The book serves as a method for learning the lute.

It includes:
- rhythmic and melodic exercises
- charts with all the chords
- detailed theory on the structure and melodic development of all folk modes and references to the corresponding maqams
- tablatures and suggested fingerings for performing all folk modes from all natural bases
- open and closed positions in horizontal and vertical development on the fretboard
- sheet music of songs, characteristic for each folk mode
- a separate chapter on the rhythms of all regions of Greece with sheet music of characteristic tunes from each region
- a text on the construction of the lute by the luthier Yiannis Alexandris
- a text on sound recording by Nikos Papazoglou
- historical information