Happy Traum’s – Flatpicking Guitar Method (3 CDs + Book Set)

Includes 3 CDs worth of instructional material and a book of chords and lyrics.

This user-friendly, comprehensive beginner’s series takes the novice player from the simplest basic chords and rhythm accompaniments to melody playing, bluegrass licks, runs, improvised solos, fiddle tunes and breakdowns.

Homespun founder and owner Happy Traum’s easy-going, well-structured lessons teach you more than two dozen songs and instrumentals, and will provide all the groundwork to prepare you for more advanced playing.

Even those starter guitarists who have never played this style before will learn to play these classic bluegrass and country songs: My Home’s Across The Smokey Mountains, Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad, John Hardy, Worried Man Blues, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, More Pretty Girls Than One, Wildwood Flower, Banks Of The Ohio, Wabash Cannonball, Bluegrass Breakdown, Columbus Stockade, Cripple Creek, Waterbound, Turkey In The Straw, The Eighth Of January, Billy In The Low Ground, Ragtime Annie, Arkansas Traveler, Sailor’s Hornpipe and more.