ASAP Bluegrass Guitar is designed for folks wishing to become highly proficient bluegrass players. You'll be able to combine sophisticated left-hand fingerings with both simple and intricate right-hand picking patterns. Appropriate for beginning guitar players or more experienced players wishing to learn specifics and songs in the bluegrass style. With this book and the accompanying 2 CDs you'll learn the basics, single-note melodies, how to embellish basic melodies, embellish melodies by adding notes from the major scale, embellishing melodies with added chords strums, Carter-style playing, shuffle rhythm patterns, alternate bass strumming, the blues in bluegrass, intros, turnarounds and endings, using the capo, cross picking, improvising a solo, practicing effectively, and much more! Some of the more popular bluegrass songs you'll learn are: Billy in the Lowground * New River Train * Wildwood Flower * Foggy Mountain Blues * Clinch Mountain Blues * Red Haired Boy * Forked Deer * Bill Cheatham * All the Good Times Past and Gone * Blackberry Blossom * Temperance Reel * Salt Creek * Devil's Dream * June Apple * Black Mountain Rag * Saint Anne's Reel * Banks of the Ohio * Beaumont Rag * Salty Dog Blues * John Henry * and many more. Start playing bluegrass guitar...ASAP!