Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Explorations

Get to know the nuts and bolts of fingerstyle country-blues and other rootsy styles with this series of in-depth lessons by blues-guitar expert Steve James. Youll learn essential chord shapes and picking patterns in standard and open tunings, with and without the bottleneck slide, as well as a wealth of melodic vocabulary. Youll also discover how these devices work in a wide range of traditional and blues settings. All examples are provided in standard notation and tablature, with video downloads so that you can see and hear exactly how theyre played.

This comprehensive guitar method, songbook, and narrative anthology is available in two different formats:

• Book&Video Download package:80 pages with written instruction, notation and tab, plus more than 55 minutes of accompanying video instruction for all music examples, performed by Steve James, available todownload for free.
• PDF & Video Download package:Downloadable version featuring the complete written instruction (including standard notation and tablature) from the book, plus more than 55 minutes of accompanying video instruction, performed by Steve James.