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1 able of ontents bout the uthor... Introduction... art : laying coustic Songs... 6 hapter : etting to Know the coustic uitar... 6 Lesson : arts and ositioning of the uitar... 6 Lesson : Naming itches... Lesson : uning... 9 Lesson : Music Notation... hapter : Warming Up... Lesson : he Four-Finger Stretch... Lesson : ounting Rhythm... Lesson : Strumming... Lesson : hanging hords...6 hapter : Songs in, and...9 Lesson : he rimary hords in...9 lack aired Lady...9 Lesson : ommon Minor hords in... hanging in the Key of... Friend of... Song of Freedom... Lesson : he rimary hords in... arefree in... Lesson : he rimary hords in...6 razy lanet... Rolling Rocks... Lesson : ommon Minor hords in...8 Oldie but oodie...8 hapter : Moving round in the Key...9 Lesson : he Major Scale...9 Lesson : uilding hords from the Major Scale... ack at Rolling Rocks... Lesson : Minor Keys... She Left Me im...8 hapter : More on hords...9 Lesson : Making Major hords Minor...9 Lesson : Movable arre hords... he reepy ar... Winding own the Road... Lesson : th hords... Red ot Restaurant... hapter 6: Songs in Fingerstyle...8 Lesson : ome ase for the Right and...8 Lesson : Multi-art Writing...9 ass, otta dd You...9 Waltz-ime lues... Rising ass... valanche... Stoppin on One... usk with a Light reeze... Lesson : he apo... Rest Stop... art : coustic Styles... hapter : luegrass, ountry and Folk Flatpicking... Lesson : lternating ass... lternating ass in... lternating ass in... lternating ass in... Lesson : iatonic ass Fills... Walkin to the hanges... Lesson : dding lues to Fills...8 reak for Lester...6 he otal coustic uitarist

2 hapter 8: coustic lues...6 Lesson : he -ar lues rogression...6 -ar lues in...6 Lesson : he lues ass...6 oogie ass in E...6 Lesson : he 6 b Riff b lues in E...6 Lesson : he Minor entatonic Scale...66 Lesson : lues Riffs, Intros and urnarounds...68 Lesson 6: he b and the n... on t ha Wanna o... hapter 9: coustic uitar in Rock... Lesson : he ower hord... nyone Want a racker?... Lesson : rone Strings... rone and lone... Lesson : Suspended hords...6 Not Every String hanges... he Interstellar ilot...9 Syncopated ass-strum...9 Sittin, Strummin, Mutin...8 Lesson : ick rpeggios...8 oodbye, ountry...8 ick Your Friends...8 gnus...8 ybrid ridge...8 Lesson : Muted String hord Fingerings...8 Muted Matthews...8 lay What You lay...86 Lesson 6: coustic Rock Solos...8 Wish I Was at Your lace...89 hanks to Slurs...9 hapter : he Song...9 Lesson : hrasing...9 hrasing the Section...9 Lesson : Navigating the Song...9 Just Like a Song...96 Lesson : ension and Resolution...98 eparting one... ominant and Intense... Jazzy Simon... Short and Sweet...6 hapter : dvanced echniques...8 Lesson : lternate unings...8 Open lues... hat s the Way of the ircle Song... urn on Your ig Yellow Radio... Lesson : he ottleneck Slide... Stompin Machine...8 Lesson : armonics...9 Lesson : apping and Slapping... Moonbeam ridge... Lesson : World Influences... La ompe over Rhythm hanges...6 Final houghts... he otal coustic uitarist

3 hapter : Songs in, and his chapter will get you playing chords to songs in three keys. key is a specifi c set of seven notes (we ll talk about this in detail in hapter, page 9). Each note of a key can be used as the root note for one of seven different chords from that key. Of the seven chords in a key, three are used most frequently in songs. In this chapter we ll focus on these three chords called the primary chords as well as some minor chords common to each key. Lesson : he rimary hords in ere are the three primary chords in the key of Major. x x x onsistent fi ngering shape is in gray. Let s practice changing these chords with a progression of the primary chords in the style of Van Morrison s rown Eyed irl. o learn this tune quickly, focus on the consistent diagonal shape of your nd and rd fi ngers between the and the. lso, practice changing from to using the midair technique (see page ). lack aired Lady rack 8 Û Û Û Û Û Û Û etc. Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û. ount: he otal coustic uitarist 9

4 With alternating bass and fi ngerings for the major scale and major pentatonic scale under your belt, you are ready to play a song with diatonic bass fi lls. Notice that the song ends on a dominant th chord instead of a regular tonic chord. his colorful technique of ending on a dominant th occurs often in country, bluegrass, jazz and blues styles. luegrass and country tunes, such as the one below, are often played with a swing eighths feel (see page 6). Walkin to the hanges rack 8 Swing 8ths Œ Œ F Œ Œ Œ Ó 9 b ( ) he otal coustic uitarist

5 rack 88 ere s a piece that makes use of slap, natural and artifi cial harmonics as well as the advanced technique of tapping. o play it, your strings should be tuned to. on t 8 O O OO Moonbeam ridge O O O O O OO S.. S.. S.. ( ) SL ( ) 9 9 O XIX.. ( ).... SL ( ) XVII XVII XV XV b hesitate to let notes ring for longer than their written value. s you allow bass notes to sustain under melodies that use harmonics you will hear a full two-part sound. XVII XVII OO OO S.. he otal coustic uitarist

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