The Flat-Picker's Guitar Guide
An Advanced Instruction Manual and Song Book
by Jerry Silverman
Oak Publications 1963


INTRODUCTION
TABLATURE
THE PICK, AND HOW TO HOID IT

SECTION ONE:Accompaniment With A Pick
        CHAPTER I - THE CHURCH LICK        
                The Johnson Boys (10)
                Willie Moore (12)
                The Storms Are On the Oceans (14)
                I Never Will Marry (16)
        CHAPTER II. - HAMMERING-ON
                I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (18)
                Brown Eyes (20)
        CHAPTER III - THE CHURCH LICK WITH THE BLUES WRINKLE
                Brown's Ferry Blues (23)
                Crawdad (24)
        CHAPTER IV. - A TYPICAL BLUEGRASS RUN
                My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains (27)
                Wagoner's Lad (29)
        CHAPTER V. - THE WHY,- WHEN AND WHERE OF BARRE CHORD
                Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms (33)
                Bill Bailey (34)
                Black, Brown and White Blues (36)

SECTION TWO:        The Solo Guitar With A Pick
        CHAPTER Vl - CARTER FAMILY
                Wildwood Flower (38)
                Columbus Stockade (40)
                Hard Ain't It Hard (42)
                Bright Shines the Moon (44)
                In the Pines (45)
        CHAPTER VII. - SINGLE-STRING
                Everyday Dirt (48)
                Mountain Dew (50)
                Cindy (52)
                Red Rocking Chair (54)
        CHAPTER VIII - CROSS PICKING
                Jesse James (56)
                John Hardy (60)

SECTION THREE: Other lands - New Techniques
        CHAPTER IX. - SYNCOPATION IN THE CARIBBEAN
                Que Bonita Bandera (64)
                Love Alone (66)
        CHAPTER X. - FANCY STEPPES - THE UNORTHODOX CHURCH LICK
                On a Raven Black Horse (68)        
        CHAPTER XI. - RHYTHMIC AND MELODIC PATTERNS IN 7/8 TIME
                Samyotisa (72)
                Yovano (74)

SECTION FOUR: Songs To Polish Your Technique On
                Skillet Good and Greasy (78)
                Little Maggie (80)
                Flop-Eared Mule (83)
                Reuben's Train (86)
                Under the Double Eagle (88)
                Stewball (90)
                Farther Along (92)
                Deep-River Blues (94)
CHORD CHART