CHAPTER18

The Philosophies of Guitar Accompaniment

In This Chapter

  • Observing different guitar styles
  • Using different accompaniments with two or more guitars
  • Playing three “parts” on a single guitar
  • Exploring how to change from chords to bass lines and fills
  • Working on your string picking accuracy

Take any song you know and ask five other guitar players to play it. Chances are very likely that you’ll end up hearing five different versions of the same song, and they’ll all be different than yours. Some of them might seem very similar to each other with perhaps slightly different rhythmic strums or even just a beat or two that gets more of an ...

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