The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solidfoundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away,with a free online tuner and metronome! The acoustic guitar book, written in rhythm tab notation, features lessons on: guitar fundamentals, chords, strumming, arpeggios, time signatures, syncopation, hammer-ons & pull-offs, doublestops, harmonics, fingerpicking, alternate picking, and scales & basic theory. Includes guitar parts from 31 songs: Body like a Back Road - Change the World - Dust in the Wind - Eleanor Rigby - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) ■The House of the Rising Sun - Imagine - Love Story - More Than a Feeling - The Reas on - Someone like You - Thinking Out Loud - Unchained Melody - and more.