The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Acoustic Guitar Hitsteaches acoustic guitar the natural way—by having you play real acoustic guitar. It’s like having a friend sit with you and show you all your favorite songs. You’ll learn to play 25 classic acoustic tunes. For each song you get lessons, tips, techniques, full music notation, TAB, and chord diagrams. Plus, there is online media with full sound-alike demo tracks and our exclusive TNT software that lets you slow tracks down and loop sections for practice. We even included a short refresher course on the basics of music theory.

Titles: Babe I’m Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin) * Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) * Black Water (The Doobie Brothers) * Cat’s in the Cradle (Harry Chapin) * Coconut (Harry Nilsson) * Danny’s Song (Loggins & Messina) * For What It’s Worth (Buffalo Springfield) * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Green Day) * Hey There Delilah (Plain White T’s) * How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? (Bee Gees) * If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot) * Into the Mystic (Van Morrison) * Layla (Unplugged version) (Eric Clapton) * Life by the Drop (Stevie Ray Vaughan) * Maggie May (Rod Stewart) * Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffett) * Melissa (The Allman Brothers Band) * Moondance (Van Morrison) * Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac) * Peaceful Easy Feeling (Eagles) * She Talks to Angels (The Black Crowes) * Sister Golden Hair (America) * Take It Easy (Eagles) * Ventura Highway (America) * Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd).

Contents

For What It’s Worth – Stephen Stills (composer)
Melissa – Gregg Allman (composer); Steve Alaimo (composer)
If You Could Read My Mind – Gordon Lightfoot (composer)
Margaritaville – Jimmy Buffett (composer)
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart – Barry Gibb (composer); Robin Gibb (composer)
Never Going Back Again – Lindsey Buckingham (composer)
Cat’s in the Cradle – Harry Chapin (composer); Sandy Chapin (composer)
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Billie Joe Armstrong (composer); Frank E. Wright III (composer); Michael Pritchard (composer)
Into the Mystic – Van Morrison (composer)
Moondance – Van Morrison (composer)
Ventura Highway – Dewey Bunnell (composer)
Black Water – Patrick Simmons (composer)
Sister Golden Hair – Gerry Beckley (composer)
Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell (composer)
Danny’s Song – Kenny Loggins (composer)
Coconut – Harry Nilsson (composer)
Maggie May – Rod Stewart (composer); Martin Quittenton (composer)
She Talks to Angels – Chris Robinson (composer); Rich Robinson (composer)
Take It Easy – Glenn Frey (composer); Jackson Browne (composer)
Peaceful Easy Feeling – Jack Tempchin (composer)
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You – Jimmy Page (composer); Robert Plant (composer); Anne Bredon (composer)
Layla (Unplugged) – Eric Clapton (composer); Jim Gordon (composer)
Wish You Were Here – David Gilmour (composer); Roger Waters (composer)
Life by the Drop – Doyle Bramhall (composer); Barbara Logan (composer)
Hey There Delilah – Tom Higgenson (composer)