
B-699072 Book: $19.95 
Country Blues For Fingerstyle Guitar by Eddie Collins
Learn the fingerstyle used by players such as Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs. The techniques described are similar to those of
Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, and Mississippi John Hurt. The work is based on the author's own personal style with arrangements
presented in tablature form. Some of the topics included are: playing in standard and open tunings, moving bass lines,
developing syncopation, and creating your own arrangements. In addition to country blues standards, such as "Freight Train"
and "Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor," bluegrass fans will appreciate the arrangements of songs commonly played in flatpick
guitar style, such as "Beaumont Rag" and "Sitting On Top Of The World." The accompanying CD demonstrates all of the tunes
and breaks down many difficult phrases. 66 pages
B-EC-CBFG Book and CD: $19.95
FINGERPICKIN' STYLES FOR GUITAR
by Happy Traum
16 of the most important fingerpicking techniques.
Includes transcriptions in the appropriate styles. Standard notation and
tablature. 71 pages.
B-61051b - BOOK: $12.95
Fingerpicking Guitar Exercises & Hot Licks by Stefan Grossman
The first of a new series of lessons as part of Stefan Grossman's
Guitar Workshop Audio Series. This book offers an extensive compilation
of finger- picking guitar lessons. Lessons address: finger strengthening
exercises, the hammer-on and pull- off, single-string runs, and
counterpoint lines, blues vibrato, and syncopated bass and rhythmic
licks; plus walking bass lines, chromatic runs, hot licks and end tags.
Written in standard notation and tablature with a complete explanation
of the tab system. Includes 3 CD's.
B-98505bcd Book/3-CD Set $24.95 
GOSPEL GUITAR - FINGERPICKIN' &
TRAVIS STYLE by Fred Sokolow
Each song written 3 ways, 3 keys. Includes: Will
the Circle Be Unbroken, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Do Lord; It's Me,
Oh, Lord, When the Saints Go Marching In, and many more.
B-695372 - BOOK: $7.95
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