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title: Guitar (Acoustic)
description: The acoustic guitar is a hollow-bodied string instrument. You will understand chord shapes, strumming patterns, fingerpicking techniques, and basic music theory to play rhythm and melody in folk, pop, and classical styles.
category: music-audio
subcategory: instrument-training
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/guitar-acoustic
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# Guitar (Acoustic)

The acoustic guitar is a hollow-bodied string instrument. You will understand chord shapes, strumming patterns, fingerpicking techniques, and basic music theory to play rhythm and melody in folk, pop, and classical styles.

## Available Resources

4 Books • 1 Courses

## Books

### 1. Guitar Fretboard Workbook (2nd Edition)

**Author:** Barrett Tagliarino

Musicians Institute workbook mapping intervals, scales, triads and chord shapes across the whole neck through written exercises. After completing it a player can construct any scale or chord in any position without reading standard notation.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.halleonard.com/product/695712/guitar-fretboard-workbook-2nd-edition

**Tags:** guitar, fretboard, music-theory, scales, chords

### 2. Pumping Nylon: Complete (Second Edition)

**Author:** Scott Tennant

The standard conservatory technique handbook for nylon-string guitar: a daily warm-up routine, Giuliani's right- and left-hand studies, Tarrega arpeggio studies and nail-shaping guidance. After it you can execute controlled arpeggios, tremolo, slurs and fast scales with efficient mechanics.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1470635178?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** classical-guitar, nylon-string, technique, right-hand, exercises

### 3. The Art of Contemporary Travis Picking

**Author:** Mark Hanson

A 64-page method for alternating-bass fingerpicking, with fourteen progressive solos in notation and tablature plus streaming audio. After it you can keep an independent thumb bassline running under a melody in the folk and pop style of Paul Simon or James Taylor.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0936799323?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** fingerpicking, travis-picking, acoustic-guitar, folk, tablature

### 4. Classical Guitar Method Volume 1 (free PDF)

**Author:** Bradford Werner

A free 102-page method book with companion video lessons, teaching classical and fingerstyle guitar through graded solos and duets. Covers posture, both-hand technique, standard notation reading, rhythm and first-position fretboard knowledge, playable on nylon- or steel-string instruments.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1792936303?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** classical-guitar, beginner-method, sight-reading, fingerstyle, free-resource

## Youtubes

### 1. Paul Davids (YouTube channel)

**Author:** Paul Davids

Lesson videos from a Rotterdam Conservatory graduate covering fingerstyle arrangements, chord voicings, right-hand dynamics, tone and song breakdowns, aimed at players past the beginner stage who want cleaner technique and acoustic parts that sound like the record.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/@PaulDavids

**Tags:** guitar, acoustic-guitar, fingerstyle, technique, video-lessons

### 2. Absolutely Understand Guitar (full 32-lesson video program)

**Author:** Scotty West

Thirty-two hour-long lessons teaching applied music theory, fretboard mapping, technique and ear training in a fixed sequence. After working through the series you can build chords and scales anywhere on the neck and explain why progressions and keys work.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJwa8GA7pXCWAnIeTQyw_mvy1L7ryxxPH

**Tags:** guitar, music-theory, fretboard, ear-training, video-course

## Courses

### 1. JustinGuitar Beginner Guitar Course (Grade 1)

**Author:** Justin Sandercoe

A free eight-module video course covering the essential open chords, fast chord changes, strumming patterns, capo use, dynamics and 6/8 time. After Grade 1 you can play complete songs with clean changes and steady rhythm on an acoustic.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.justinguitar.com/classes/beginner-guitar-course-grade-one

**Tags:** guitar, beginner, chords, strumming, acoustic-guitar

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