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A Fingerstyle Guitar Primer Song Supplement

A Fingerstyle Guitar Primer Song Supplement.

A Fingerstyle Guitar Primer Song Supplemen - The Song Supplement includes 5 pages of basic chords diagrams and Pattern-Picking arrangements of 54 folk songs.

(66 pages – available in both Tablature & Notation editions)

Table of Contents

  • Volume 1 - Easy Arrangements:
  • Railroad Bill
  • Man of Constant Sorrow
  • John Hardy
  • Billy Boy
  • Rose, Rose
  • Going Down to Town
  • Shepherd's Hey
  • Go Tell Aunt Rhody
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements with 3-Note C Bass & 6-String F Chord:
  • Wildwood Flower
  • Red River Valley
  • Barbara Allen
  • Worried Man Blues
  • Banks of the Ohio
  • Pay Me My Money Down
  • Putting On the Style
  • East Virginia
  • Bile Them Cabbage Down
  • New River Train
  • Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements with 8th Notes:
  • Oh, Suzannah
  • I Know Where I'm Going
  • Tom Dooley
  • Buffalo Boy
  • Reuben and Rachel
  • Tarry Trousers
  • Cripple Creek
  • Hush, Little Baby
  • The Water is Wide
  • The Keeper
  • The Eddystone Light
  • Byker Hill
  • Joe Bower
  • The Rambling Sailor
  • Arkansas Traveler
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements in 3/4 Time:
  • The Silkie
  • Stewball
  • Fair Ellender
  • The Four Maries
  • Engine 143
  • Santy Anna
  • Danville Girl
  • Rosin the Beau
  • In the Pines
  • Blackbirds and Thrushes
  • Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements with Dotted Quarter Note Rhythms:
  • Sailaway Ladies
  • Old Joe Clark
  • Blow the Man Down
  • Yankee Doodle
  • Greensleeves
  • Simple Gifts
  • The Cruel War
  • The Green Bushes
  • Scots Wha Hae
  • The Three Ravens
  • The Cat Came Back
  • The Cotton Field Song
  • Doney Gal
  • Volume 1 - Arrangements with Slurs:
  • The Fox
  • The Grinding Song
  • The Sloop John B.
  • Freight Train
  • Greensleeves in 4/4
  • Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  • Rock Island Line
  • John Riley
  • All Night, All Day
  • The Sign of the Bonny Blue Bell
  • Miss McLeod's Reel
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements with one-note slides to 2nd position:
  • Pretty Saro
  • The Lady of the Dainty Doon-by
  • Rise Up My Darling
  • Wagoner's Lad
  • Rye Whiskey
  • Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
  • The House Carpenter
  • The 8th of January
  • All My Trials
  • Katy Cruel
  • The Banks of the Don
  • Wondrous Love
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements with Grace Notes:
  • Pretty Polly
  • Sugar Baby
  • She Was a Rum One
  • Johnson Boys
  • There's More Pretty Girls Than One
  • Green Grow the Lilacs
  • Silver Dagger
  • This Train
  • Long Black Veil
  • At the Foot of Yonder Mountain
  • The River in the Pines
  • Rake and Ramblin' Boy
  • Mountain Dew
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements in 2nd Position:
  • Darlin' Corey
  • Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
  • Cumberland Gap
  • Dance to Your Daddy
  • She's Like the Swallow
  • The False Young Man
  • Eggs and Marrowbone
  • Queen of Hearts
  • The Birmingham Boys
  • Lady Gay
  • I Am a Pilgrim
  • Goin' Across the Mountain
  • The Dawning of the Day
  • A-Roving
  • Gospel Plow
  • Hurree Hurroo
  • Delia Gone
  • I've Got Peace Like a River
  • Poor Boy Blues
  • Bowling Green
  • The Blooming Bright Star of Belle Isle
  • Round the Bay of Mexico
