Do not buy a Dreadnought. This type of acoustic guitar tends to produce a boomy bottom end but lacks volume and definition in the top end. The Dreadnought is a great strumming and flat picking guitar.
Do buy an Auditorium, OM (orchestra model), triple O (OOO) [...]
Brother John Morris presents the monotonic bass style of fingerpicking as used by Mance Lipscomb, Lightning Hopkins and Big Bill Broonzy.
Baby please don’t go by Lightning Hopkins. Beginners level Arrangement by Brother John Morris.
Brother John presents a classic blues in A based on the playing of Robert Johnson.
This arrangement is in the monotonic bass style. It also has some syncopated and walking bass notes.
Please note : this book is for beginner Left Handed Guitarists. It would suit a Lefty who knows only a handful of chords and would like to start the fingerstyle journey.
Lefty’s Left Handed Guitar Chord And Scale Book.
This book has chord and scale diagrams using Lefty’s unique left handed grid system. It also has finger [...]
An introduction to slide guitar by Brother John explaining 2 ways of playing bottleneck slide guitar.
1. Single note style with right hand muting.
2. Used in conjuction with the alternating bass style where the slide plays mainly on the first string.
A simple version of Blind Willie Johnson’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine is used to demonstrate this [...]
