Flatpicking Guitar Basics Acoustic guitar Magazine. Explores the essential sounds of bluegrass and country guitar as played by Maybelle Carter and Jimmie Rodgers, and carried on by contempory masters like Tony Rice, Norman Blake, and Bryan Sutton. In these 10 lessons you will learn the basic rhythm, from the classic boom chuck to bass runs an embellishmets, as well as how to flatpick melodies and solos. Inc, exercises, licks,full songs in notes and tab with demos of everything on the CD.