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A Fingerstyle Guitar Primer Song Supplement

A Fingerstyle Guitar Primer Song Supplement.

A Fingerstyle Guitar Primer Song Supplemen - The Song Supplement includes 5 pages of basic chords diagrams and Pattern-Picking arrangements of 54 folk songs.

(66 pages – available in both Tablature & Notation editions)

Table of Contents

  • Volume 1 - Easy Arrangements: "Railroad Bill", "Man of Constant Sorrow", "John Hardy", "Billy Boy", "Rose, Rose", "Going Down to Town", "Shepherd's Hey", "Go Tell Aunt Rhody".
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements with 3-Note C Bass & 6-String F Chord: "Wildwood Flower", "Red River Valley", "Barbara Allen", "Worried Man Blues", "Banks of the Ohio", "Pay Me My Money Down", "Putting On the Style", "East Virginia", "Bile Them Cabbage Down", "New River Train", "Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms".
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements with 8th Notes: "Oh, Suzannah", "I Know Where I'm Going", "Tom Dooley", "Buffalo Boy", "Reuben and Rachel", "Tarry Trousers", "Cripple Creek", "Hush, Little Baby", "The Water is Wide", "The Keeper", "The Eddystone Light", "Byker Hill", "Joe Bower", "The Rambling Sailor", "Arkansas Traveler".
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements in 3/4 Time: "The Silkie", "Stewball", "Fair Ellender", "The Four Maries", "Engine 143", "Santy Anna", "Danville Girl", "Rosin the Beau", "In the Pines", "Blackbirds and Thrushes", "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot".
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements with Dotted Quarter Note Rhythms: "Sailaway Ladies", "Old Joe Clark", "Blow the Man Down", "Yankee Doodle", "Greensleeves", "Simple Gifts", "The Cruel War", "The Green Bushes", "Scots Wha Hae", "The Three Ravens", "The Cat Came Back", "The Cotton Field Song", "Doney Gal".
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements with Syncopated Quarter Note Rhythms: "Willie Moore", "Michael Row...", "Soldier's Joy", "Everybody Loves Saturday Night", "The Midnight Special", "Shady Grove", "Banana Boat Loader's Song (Day-Oh)", "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn", "Guantanamera", "Salty Dog", "Lindstead Market".
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements with Bass Runs: "Duncan and Brady", "Oh, Shenandoah", "Cape Cod Girls", "My Gal", "Hard, Ain't It Hard?", "John Henry", "The Erie Canal", "Matilda".
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements with Slurs: "The Fox", "The Grinding Song", "The Sloop John B.", "Freight Train", "Greensleeves in 4/4", "Will the Circle Be Unbroken", "Rock Island Line", "John Riley", "All Night, All Day", "The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell", "Miss McLeod's Reel".
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements with one-note slides to 2nd position: "Pretty Saro", "The Lady of the Dainty Doon-by", "Rise Up My Darling", "Wagoner's Lad", "Rye Whiskey", "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair", "The House Carpenter", "The 8th of January", "All My Trials", "Katy Cruel", "The Banks of the Don", "Wondrous Love".
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements with Grace Notes: "Pretty Polly", "Sugar Baby", "She Was a Rum One", "Johnson Boys", "There's More Pretty Girls Than One", "Green Grow the Lilacs", "Silver Dagger", "This Train", "Long Black Veil", "At the Foot of Yonder Mountain", "The River in the Pines", "Rake and Ramblin' Boy", "Mountain Dew".
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements in 2nd Position: "Darlin' Corey", "Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier", "Cumberland Gap", "Dance to Your Daddy", "She's Like the Swallow", "The False Young Man", "Eggs and Marrowbone", "Queen of Hearts", "The Birmingham Boys", "Lady Gay", "I Am a Pilgrim", "Goin' Across the Mountain", "The Dawning of the Day", "A-Roving", "Gospel Plow", "Hurree Hurroo", "Delia Gone", "I've Got Peace Like a River", "Poor Boy Blues", "Bowling Green", "The Blooming Bright Star of Belle Isle", "Round the Bay of Mexico", "The Ox-Driving Song", "The Oak and the Ash", "Liza Jane".
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements with Triplet Eighth Notes: "Lonesome Valley", "Amazing Grace", "Momma Don't `low", "The Skye Boat Song", "Every Night When the Sun Goes Down", "She Moved Through the Fair", "All Night Long", "New River Train", "Take This Hammer", "Twelve Gates to the City".
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements in 3rd Position: "Ain't Nobody's Business", "Roving Gambler", "Careless Love", "Blow Ye Winds in the Morning", "Ladies of Brisbane", "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down", "Peggy-O", "I Went to Visit the Rosses", "Waterbound", "Alabama Bound", "Dabbling in the Dew", "Brown's Ferry Blues", "The Milking Song", "Let Me Fly", "Geordie", "Jessie James", "Red Apple Juice", "I'm On My Way", "Come Go with Me", "Flora, Lily of the West", "The Nightingales Sing", "Fishing Blues".
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements with Shuffle Rhythms: "Hesitation Blues", "Jug Band Music", "The Old Turf Fire", "Alberta, Alberta", "Sportin' Life", "Whinin' Boy", "Eileen Oge", "Stagger Lee".
