I enjoy listening to Billy Strings and folk / bluegrass music. I want to learn flat picking skills, chord progressions, and notes for jamming out to bluegrass music on my acoustic guitar. What is the best bluegrass guitar book to get me started?
Hal Leonard’s Bluegrass Guitar Method is easy to follow and fun. It seems good for beginner, intermediate, and advanced skill levels.
- Book/Online Audio
- Pages: 72
- Instrumentation: Guitar
- Sokolow, Fred (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
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Happy Traum’s Bluegrass Guitar is another great book to learn bluegrass music.
Even for a novice, this book teaches you to play folk music. There’s a lot of great, fun songs to play in this book.
- Book/CD Pack
- Pages: 128
- Instrumentation: Guitar
- Traum, Happy (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
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Hot Licks for Bluegrass Guitar by Orrin Star is a top shelf instruction book for learning bluegrass technique, style, and licks.
- Pages: 176
- Instrumentation: Guitar
- Star, Orrin (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 176 Pages - 01/01/1992 (Publication Date) - Music Sales America (Publisher)
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How do I learn bluegrass guitar?
If books are not your thing, there are many websites out there that can teach you bluegrass guitar. YouTube offers some great tutorials — some paid, some free.
What kind of guitar is used in bluegrass?
An acoustic six string guitar is used in bluegrass music — often times a dreadnought acoustic guitar.
Rooted in traditional music, bluegrass instruments are almost always acoustic, not electric. Additional stringed instruments include the banjo.
