Fear of Guitar

Publisher Marketing: Fear of Guitar is a common sense introductory guitar method that will teach you a vocabulary of chords, and rhythms, in a variety of styles, plus lots of songs. You will learn the "Nashville Number System," which will enable you to play in any key, and how to read guitar tablature. You will learn how to accompany folk, rock, blues, country, reggae styles as well as basic fingerstyle accompaniment patterns. You will learn how to use a capo, how to practice with a metronome, and techniques for learning songs from recordings, by ear. Fear Of Guitar is supported by free online video lessons. More than 50 songs are included, so you can put the tools that you learn to work immediately. Chord progressions for songs included in the book are: Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain -Boulevard of Broken Dreams -Brown Eyed Girl -Come Together -Come As You Are -Crazy -Dock of The Bay -Don't Stop Believing -Don't Think Twice It's All Right -Every Breath You Take -Folsom River Blues -Free Bird -Friend of The Devil -Get Back -Halleluiah -Heart Of Gold -Hotel California -House of The Rising Sun -I'm Yours -I Heard It Through The Grapevine -I Walk The Line -Knocking On Heaven's Door -Lay Down Sally -Leaving on a Jet Plane -Let It Be -Love Story -Margaritaville -My Girl -No Woman No Cry -Nine Crimes -Norwegian Wood -One Love -Ring Of Fire -Rocky Top -Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms -She Will Be Loved -Stand By Me -Sweet Child Of Mine -Sweet Baby James -Sweet Home Alabama -Tangled Up In Blue -Take Me Home Country Roads -Teach Your Children -Tears on My Guitar -Tears of Heaven -Time of Your Life -This Land Is Your Land -Wagon Wheel -What Makes You Beautiful -Wish You Were Here -With Or Without You -You Are My Sunshine Contributor Bio:  Mealy, Peter Peter Mealy is a guitarist and singer who has been performing and teaching since the 1970's. He has managed Picker's Supply, a stringed instrument shop in Fredericksburg, VA. since 1980, and has toured extensively with his wife, and music partner, Laurie Rose Griffith. He has won numerous awards for his songwriting, and has been a featured instrumentalist in the guitar workshops at the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and the Washington Folk Festival. Peter is the author of Melodic Fingerestyle Guitar, and has contributed articles and columns to Acoustic Musician and Bluegrass Unlimited. Peter and Laurie live in Fredericksburg Virginia with their daughter, Adrian. He can be contacted through his website: www.laurieandpeter.com