Lessons
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Rory Gallagher was a beast. Probably best known as an electric blues guitarist and singer, but he could also turn his hand to acoustic guitar, harmonica, mandolin and a host of other instruments. (Not unlike our own Seamie O’Dowd, who was heavily influenced by Rory.) This is a lovely little acoustic fingerstyle tune of his…
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A further exploration of the Travis style of fingerpicking. This tune uses the ‘alternating thumb’ throughout most of the piece, but the fingers deviate a lot from the typical patterns we have been using so far. I first heard this tune played by Doc Watson and his son Merle. (Listen HERE.) I worked out a…
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One of the first CDs I ever bought with my own pocket money was Pocketful of Kryptonite by The Spin Doctors. Two Princes was a huge hit at the time, and I wanted an album full of bangers just like that. I didn’t get it. The rest of the album was crap. The only other…
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Here’s a slow playthrough of my simplified chord chart for Wonderwall. Basic chord chart can be found HERE. This is a simplified chart, it doesn’t contain the full structure of the song, but the thre sections you need to learn (Verse – A section, Bridge – B section and Chorus – C section) are included.…
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A version of Mother Nature’s Son by The Beatles (well by Paul McCartney, really, John didn’t have anything to do with this one!) I’ve used the Travis technique in this playthrough. It’s not how Paul plays it on the original recording, but I think it suits the song nicely. At a few points in the…
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This is a playthrough of Dust In The Wind by Kansas. In the previous lesson we looked at the picking pattern used in the Intro of the song. You can use this right hand pattern for almost the entire song. The pattern changes slightly at bar 42, so keep an eye out for that in…
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Advancing the Travis Picking technique, with this variation found in the song Dust In The Wind by Kansas. This video demonstrates the right-hand picking variation, and plays slowly through the introduction of the song, which is the first eight bars (Section A – Intro) of the tablature file. The tablature for Dust In The Wind…
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Here are the basic techniques for the fingerpicking technique known as Travis Picking. Tablature sheet for the examples used in the video below can be found HERE
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A full-speed playthrough of Wonderwall by Oasis. This is an edited version, taken from the Rockschool Acoustic Grade 2 (2016) book. The book is no longer in use, but this is a nice way to practice the song nevertheless. The original is played with a capo on the 2nd fret, but for practicing purposes I’ve…
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