Amazon.com description: Product Description: This video is an encouraging 'self-tutor' that supplies the advice and knowledge of Ken Perlman's years of teaching experience. He explains simply and step-by-step how to play fingerstyle guitar. You'll learn to master the basic skills needed to play folk, blues, fiddle tunes and ragtime, as well as more advanced techniques like the alternating bass, pattern picking, hammering-on, pulling-off, and more. The video works best in conjunction with Ken's Fingerstyle Guitar book, the definitive instruction manual for both students and teachers that has become the fingerpicker's bible. 85 min. video.