This is an essential guide for playing fingerstyle blues in open tunings, with and without a bottleneck slide. Acoustic Guitar magazine contributing writer Pete Madsen shares the secrets behind the styles

Here is a method that uses real songs to teach you all the basics of acoustic guitar in the style of The Beatles, Eric Clapton, John Mellencamp, Indigo Girls, Robert Johnson, James Taylor and many others.

Everything in this simple beginner's guide to music theory is geared toward the guitar so that you're able to apply the theoretical concepts directly to your instrument. Featuring hands-on activities like

This method is written specifically to address the needs and learning styles of children. Beginning with rote learning, imitation, and echoing, students will play and perform familiar melodies, strum

The FJH Young Beginner Guitar Method is a well-conceived graded guitar method designed especially for the younger beginner. Presenting one concept at a time, the method engages students with lively

This is a great song collection to teach young beginners to sing and strum on the guitar.  The collection includes 25 folk songs with a performance/accompaniment CD, digital resources, and links to

This revolutionary method combines solid pedagogy with a focus on real-world guitar skills such as strumming and fingerpicking, pivotal rock and blues riffs, improvising, reading music, and music theory.

This method was designed to meet the National Standards for Music Education, with features such as cross-curricular activities, quizzes, multicultural songs, basic improvisation and more.  Volume 1

This revolutionary new method combines solid pedagogy with a focus on real-world guitar skills such as strumming and fingerpicking, pivotal rock and blues riffs, improvising, reading music, and music

This updated and expanded edition of one of the best-paced and most comprehensive guitar method available features a new layout, making it easier to read and quicker to learn. Now included are blues,

These handy flash cards will help reinforce the concepts presented in the "Essential Elements" guitar method book. Concepts covered include: music symbols; musical terms; notes on each string; keys and