--- product_id: 12434572 title: "Hal Leonard Folk Guitar Method Learn to Play Rhythm and Lead Folk Guitar with Step-by-Step Lessons and 20 Great Songs - Book/Online Audio" price: "6661 kr" currency: ISK in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.is/products/12434572-hal-leonard-folk-guitar-method-learn-to-play-rhythm-lead store_origin: IS region: Iceland --- # Hal Leonard Folk Guitar Method Learn to Play Rhythm and Lead Folk Guitar with Step-by-Step Lessons and 20 Great Songs - Book/Online Audio **Price:** 6661 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Hal Leonard Folk Guitar Method Learn to Play Rhythm and Lead Folk Guitar with Step-by-Step Lessons and 20 Great Songs - Book/Online Audio - **How much does it cost?** 6661 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.is](https://www.desertcart.is/products/12434572-hal-leonard-folk-guitar-method-learn-to-play-rhythm-lead) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description (Guitar Method). The Hal Leonard Folk Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning folk guitar. This book uses popular folk songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead playing in the styles of Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Simon & Garfunkel, the Carter Family, Peter Paul & Mary, John Denver, and many others. You'll learn: basic strumming; strumming variations; Carter-style flatpicking; bass runs; basic fingerstyle patterns; alternating thumb patterns; flatpicking solos; hammer-ons and pull-offs; fingerpicking solos; using a capo; I-IV-V chord families; and much more. Songs include: Blowin' in the Wind * Freight Train * The House of the Rising Sun * I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow * Leaving on a Jet Plane * Little Boxes * Puff the Magic Dragon * Scarborough Fair * This Land Is Your Land * Tom Dooley * Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) * and more. The price of this book includes access to 31 audio tracks online for download or streaming using the unique code inside the cover. The tracks provide audio demonstrations of each example in the book performed by the author. The files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. Review: Great intro to folk guitar! - I really love this book because Hal Leonard does a great way of explaining things without going too complex. This book will get you playing classic folk music, as there’s songs in here with lyrics and chords, there’s strum patterns, alternating bass patterns, and so much to learn. I am a big fan of old time American folk as well as 60s revival folk like Peter/Paul/Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, Dylan etc, and this book is so helpful in learning how to strum and pick the strings to sound more authentic to this style. I have both a steel string acoustic and a nylon string acoustic, and I find having both types of guitar are nice to switch between depending on the song. If you can have both types in your guitar arsenal, you’ll discover they each have their advantage and are indispensable to not just a folk guitarist but for almost any style of guitar. Chords ring out on the steel string, and fingerpicking melodies sound warmer and softer on nylon strings, so those two guitars and this book along with daily/weekly practice will have you learning in no time. Get this book if you want to play some fun, happy, simple folk songs and learn some classic rhythm patterns to sound more like a real “folkie”. It’s such a classic style that you can play almost any of these songs to a non-musician and they’ll know them by heart and beg you to play more to sing along. I couldn’t recommend this book any more, very happy. Review: Worth the price - My father started teaching me guitar when I was young, but he played mostly by ear. My ear isn't as good, and I needed more than chords and a couple picks patterns. This book is the perfect supplement to his teaching to get me progressing after a 20 year hiatus. Best of all, the songs are mostly songs I grew up listening to my father play. I tried Yousician and fenderplay, but didn't feel like I really learned or progressed. I wouldn't pay for either again. We lost my beloved father to a traumatic head injury at the too young age of 70. Picking up the guitar he gave me for Chanukah in the early 90s and this book helped me still feel close to him. Books and fingerstyle guitar, kids. Listen to the words; that's what he always said. Folk has the best words and the best finger picking. (This Chanukah, we Light One Candle for Bill.) ## Features - Book/Online Audio - Pages: 64 - Instrumentation: Guitar ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #770,568 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,284 in Guitar Songbooks #1,450 in Guitars (Books) #3,514 in Music Instruction & Study (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 Reviews | ## Images ![Hal Leonard Folk Guitar Method Learn to Play Rhythm and Lead Folk Guitar with Step-by-Step Lessons and 20 Great Songs - Book/Online Audio - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61neBYNQ-9L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great intro to folk guitar! *by S***R on February 10, 2026* I really love this book because Hal Leonard does a great way of explaining things without going too complex. This book will get you playing classic folk music, as there’s songs in here with lyrics and chords, there’s strum patterns, alternating bass patterns, and so much to learn. I am a big fan of old time American folk as well as 60s revival folk like Peter/Paul/Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, Dylan etc, and this book is so helpful in learning how to strum and pick the strings to sound more authentic to this style. I have both a steel string acoustic and a nylon string acoustic, and I find having both types of guitar are nice to switch between depending on the song. If you can have both types in your guitar arsenal, you’ll discover they each have their advantage and are indispensable to not just a folk guitarist but for almost any style of guitar. Chords ring out on the steel string, and fingerpicking melodies sound warmer and softer on nylon strings, so those two guitars and this book along with daily/weekly practice will have you learning in no time. Get this book if you want to play some fun, happy, simple folk songs and learn some classic rhythm patterns to sound more like a real “folkie”. It’s such a classic style that you can play almost any of these songs to a non-musician and they’ll know them by heart and beg you to play more to sing along. I couldn’t recommend this book any more, very happy. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth the price *by E***A on October 18, 2021* My father started teaching me guitar when I was young, but he played mostly by ear. My ear isn't as good, and I needed more than chords and a couple picks patterns. This book is the perfect supplement to his teaching to get me progressing after a 20 year hiatus. Best of all, the songs are mostly songs I grew up listening to my father play. I tried Yousician and fenderplay, but didn't feel like I really learned or progressed. I wouldn't pay for either again. We lost my beloved father to a traumatic head injury at the too young age of 70. Picking up the guitar he gave me for Chanukah in the early 90s and this book helped me still feel close to him. Books and fingerstyle guitar, kids. Listen to the words; that's what he always said. Folk has the best words and the best finger picking. (This Chanukah, we Light One Candle for Bill.) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Solid book. Good selection *by A***R on July 16, 2015* Very nice. 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