Three-time national flatpicking champion Steve Kaufman teaches you the easy way to fret a note, how to read chord charts and play all the basic chords, basic bluegrass strumming patterns, bass runs and walks, hammer-ons and pull-offs, read tablature, picking lead, crosspicking, practice techniques, and more.

A comprehensive method for learning to play guitar in the bluegrass flatpicking style. The first part includes tuning, reading notation and tablature, learning chords, bass runs, left and right hand techniques, plus short pieces and studies. The second part offers dozens of progressively arranged solos.

Flatpicking Guitar Songs Book by Bert Casey shows the secrets of playing bluegrass lead guitar. Includes exciting, accurate arrangements to popular songs and is written in both tablature and standard music notation. There are 29 breaks for 12 songs, and each break is played both slow and fast on the CD.