Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 1

Table of Contents

• Introduction — page I-1
• Getting the Thumb Going... — page I-2
• Getting the Melody Line Going... Whole Notes & Half Notes — page I-3
• Quarter Notes — page I-4
• Changing Strings: 2-note rolls — page I-5
• Changing Strings: 4-note rolls — page I-6
• Changing Strings: 3-note rolls — page I-7
• Changing Notes with the Left Hand: 2-note patterns — page I-8
• Changing Notes with the Left Hand: 4-note patterns — page I-9
• 2-measure scales — page I-10
• 4-measure scales — page I-11
• Changing Chords — page I-12
• Songs I (Easy Arrangements): "Railroad Bill" — page I-13
• "Man of Constant Sorrow" / "John Hardy" — page I-14
• "Billy Boy" / "Rose, Rose" — page I-15
• "Going Down to Town" / "Shepherd's Hey" / "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" — page I-16
• "The Praties, They Grow Small" — pages I-17 to I-18
• 3-Note C Chord Bass Line — pages I-17 to I-18
• 6-String Bar F Chord — pages I-19 to I-20
• Songs II (3-Note C Bass & 6-String F Chord): "Wildwood Flower" — page I-21
• "Red River Valley" / "Barbara Allen" — page I-22
• "Worried Man Blues" / "Banks of the Ohio" — page I-23
• "Pay Me My Money Down" / "Putting On the Style" — page I-24
• "East Virginia" / "Bile Them Cabbage Down" — page I-25
• "New River Train" / "Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms" — page I-26
• Eighth Notes: Notes on a Single String — page I-27
• Notes on 2, 3 & 4 Strings — page I-28
• Eighth Note Scales — page I-29
• Songs III (Arrangements with 8th Notes): "Oh, Suzannah" — page I-30
• "I Know Where I'm Going" / "Tom Dooley" / "Buffalo Boy" — page I-31
• "Reuben and Rachel" / "Tarry Trousers" / "Cripple Creek" — page I-32
• "Hush, Little Baby" / "The Water is Wide" — page I-33
• "The Keeper" / "The Eddystone Light" — page I-34
• "Byker Hill" / "Joe Bower" — page I-35
• "The Rambling Sailor" / "Arkansas Traveler" — page I-36
• Playing in 3/4 Time — pages I-37 to I-38
• Songs IV (Arrangements in 3/4): "The Silkie" — page I-39
• "Stewball" / "Fair Ellender" — page I-40
• "The Four Maries" / "Engine 143" — page I-41
• "Santy Anna" / "Danville Girl" — page I-42
• "Rosin the Beau" — pages I-42 to I-43
• "In the Pines" — page I-43
• "Blackbirds and Thrushes" / "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" — page I-44
• Syncopating the Melody Line: Dotted Quarter Notes — page I-45
• Exercise — page I-46
• Songs V (Dotted Quarter Note Rhythms): "Sailaway Ladies" — page I-47
• "Old Joe Clark" / "Blow the Man Down" — page I-48
• "Yankee Doodle" / "Greensleeves" — page I-49
• "Simple Gifts" — page I-50
• "The Cruel War" — page I-51
• "The Green Bushes" / "Scots Wha Hae" — page I-52
• "The Three Ravens" / "Hurry Up, Liza Jane" — page I-53
• "The Cat Came Back" / "The Cotton Field Song" — page I-54
• "Doney Gal" — page I-54
• Syncopation II: Off-beat Quarter Notes — page I-55
• Exercise — page I-56
• Songs VI (Syncopated Quarter Note Rhythms): "Willie Moore" — page I-57
• "Michael Row..." / "Soldier's Joy" — page I-58
• "Everybody Loves Saturday Night" / "The Midnight Special" — page I-59
• "Shady Grove" / "Banana Boat Loader's Song ("Day-Oh")" — page I-60
• "The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn" — pages I-60 to I-61
• "Guantanamera" — page I-61
• "Salty Dog" / "Lindstead Market" — page I-62
• Bass Runs with Alternating Thumb and Fingers — page I-63
• Songs VII (Arrangements with Bass Runs): "Duncan and Brady" — page I-64
• "Oh, Shenandoah" — pages I-64 to I-65
• "Cape Cod Girls" — page I-65
• "My Gal" — pages I-66 to I-67
• "Hard, Ain't It Hard?" — page I-67
• "John Henry" — page I-68
• "The Erie Canal" — page I-69
• "Matilda" — page I-70
• Introduction to Slurs: Hammer-ons — pages I-71 to I-73
• Introduction to Slurs: Pull-offs — pages I-74 to I-75
• Songs VIII (Arrangements with Slurs): "The Fox" — page I-76
• "The Grinding Song" / "The Sloop John B." — page I-77
• "Freight Train" — pages I-78 to I-79
• "Greensleeves in 4/4" — page I-80
• "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" — page I-81
• "Rock Island Line" — page I-82
• "John Riley" — page I-83
• "All Night, All Day" — page I-84
• "The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell" — pages I-84 to I-85
• "Miss McLeod's Reel" — page I-86