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This book is for beginning guitarists who want to learn to play fingerstyle country blues guitar in the styles of Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Mance Lipscomb, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Mississippi John Hurt, as well as their followers like Taj Mahal, John Hammond, Jr., Mary Flower, and Eric Clapton. It’s unusual in that it’s designed to develop awareness of style as well as the basic techniques and concepts, “feel,” and thinking that go into this style of playing. For this reason, it can be used along with other books, videos, lessons, and learning approaches, rather than instead of them. Many books and teachers teach you to play by example. This book is intended to get you thinking as well.
This book assumes that you already know your basic chord shapes: the chords on the first two or three frets in the keys of A, C, D, E, and G. It also assumes that you’re used to plucking the strings with your fingers rather than a flatpick, or at least that you’re willing to do so. That’s all you need to be ready to go. Most of the fretting handwork in this book is fairly simple, and takes place on the lower frets of the fingerboard. The emphasis is primarily on the sound and rhythmic security of the picking hand.
