Play Guitar, a new guitar method in two parts, offers for the first time the possibilityof learning both playing strokes (apoyando = rest stroke, and tirando = free stroke)either simultaneously or successively.Play Guitar offers a wide choice of compostitions and arrangements, which shouldgive even beginners access to the many stylistic ranges of guitar playing.Numerous illustrations with new perspectives make the technical proceduresclear and exact in an easily comprehensible way.Additional workshops deal with blues and song accompaniment.Part 1 starts with one-voiced playing, in order to promote an awareness of melodyand a feeling for rhythm. As Soon as the left hand fingers can be placed on thenotes with minimal force, and the right hand fingers have learned a stability and sureness when playing, from a technical point of view the typical guitar arpeggioscan be begun (this is an essentisl theme in Part 2)