  • Volume 3 - Song Arrangements with 16th Notes: "The Deer Song", "Groundhog", "Outward and Homeward Bound", "The Minstrel Boy", "Unfortunate Miss Bailey", "Devilish Mary", "On the Fens of Tredegar", "Down By the Salley Gardens", "Will You Go, Lassie, Go", "Sally Ann", "Going to Mass Last Sunday", "Silver Dagger - II", "Matty Groves", "Hoosen Johnny", "Dark-Haired Jimmy Owen", "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?", "The Trees They Do Grow High", "The Water is Wide", "East Virginia", "What Can You Do With A Drunken Sailor", "Rock About My Saro Jane".
  • Volume 3 - Song Arrangements with 16th Notes and 8th Note Bass Lines: "Sourwood Mountain", "Mrs. McGrath", "Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms", "Sun Don't Set in the Morning", "The Calton Weaver", "Set Down, Servant", "Leather Wing Bat", "Bruton Town", "Blues in the Bottle", "CC Rider".
  • Volume 3 - Song Arrangements in Compound Time (6/8, 9/8 & 12/8), Mixed Meter, and Changing Meter selections including "Sweet Betsy from Pike", "The Coasts of High Barbary", "The Irish Washerwoman", "Rio Grande", "The Rocky Road to Dublin", "The Dusty Miller", "The Little Beggarman", "Frankie and Johnnie", "Cairistiona", "Blood Red Roses", "Joe Bowman", "Greensleeves - III", and "In Sheffield Park".
  • Volume 3 - Song Arrangements in Positions I-V including "Fisher's Hornpipe", "Stealin'", "Ragtime Annie", "Star of the County Down", "Nine Hundred Miles", "Scarborough Fair", "The Foggy Dew", "Duncan and Brady", "St James Infirmary Blues", "House of the Rising Sun", "Wayfarin' Stranger", and "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies".
  • Volume 4 - Song Arrangements with Counterpoint Bass Lines including "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" (alt-bass and counterpoint versions), "Shepherds Hey - II", "Reuben and Rachel - II", "The Riddle Song", "Cindy", "Rose, Rose", "Simple Gifts - II", "Banks of the Ohio - II", "Arkansas Traveler - II", "Greensleeves - IV", "The Girl I Left Behind Me", and "St. Anne's Reel".
  • Volume 4 - Song Arrangements with Alternating & Counterpoint Bass Lines including "The Erie Canal - II", "Finnegin's Wake", "Hey, Ho! Nobody Home", "Shule Agra", "St. James Infirmary Blues", and "Scarborough Fair - II".
  • Volume 4 - Song Arrangements with 8th Notes in the Counterpoint Bass Line including "Scarborough Fair - III", "The True Lover's Farewell", "The Cuckoo", "Cripple Creek - II", "Wildwood Flower - III", "High Germany", "Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill", "Black is the Color - II", "Red Iron Ore", "Rolling in the Dew", and "Miss McLeod's Reel - II".
  • Volume 4 - Song Arrangements in Positions VI-X including "South Australia", "Nine Pound Hammer", "Sailor's Hornpipe", "The Lark in the Morn", "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow", "Sam Hall", "Skibbereen", "St. Louis Tickle", "The Wearing of the Green", "Flora, the Lily of the West", "Deep River", "Turkey in the Straw", "Deep River Blues", and "Timber".
  • Volume 5a - Song Arrangements with "Pulse Bass" including "House of the Rising Sun - II", "Rose, Rose - III", "The Sons of Liberty", "Hey Tuttie Tatie", "Johnny Comes Marching Home", "Pretty Polly - II", "The Irish Washerwoman - II", "Greensleeves" (in 6/8), "The Rising of the Moon", "Red Haired Boy", "Paddy on the Turnpike - II", and "Battle Hymn of the Republic".
  • Volume 5a - Song Arrangements with Counterpoint "Pulse Bass" including "The Bonny Lighter Boy", "The Three Ravens - II", "Iroquois Lullaby", "The Devil's Nine Questions", "Shady Grove - II", "The Coasts of High Barbary", "Lady Gay", "Matty Groves", "Johnny is My Darling", "Blow the Candles Out", "Tar Road to Sligo", "Wheels of the World", and "Joshua fit de Battle".
  • Volume 5b - "Dead Thumb" Bass Song Arrangements including "Motherless Children", "Momma Don't "low", "PB & J Blues", "Backwater Blues", "St. James Infirmary Blues", "Rollin' an' Tumblin'", "Baby Please Don't Go", "Key to the Highway", "Big Road Blues", "Black Snake Moan", "Trouble in Mind", "St. Louis Blues", "Crossroads Blues", "Sweet Home Chicago", and "Whirlpool Fool".
  • Volume 5b - "Dead Thumb" Song Arrangements with String-Bending: "How Long Blues", "Last Fair Deal Gone Down", "Walking Blues", "Hey, Hey", "Duncan and Brady - II", "I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down", "Bender Blues", "See See Rider", and "Sportin' Life".
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What's Inside

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Advanced Techniques

Master sweep picking, tapping, legato, and other professional guitar techniques.

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Video Demos

Access to exclusive video demonstrations showing proper technique and execution.

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Complex Rhythms

Learn odd time signatures, polyrhythms, and advanced rhythmic concepts.

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Practice Exercises

Hundreds of exercises designed to build speed, accuracy, and musical expression.

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