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Hello, my name is Christian Pahlke

Every beginner as a guitar player sooner or later wonders. I can play chords, but what next? Here is the answer. What you are looking for and need now is the rhythm (strumming and picking patterns).

A song consists of three components: a melody, the chords, and the rhythm. You know the melody of your favorite songs, you can find the matching chords on the Internet, so all you’re really missing is the rhythm.

With this book I’d like to show you those rhythms with which I accompany a lot of songs from many musical styles. Here, you won’t read anything about notes, musical scales, 3/4 or 1/16 time, triplets, fifths, thirds, amplitude or similar things. I'm not going to make this a musicology lesson. I will show you the rhythms that I gathered in a way that you can play them straight away and thereby can accompany endless amounts of well-known songs. At the beginning, the rhythms are partially converted into a counting method so that really every not-so-absolute-beginner can improve. Easy figures allow you to see at a glance what is important. All the interesting things are immediately visible.

If you can change chords without a problem then this is the right book for you. But if you still have to learn how to play chords then unfortunately this is the wrong book for you. You can find a lot of books in music stores that deal with learning chords. There, you can also find a lot of music books with texts and the matching chords. Here, you can easily apply these rhythms. I wrote this book so that you can continue right after having learned chords.There are easy rhythms like “Every breath you take" and there are complicated ones like Creedence Clearwater’s "Proud Mary". There are gentle rhythms like Peter Sarstedt’s "Where do you go to, my lovely?" and there are quite hectic but nevertheless really simples ones like Trini Lopez`s "If I had a hammer". There are rhythms for "La Bamba", "Country roads", "This is the life", "Bed of roses", "Oh Donna", "Silvia’s mother", "At the hop", "Keep on rocking me", "Young girl", "Summer Wine", "Indian reservation", "Sailing", "Black is black", "Summer of 69", "Sweet home Alabama", "Wish you were here", "Angie", "In the year 2525", "Let it be", "Love hurts", "I am, I said", "Easy living", "The air that I breath", "I was made for lovin’ you", "Let`s twist again", "Hotel California" and so on and on...