Designed for guitar students in their first or second year of study, Beginning Guitar, Book 1 presents more than 200 lessons in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format and prepares students for further studies in the remaining of the comprehensive RPM Guitar Method series. The book includes rhythm and solo guitar pieces in the syles of Robert Johnson, Albert King, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Chuck Berry, Bob Marley and others. The 382-page book is supplemented with these CD’s that feature audio representations of each lesson. Beginning Guitar, Book 1 provides lessons on reading rhythms and scales and improvising, slurring, picking and fingerpicking.