Are you ready to finally learn guitar?

We've been serving acoustic guitarists with instruction, inspiration, and advice for more than 30 years — and we know what works.

You want to get started on the right foot, with an expert teacher, playing songs you know and love.

Our comprehensive approach, with graded lessons and dozens of classic songs, is the one tool you need to get started. Let the Acoustic Guitar Method show you how easy and fun it is to make music of your own!

The Method

The Acoustic Guitar Method is the only beginning guitar method based on traditional American music that teaches you authentic techniques and songs. From the folk, blues, and old-time music of yesterday have come the rock, country, and jazz of today.

Now you can begin understanding, playing, and enjoying these essential traditions and styles on the instrument that truly represents American music:
the acoustic guitar.

Includes

130 pages with written instruction, notation and tab, plus accompanying audio instruction.

Songs you'll learn:

• Columbus Stockade Blues
• Careless Love
• Get Along Home, Cindy
• Sally Goodin
• Ida Red
• Darling Cory
• Hot Corn, Cold Corn
• East Virginia Blues
• In the Pines
• Banks of the Ohio
• Scarborough Fair
• Shady Grove
• Man of Constant Sorrow

• Stagolee
• The Girl I Left Behind Me
• Shenandoah
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
• Sail Away Ladies
• I Am a Pilgrim
• Bury Me Beneath the Willow
• Alberta
• Sugar Babe
• House of the Rising Sun
• Frankie and Johnny
• Delia
• Gambler's Blues
• Crawdad
• New River Train
• Sail Away Ladies
• Little Sadie
• Omie Wise
• That'll Never Happen No More

About Your Teacher

David Hamburger is a composer for film, television, and advertising and a performing guitarist/songwriter. He is the author of two dozen instructional books and videos, including the award-winning Beginning Blues Guitar, which has sold over 100,000 copies and been released in a second edition after 20 continuous years in print.

As a solo artist, David has appeared at Merlefest, the Philadelphia Folk Festival and the Old Settlers Music Festival. He has opened for Dave Van Ronk, Jorma Kaukonen, Rory Block and Roy Book Binder and toured the U.S. with Joan Baez.

Glen B. says:

"Every one from beginner to intermediate should be able to get something from this book. It can only enhance your playing as it has mine. It has even helped with some bad habits I have acquired over the years."

Michael Millham, Adjunct Instructor of Guitar, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA:

"An excellent method! Engaging musical examples combined with uncommon sense exercises (written from the perspective of the beginner's mind) provide for and encourage a painless learning experience. The acoustic guitar has a new diplomatic handbook in David Hamburger's text!"

Phil A. says:

"I have been learning to play guitar for a few years now, but got frustrated as I always seemed to reach an impasse. Even though I've only had this book for a few weeks now, it's been enormously helpful to me already. I would recommend this book to anyone who is serious about learning to play the guitar, or to improve what they already have learnt."

Sing Out! Magazine

"This is the teaching aid I would recommend to beginning and intermediate guitarists. It's the program I wish I had when I first picked up (and down) my six string many years ago. The program is detailed, entertaining, and a perfect learning device to inspire and imbue a fledgling guitarist with a wealth of easy to grasp guitar tips and a generous sampling of guitar-based traditional acoustic folk music."

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