Buying a guitar. What's out there? ; Acoustic or electric? ; Choosing your "axe" ; Choosing your amp ; Extra, extra -- Getting started. Tuning up and picking ; Your first chord ; A full "E minor" ; Two more chords ; A fourth chord--and your first tune -- Playing the blues. The basic "12-bar" ; "Dom 7" chords and riffs ; Blues in E major ; 8-bar shuffle -- The right hand. Pick or finger? ; Basic fingerpicking ; Picking and hammering-on ; Playing in sixths ; Picking tricks -- Exploring the neck. Scarborough Fair ; Open strings and shifted shapes ; The barré and the capo ; Harmonics -- Doing it better. Time for new strings? ; Electronic aids ; Recording your guitar -- Taking it further. The "Sus4" 88 ; Amazing grace revisited ; And finally ... ; The next step.
