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Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 4

Introduction to counterpoint and counterpoint bass lines.

Introduction to Positions VI – X. Exercises and 100 song arrangements (102 pages) Currently available in Notation edition.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Counterpoint
  • Introduction to Intervals: Parallel, Convergent and Divergent Motion
  • Parallel 3rd, 6th, 10th, 4th & 5th Intervals
  • Intervals in Convergent and Divergent Motion
  • Song Arrangements with Counterpoint Bass Lines
  • "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" (alt-bass version)
  • "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" (counterpoint bass version) / "Shepherds Hey - II"
  • "Reuben and Rachel - II" / "The Riddle Song"
  • "Cindy" / "Rose, Rose"
  • "Whistle, Daughter, Whistle" / "Simple Gifts - II"
  • "Barbara Allen" / "Gospel Plow - II"
  • "The Brisk Young Bachelor" / "Banks Of the Ohio II"
  • "Arkansas Traveler - II" / "As I Roved Out"
  • "Greensleeves - IV" / "My Grandfather's Clock" (simple, alt-bass version)
  • "My Grandfather's Clock - II" (simple, contrapuntal bass version)
  • "My Grandfather's Clock - III" (more complex, alt-bass version)
  • "My Grandfather's Clock - IV" (more complex version with contrapuntal bass)
  • "The Girl I Left Behind Me" / "St. Anne's Reel"
  • Song Arrangements with both Alternating & Counterpoint Bass Lines
  • "The Erie Canal - II"
  • "Finnegin's Wake"
  • "Hey, Ho! Nobody Home"
  • "Shule Agra"
  • "St. James Infirmary Blues"
  • "Scarborough Fair - II"
  • Song Arrangements with 8th Notes in the Counterpoint Bass Line
  • "Scarborough Fair - III"
  • "The True Lover's Farewell"
  • "The Old Cow Died" / "The Cuckoo"
  • "Bright Phoebe" / "Cripple Creek - II"
  • "Edward" / "Wildwood Flower - III"
  • "High Germany" / "Farewell, Nancy"
  • "How Should I Your True Love Know" / "Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill"
  • "Black is the Color - II" / "Rue"
  • "Red Iron Ore" / "When First Unto This Country"
  • "The Pratties, They Grow Strong - II" / "Rolling in the Dew"
  • "Blue Mountain Lakes" / "Miss McLeod's Reel - II"
  • Introduction to Higher Positions
  • Movable Patterns in 6th & 7th Positions
  • Song Arrangements in Position VI
  • "Sugar Pudding" (Take Your Fingers Off It)
  • "Ella Speed"
  • "Slipshod Boogie"
  • "Goin' Down That Road Feelin' Bad - II"
  • Song Arrangements in Position VII
  • "South Australia"
  • "Garryowen" / "One Morning in May"
  • "The Sporting Bachelors" / "I Once Loved a Lass"
  • "The Cutty Wren"
  • "Nine Pound Hammer"
  • "High Barbaree"
  • "Two Maids Went A-Milking One Day"
  • "Be Thou My Vision"
  • "When Can I Read My Title Clear?"
  • "Sailor's Hornpipe"
  • "The Lark in the Morn"
  • "Mary Ann" / "The Bonny Ship the Diamond"
  • "Home in That Rock"
  • "The Bad Girl"
  • "The Ship That Never Returned"
  • "Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon"
  • "Single Girl"
  • "Marching Through Georgia" / "Sally Brown"
  • "I'll Give My Love an Apple" / "The Lass from the Low Country"
  • Movable Patterns in 6th & 7th Positions
  • Song Arrangements in Position VIII
  • "Swing Low..."
  • "The Dowie Dens of Yarrow"
  • "The Red Fox"
  • "Sam Hall"
  • "The Next Market Day"
  • "Norah O'Neale"
  • "On a Monday"
  • "Blow the Candles Out"
  • "Dink's Song"
  • "Sally Goodin"
  • "Skibbereen"
  • "All the Pretty Little Horses"
  • "Elanoy"
  • "With My Swag All on My Shoulder"
  • "Fuller and Warren"
  • "Lord Rendal"
  • "MacPherson's Farewell"
  • "St. Louis Tickle" (DVR version)
  • "St. Louis Tickle" (B & S version)
  • "Were You There?"
  • "Johnny Come Down to Hilo"
  • "The Wearing of the Green"
  • "Men of the West"
  • "The Maid Freed from the Gallows"
  • "Flora, the Lily of the West"
  • Song Arrangements in Positions IX-X
  • "Deep River"
  • "Turkey in the Straw"
  • "He's Gone Away"
  • "Blow the Wind Southerly"
  • "Deep River Blues"
  • "Timber"
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Advanced Techniques

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