The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs! Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each lesson, learning the basics of the instrument and music reading while practicing the many exercises, concepts and song excerpts within. Must-know instruction so you can start playing right away, with a free online tuner and metronome! The acoustic guitar book, written in rhythm tab notation, features lessons on: guitar fundamentals, chords, strumming, arpeggios, time signatures, syncopation, hammer-ons & pull-offs, double stops, harmonics, fingerpicking, alternate picking, and scales & basic theory. Includes guitar parts from 31 songs: Body like a Back Road / Change the World / Dust in the Wind / Eleanor Rigby / Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) / The House of the Rising Sun / Imagine / Love Story / More Than a Feeling / The Reason / Someone like You / Thinking Out Loud / Unchained Melody / and more.