Old-Time Country Guitar Backup Basics

This instructional book uses commercial recordings from 70 different "sides" from the 1920s and early 1930s as the basis for learning guitar backup techniques commonly used in old-time country music. Covers: boom-chick patterns, bass runs, uses of the pentatonic scale, rhythmic variations, minor chromatic nuances, the use of chromatic passing tones, licks based on chords or chord progressions, more. Note/tab. 84 pp.