Players today have a wealth of instructional materials available that teach Bluegrass guitar methods and repertoire. These include books, CDs, videos (VHS and DVD formats) and Internet sites. We've organized this section learning objectives, as indicated in the navigation panel and the notes below.
| Learning Tips | Tips for practicing and learning |
| Beginning Guitar | Learning materials for the absolute beginner just starting out. These are recommended before jumping right into Bluegrass. |
| Bluegrass Guitar | Learning materials that focus on learning to play Bluegrass guitar |
| Flatpicking | Basic through advanced flatpicking instruction materials |
| Rhythm Guitar | Basic and advanced Bluegrass rhythm guitar instruction |
| Soloing/Lead | The basics for playing lead and techniques to improve tone and speed. |
| The Fingerboard | Learn how the fingerboard is laid out, how to play scales and chords, the CAGED system and how to play up the neck. |
| Carter Style | Materials that teach how to play in the Carter style |
| Crosspicking | Learning to play using the crosspicking method. |
| Building Repertoire | This section contains books and videos that focus on teaching you tunes so that so that you can build up your repertoire. |
| Guitar Method | Learn to play and sight read with a traditional approach regular notation only. |
| Virtual Jams | This page includes resources that will let you practice at home in a "virtual jam session." We've also included the "Ten Jammandments" here. |
| Learning Links | This section contains links to other sites on the Internet where you can find other useful information to help you learn Bluegrass guitar. |