When it comes to learning to play the guitar, getting started is usually the hardest part. This book makes it as easy as humanly possible, via FAME (Fast Acoustic-guitar Mastery by Example) method which combines music scores, audio and video to help you start playing great tunes quickly.

By the time you finish the book, you'll be able to read the sheet music, hold the guitar properly, apply the picking and strumming techniques, and play the beautiful tunes that everyone loves to hear: Santa Lucia Henry Martin Morning has Broken After the Rain The Waltz Russian Traditional French Traditional Quare Bungle Rue The Mulberry Bush Sur Le Pont D'Avignon Lilli Malaguena

Traditionally, learning to read the sheet music is hard, and perfecting your technique takes lots of practice.

To fast-track your learning to the point when you can easily play complex melodies quickly, this book is more than just a book. It is an entire course comprising: Music scores High-quality studio-made audio files, and High-definition videos demonstrating the pieces and the techniques at normal speed and step-by-step.

What binds it together is the FAME (Fast Acoustic-guitar Mastery by Example) method for the rapid guitar mastery, developed by Dr Alex Davidovic and Professor Milan Mitic. The FAME method works in classroom situations with a teacher, or in one-on-one training with an instructor, or when you learn on your own. In any case, it makes it possible to play the great tunes that students typically learn after 2 or 3 years of music school in a matter of weeks. It truly is the closest you'll ever come to a 'magic bullet'.

FAME is a simple, straightforward and highly efficient 4-step method: Listen
Listen to the studio recording and visualize playing it. Watch
Watch the video while skimming over the sheet music, the left hand and the right hand technique. Do
Watch the step-by-step slow-motion part of the video with the sheet music in front of you, and learn the whole song, bit by bit, and Repeat
Practice until it's perfect

Learn to play the following nursery rhymes: ABC Song, Alouette, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Bingo was His Name-o, Chicken Dance, Clementine, Drunken Sailor, Sod Save the Queen, Happy Birthday, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, Hickory Dickory Dock, Humpty Dumpty, If you're Happy, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Jack & Jill, Little Miss Muffet, London Bridge, Mary Had a Little Lamb, My Bonnie, Oh Susanna, Old MacDonald, Pop Goes the Weasel, Rockabye Baby, Row Row Row Your Boat, Six Little Ducks, Skip to My Lou, Ten Little Indians, The Finger Family, The Wheels on the Bus, This Old Man, Three Blind Mice, Twinkle Twinkle, Wee Willy Winky, When the Saints Go Marching in, Where is Thumbkin and Yankee Doodle.

Learn the following Christmas Carols: Cradle Song, Deck the Halls, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Greensleeves, Jingle Bells, Little Snowflake, O Christmas Tree, Silent Night and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.