This is my lesson book. I started writing out these lessons in January of 2018, and decided to publish them in a chapbook. All of the lessons are handwritten. The cover artwork is by Vinny Golia and the layout and assembly was done by Tom Monson at Lithoflex.
Forward:
This booklet is a collection of what I like to call "rural" guitar lessons. Rural, meaning music to play on your front porch, with your dog next you and your beverage of choice nearby.
This book covers elements of blues, fingerstyle, traditional folk, gospel, American Primitivism, Raga, Bluegrass, slide guitar and more. The idea is to get the most out of your guitar as a solo instrument. But everything can be applied to group settings too.
Finally, these ideas are meant to be creative pushes into new territory. This isn't a songbook or even a technique book. All of these lessons are meant to be mixed together to spawn creativity in the reader.
Thanks for reading. Music power!
-RH
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