by Wayne Erbsen        NEW!!!    

Book with Instructional CD $19.95

This FUN instruction book will get you playing forty old-time and bluegrass guitar tunes in no time flat! Wayne's many years of teaching guitar are evident on each page of this book. The instruction audio CD is complete with a whopping 91 tracks and the complete lyrics to all forty songs found in the book. 9"x 12", 80 pages. This book is guaranteed to help the beginning and intermediate guitarist. (How many books come with a personal guarantee by the author?)

Dear Guitar Picker: I'm currently working on a series of books on jamming in bluegrass style on banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and guitar. This will be the perfect follow up to Flatpicking Guitar  for the Complete Ignoramus. If you would like us to contact you when this book becomes available, email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Be sure to omit the "nospam" when writing, unless you're a spammer! Please let me know what instrument you're most interested in learning to jam on. If you have suggestions as to what you'd like to see in this book, by all means, let me know!!! Thanks, Wayne Erbsen

You WILL learn to play: Amazing Grace, Angelina Baker, Arkansas Traveler, Bill Monroe's Shady Grove, Boogie Woogie, Bury Me Beneath the Willow, Cluck Old Hen, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Cuckoo, Darling Corey, Deer Lake Polka, Don't Let Your Deal Go Down, Down the Road, Flatpicker's Blues, Goin' Across the Sea, House of the Rising Sun, In the Pines, Keep on the Sunny Side of Life, Little Maggie, Little Rosewood Casket, Little Sadie, Little Willie, Man of Constant Sorrow, Muley's Daughter, On Top of Old Smoky, Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Rain and Snow, Red River Valley, Shady Grove, Shortenin' Bread, Soldier's Joy, Swannanoa Tunnel, Tater Patch, Train 45, Where the Soul Never Dies, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Wild Bill Jones, Wildwood Flower, Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

You’ll Also Learn... How to Tune, How to Hold Your Pick, How to Do the Rest Stroke, How to Play Solid Rhythm, How to Play Back-Up Chords to 30 Old-Time Fiddle Tunes, How to Understand Painless Music Theory, How to Improvise, How to Fight the Fear of Scales and How to Play by Ear.

Customer Reviews:

"I am very excited about this book. It truely brings history and reality together and made me proud to pick a guitar in bluegrass style-I am from the mountain region and everything in this book is true to the core-you really did your research! Thanks you!"  M Fulton