Contents:

Fingerstyle Guitar From Scratch:

Part One: FINGERSTYLE BASICS 

Notation
The Picking Hand
Picking Philosophies 
The Overlapping Tier System 
The Fretting Hand 
Bass/Tier Combinations 
Practice with Arpeggio #1 
The Continuity Principle 
The Indiana Jones Principle 
More Examples 
Worst-Case Continuity Scenario 
The Challenge 
Other Meters: ¾ Time 
Other Meters 6/8 Time 
Back to 4/4 Time: “Estudio” 
Meet the Twins 
Other Simple Arpeggios 
Arpeggios with Longer Sequences 
“Allegro” 
3/3/2/Time 
20 Arpeggios: A Retrospective 
Mixing Quarter and Eighth Notes 
Meet the Threesome 
More Samples from the Field 
Game Show: “Scarborough Fair”
Bossa Nova: “Girl From Ipanema”

Part Two: TRAVIS-STYLE BASICS 

Travis #1: Inside-Out Mechanics 
Practice: “City of New Orleans” 
Travis #2: “Landslide” 
Travis #3: Outside-In 
Variations: Travis #4 and #5 
Picking Pattern Potpourri 
Triple Alternating Bass
Walking Bassline 
Travis #6: The Pinch Pattern
“Dust in the Wind” 
Pinch Variations 
Adding the Ring Finger 
Drop D and the Ring Finger
More Variations 
20 Travis Patterns: A Retrospective 
“Leader of the Band”
“Garden Party” 
Double-Picking 
“Helplessly Hoping” 
Travis-Style Departures
“The Dance”
“Blackbird” 
The Next Level: Melodic Lines 
Final Exam 
Our 20 Arpeggios at a Glance 
Our 20 Travis Patterns at a Glance

Travis-Style Guitar From Scratch:

Travistown
Solo Travis-Style fingerpicking
Fifth-string bass: The Am chord
Pinches
Sixth-string bass: The G chord
Scales over chords in the Key of G
Quarter note scales over chords
“Camptown Races”
“Oh! Susanna”
Scales over chords in the Key of C
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken”
“Red River Valley”
Songs in the Key of Am
“Amtrack Blues”
“God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen”
Triple alternating bass
“House of the Rising Sun”
Syncopation
Exercises
“Frere Jacques”
“Amtrack Blues”
Second pass through our favorites
“Camptown Races”
“Oh! Susanna”
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken”
“Red River Valley”
“God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen”

“House of the Rising Sun”
Picking patterns
“When the Saints Go Marching In”
Kicker notes
Chord tones
Third pass through our favorites
(same songs as the second pass)
“Ode to Joy”
Eighth notes
“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho”
“Buffalo Gals”
“Simple Gifts”
Bass runs
Slurs
Slurps
Fourth pass through our favorites (same songs as above)
New material
“Jingle Bells”
“Yankee Doodle”
“The Caissons Go Rolling Along”
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Key of A
“Mystery Tunes in A”
Key of E
Drop D Tuning
Parting gift