This price-conscious Mel Bay Value Line book presents 150 fingerstyle guitar picking patterns for 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time - all based on the first position C-major chord. An explanation of the pattern notation system is given in diagram form at the beginning, followed by the patterns themselves. Includes alternate bass-note patterns, bass connecting runs, practice progressions, capo positions with their corresponding key relationships, a transposing chart, information on transposing progressions