Song List:
Here's What Folks Are Saying
About the Author
Chapter One: Why Write a Guitar Workshop Book?
Chapter Two: Questions
Chapter Three: Selecting a Guitar
Chapter Four: The 12-String Guitar
Chapter Five: String Gauges/Options
Chapter Six: Capos
Chapter Seven: Slide and Techniques for Playing Slide
Chapter Eight: Practice Routine
Chapter Nine: Burnout, Inspiration, and Rekindling
Chapter Ten: Influences
Chapter Eleven: Composing
Chapter Twelve: Education Background
Chapter Thirteen: Amplification of an Acoustic Guitar
Chapter Fourteen: What Is It Like to Perform Live?
Chapter Fifteen: Studio Tips
Chapter Sixteen: Touring Tips and Road Stories
Chapter Seventeen: Alternate Tunings
Master Tuning Diagram
Chapter Eighteen: Fingernails and Fingerpicks
Chapter Nineteen: Speed Playing
Chapter Twenty: Don't You Run Out of Breath and Get Tense?
Chapter Twenty One: Right-Hand Attack and Position
Chapter Twenty Two: Words of Encouragement
Chapter Twenty Three: Picking Pattern Study Notes
Chapter Twenty Four: Historical Notes
Arpeggio Exercise
Tremolo Exercise
Picking Patterns
Extra Patterns
Echoing Gilewitz Patterns
Echoing Gilewitz
Maison Blanche Patterns
The Maison Blanche Exit Song
Mrs. Firecracker's Patterns
Mrs. Firecracker's Place
Pre-Dawn Mourning
Jamaicalina
Bilingual Fantasy
Gypsy Minor/Dirt to Dust