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101 Fingerlicking Good Fingerstyle Guitar Accompaniment Patterns
101 Fingerlicking Good Fingerstyle Guitar Accompaniment Patterns Author:Larry McCabe This fine Red Dog Music title teaches 101 interesting and varied fingerstyle accompaniment patterns suitable for students, teachers, and working musicians. The patterns, which range from very easy to intermediate in difficulty, cover a wide variety of sounds applicable to popular music, folk, blues, country, and gospel. — Because this is a collec... more »tion, and not a graded method, it is not necessary to work through the examples in chronological order. Simply find a pattern you like on the CD and try playing it on your guitar. If the chosen pattern is too difficult, save it for later and try another one now. You will soon find that this sort of exploration is both fun and instructional.
Many fingerpicking books demonstrate all patterns in a fixed chord position, but this is not actually how we fingerpick in real life. A number of the examples here have moving notes that add interesting motion to the basic harmony.
Each pattern is played four times at a moderate tempo on the companion CD. A drum count-off helps the user begin playing with the recorded pattern on the correct beat. A helpful chord theory essay rounds out the book. Excellent for bite-size supplemental study in music lessons, too.« less