Choose Your Axe!

🎸

Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 3

Introduction to sixteenth note rhythms. Eighth note bass lines.

Introduction to compound rhythms (6/8, 9/8 & 12/8 measures). Introduction to movable fingering patterns and Positions IV & V. More exercises and 114 song arrangements. (104 pages) Currently available in Notation edition.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction to 16th Notes
  • With Slurs
  • 8th & 16th Note Rhythms
  • 16th Note in Bass Runs
  • 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"
  • Tunes with 16ths 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"
  • Introduction to Compound Time
  • Song Arrangements in Compound Time
  • 6/8 Arrangements with dotted quarter-note bass line: "Sweet Betsy from Pike"
  • "The Coasts of High Barbary" / "The Bold Tenant Farmer"
  • "Filimiooriooriay"
  • "The Irish Washerwoman"
  • "The Shaver"
  • "The Gobby O" / "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" / "Morrissey and the Russian Sailor"
  • 6/8 Arrangements with quarter-8th bass line: "The Juniper Tree"
  • "Taking Gair in the Night" / "Paddy and the Whale" / "Cuckold's All Awry"
  • "Kitty Alone and I" / "Daniel of the Sun"
  • "Rio Grande"
  • "Dick Darby"
  • "Lincolnshire Poacher"
  • "Scotch Cap" / "The Tenpenny Bit"
  • "Ramblin' Blues" / "Sumer Is Icumen In"
  • 9/8 Arrangements: "As I Was Going to Ballynure"
  • "Roudledum" / "Up and Down Again"
  • "Silvermore" / "The Irish Girl" / "The Rocky Road to Dublin"
  • "The Dusty Miller" / "The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow"
  • 12/8 Arrangements: "The Little Beggarman"
  • "'Tis Not Lamenting Over Mac Siride"
  • "Dark-Haired Alan" / "Who Will Play the Silver Whistle?"
  • "My Dark-Haired Maid From Cornaig" / "Betty and Dupree"
  • "The Black Horse"
  • "Frankie and Johnnie"
  • Arrangements in Mixed Meter: "Cairistiona"
  • "A Mhic Iain "Ic Sheumais" / "Rothsay-O"
  • Changing from Simple to Compound Meter
  • Arrangements Changing from Simple to Compound Meter: "Blood Red Roses"
  • "Joe Bowman"
  • "Bitchon-Bitchette" / "Greensleeves - III"
  • "In Sheffield Park"
  • "Lame Lou's Lament"
  • Introduction to Movable Patterns
  • 4th & 5th Position Chords
  • Song Arrangements in Positions I-V: "Fisher's Hornpipe"
  • "Stealin'"
  • "Old Blue"
  • "Wildwood Flower II"
  • "Brennan On The Moor"
  • "Blow Away The Morning Dew" / "The Washing Song"
  • "Ragtime Annie"
  • "My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains"
  • "Going Down That Road Feeling Bad"
  • "Star of the County Down"
  • "Nine Hundred Miles"
  • "Two Brothers" / "The Jolly Miller"
  • "The Cumberland Crew"
  • "The Maid on the Shore"
  • "Scarborough Fair"
  • "The Days of `49"
  • "The Foggy Dew"
  • "Peter Grey"
  • "Joshua Fit de' Battle"
  • "Henry Martin"
  • "The Boys From Bluehill"
  • "Botany Bay"
  • "Merrily Kiss the Quaker's Wife"
  • "Duncan and Brady"
  • "Paddy On the Turnpike"
  • "Johnny Is My Darling"
  • "Once I Had a Sweetheart"
  • "St James Infirmary Blues"
  • "House of the Rising Sun"
  • "Down In The Willow Garden"
  • "Wayfarin' Stranger"
  • "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies"
$25 + shipping & handling

What's Inside

âš¡

Advanced Techniques

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

🎼

Complex Rhythms

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

🎸

Practice Exercises

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

Available Formats

📖

Physical Book

High-quality printed book with premium paper and binding. Perfect for practice sessions with Skip!.

💻

Digital PDF

Instant download PDF version compatible with all devices. Great for travel and quick reference.

Note: Available by special arrangement only

Order Your Copy Today