  • The Ox-Driving Song
  • The Oak and the Ash
  • Liza Jane
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements with Triplet Eighth Notes:
  • Lonesome Valley
  • Amazing Grace
  • Momma Don't `low
  • The Skye Boat Song
  • Every Night When the Sun Goes Down
  • She Moved Through the Fair
  • All Night Long
  • New River Train
  • Take This Hammer
  • Twelve Gates to the City
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements in 3rd Position:
  • Ain't Nobody's Business
  • Roving Gambler
  • Careless Love
  • Blow Ye Winds in the Morning
  • Ladies of Brisbane
  • Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
  • Peggy-O
  • I Went to Visit the Rosses
  • Waterbound
  • Alabama Bound
  • Dabbling in the Dew
  • Brown's Ferry Blues
  • The Milking Song
  • Let Me Fly
  • Geordie
  • Jessie James
  • Red Apple Juice
  • I'm On My Way
  • Come Go with Me
  • Flora, Lily of the West
  • The Nightingales Sing
  • Fishing Blues
  • Volume 2 - Song Arrangements with Shuffle Rhythms:
  • Hesitation Blues
  • Jug Band Music
  • The Old Turf Fire
  • Alberta, Alberta
  • Sportin' Life
  • Whinin' Boy
  • Eileen Oge
  • Stagger Lee
  • Volume 3 - 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
  • Volume 3 - Song Arrangements with 16th Notes 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
  • Volume 3 - Song Arrangements in Compound Time (6/8, 9/8 & 12/8), Mixed Meter, and Changing Meter selections including :
  • Sweet Betsy from Pike
  • The Coasts of High Barbary
  • The Irish Washerwoman
  • Rio Grande
  • The Rocky Road to Dublin
  • The Dusty Miller
  • The Little Beggarman
  • Frankie and Johnnie
  • Cairistiona
  • Blood Red Roses
  • Joe Bowman
  • Greensleeves - III
  • In Sheffield Park
  • Volume 3 - Song Arrangements in Positions I-V including:
  • Fisher's Hornpipe
  • Stealin'
  • Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies
  • Volume 4 - Song Arrangements with Counterpoint Bass Lines including :
  • Go Tell Aunt Rhody (alt-bass and counterpoint versions)
  • Shepherds Hey - II
  • Reuben and Rachel - II
  • The Riddle Song
  • Cindy
  • Rose, Rose
  • Banks of the Ohio - II
  • Arkansas Traveler - II
  • Greensleeves - IV
  • The Girl I Left Behind Me
  • St. Anne's Reel
  • Volume 4 - Song Arrangements with Alternating & Counterpoint Bass Lines including :
  • The Erie Canal - II
  • Finnegin's Wake
  • Hey, Ho! Nobody Home
  • Shule Agra
  • St. James Infirmary Blues
  • Scarborough Fair - II
  • Volume 4 - Song Arrangements with 8th Notes in the Counterpoint Bass Line including
  • Scarborough Fair - III
  • The True Lover's Farewell
  • The Cuckoo
  • Cripple Creek - II
  • Wildwood Flower - III
  • High Germany
  • Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill
  • Black is the Color - II
  • Red Iron Ore
  • Rolling in the Dew
  • Miss McLeod's Reel - II
  • Volume 4 - Song Arrangements in Positions VI-X including :
  • South Australia
  • Nine Pound Hammer
  • Sailor's Hornpipe
  • The Lark in the Morn
  • The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
  • Sam Hall
  • Skibbereen
  • St. Louis Tickle
  • The Wearing of the Green
  • Flora, the Lily of the West
  • Deep River
  • Turkey in the Straw
  • Deep River Blues
  • Timber
  • Volume 5a - Song Arrangements with "Pulse Bass" including :
  • House of the Rising Sun - II
  • Rose, Rose - III
  • The Sons of Liberty
  • Hey Tuttie Tatie
  • Johnny Comes Marching Home
  • Pretty Polly - II
  • The Irish Washerwoman - II
  • