1969 BBC TV Hold Down a Chord Finger Picking Folk Guitar Styles Book 2

Hold Down a Chord – Book 2: Finger Picking, Folk Guitar Styles, a vintage instructional music companion published by BBC Publications in the late 1960s or early 1970s.

Author/Composer: John Pearse
Publisher: BBC Publications / BBC TV
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FINGER PICKING
FOLK GUITAR
STYLES
JOHN PEARSE

This tutor accompanies four BBC Television broadcasts Hold down a Chord, Fingerpicking, in which John Pearse teaches a variety of melody-picking styles originally developed by famous American folk guitarists. These styles which are basically very easy to learn will show the beginner how to enliven his songs with melody picking and help him to play solo guitar.

The series is produced for Television by Victor Poole.

The Television programmes first broadcast on BBC1, on Sundays from 1.45 p.m. till 2.I5 p.m. starting on 12 January 1969. (For further details, see ‘Radio Times’)

Drawings by Richard Hook.

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John Pearse (12 September 1939 – 31 October 2008) was a British guitarist, folk singer and music educator, who came to prominence in the 1960s presenting the popular BBC2 television guitar tuition series, Hold Down a Chord.