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American Primitive Guitar Fingerpicking Guitar - Sheet Music

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American Primitive Guitar Fingerpicking Guitar - Sheet Music

Fingerpicking guitar - Intermediate

SKU: MB.99802M

Composed by John Fahey. This edition: Saddle Stitch. Fingerpicking Guitar, Guitar, American Music, Blues, Adult Contemporary, Saddle-stitched. Grossman Audio. American Music. Book and online audio. 56 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #99802M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.99802M).

ISBN 9781513466941. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

In this series for the intermediate guitarist, John Fahey teaches a wide variety of instrumental solos. Critics have called Johns style American Primitive Guitar. The book includes tablature and notation with three compact discs featuring note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. LESSON ONE: A general discussion of pattern picking and the use of the alternate bass. In Christ There Is No East Or West, Take A Look At That Baby and Some Summer Day. LESSON TWO: One of Johns most requested multi-sectioned composition is Indian Pacific Railroad Blues, also known as Beverley. This tune demonstrates how John composes in the fingerpicking idiom. Also taught is another very requested and imitated instrumental, Johns The Last Steam Engine Train. LESSON THREE: When The Springtime Comes Again and The Approaching Of The Disco Void. A discussion of improvisational ideas in relationship to fingerstyle compositions concludes this lesson.

  • Blood On The Tracks by Edwin Pouncey
  • Explanation of the Tab System
  • In Christ There Is No East Or West
  • Take a Look at That Baby
  • Some Summer Day
  • Indian Pacific Railroad Blues
  • The Last Steam Engine Train
  • When The Springtime Comes Again
  • The Approaching Of The Disco Void