Lesson 20 – Pink Anderson’s Every Day in the Week Blues
Every Day in the Week Blues is a classic Pink Anderson song which can be found on Pink Anderson:...
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Lesson 19 – Jingle Bell Blues
It’s not even Halloween yet, so you must be wondering, ‘Where have you been with the lessons?’ and, ‘Why the hell a Fingerstyle Christmas song?’ Jingle Bell Blues.
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Lesson #18 – Cold Beer, Fingerstyle Fundamentals Wrap-up
At this point you should have a pretty good idea of how to develop your fingerpicking skills, applying and identifying chord shapes and finger patterns, and thumb independence.
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Lesson #17 – Freight Train Exercise
This is another simple yet strong, beautiful melody. This time we’re playing in the key of C. The song was originally penned by Elizabeth Cotton when she was twelve years old around the year 1900, and has gone on to be recorded countless times by various artists.
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Lesson 16 – Nine Pound Hacksaw
this is a new arrangement of the classic ‘Nine Pound Hammer’ based on Merle Travis’s version and played in the key of E.
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Lesson 15 – The Caravan Exercise
The song Caravan was written by Juan Tizol and recorded by Duke Ellington in 1937. Since then has been performed by thousands of artists in styles ranging from jazz to bluegrass, surf to rap, and everything in between.
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Lesson 14 – Applying the Fundamentals
By this point you should find your fingers becoming more coordinated and your thumb growing independent. This means it will now take less conscious effort as your motor skills will begin to take over the repetitive parts and you can concentrate on some of the more exciting aspects of your playing.
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Lesson 13 – A Few Chords and How They Work (Part Two)
The following chart shows five common positions for the 7th chord, the root is noted with a diamond (note: the numbers 1-5 across the top are there to identify these forms for our purposes, they aren’t the proper names).
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Lesson 12 – A Few Chords and How They Work (Part One)
The list of chords, their positions and inversions is pretty exhaustive and seemingly endless. Instead of writing a huge chart for you to try and memorize, we’re going to save a little time and space
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Freight Train Derailed
The song is still incredibly popular and has become a standard amongst fingerstyle guitarists. In fact, any picker worth their salt has an interpretation. It’s become the Stairway to Heaven of the acoustic guitar.
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Lesson 11 – Finger Patterns (Part Two)
Make sure you’re comfortable playing the previous patterns before continuing. Good, now it’s starting to get interesting. This next pattern is a variation on the first; you’ll notice there are a couple extra notes. We’ll continue to call the patterns E & A for now. Follow the procedure you used in part one to learn these.
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Lesson 10 – Finger Patterns (Part One)
This first pattern is demonstrated on the E major and A major chords, but as you’ll see it can be used over any chord combinations.
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