A Guide to Self Accompaniment on Guitar by Mark M McCoy

This is a concise tutorial to learn the basics of guitar accompaniment. It is well suited for vocalists and aspiring performers that have some beginner experience in their study of the guitar.

This is a concise tutorial to learn the basics of guitar accompaniment. It is well suited for vocalists and aspiring performers that have some beginner experience in their study of the guitar. It covers basic to advanced picking, strumming and finger style techniques, has a chord dictionary and left hand technique included as well.

Mark M McCoy is an accomplished guitarist as well as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger and teacher with a career spanning three decades in the Detroit area. Mark has also worked as a studio musician and producer on many recordings for artists such as the “Flaming Embers”with the hits “Mind, Body and Soul” and “West Bound #9”, Earl Klugh, Alto Reed (a member of”the Bob Seger Silver Bullet Band”), “Ivy Joe Hunter” of Motown fame, William "Red" Guest of “Gladys Knight and the Pips”, “D. Lee and the Edge”, “Lou Wilson & Today’s People” and many others. Mark has performed with many artists locally and nationally as well. Artists such as rock artist,“Mitch Ryder”,” the jazz group, "D.Lee and the Edge”,the classic oldies band, ” King Sweat”, the soul & gospel vocal group, “The New Birth” and the gospel artist, “Alicia Myers”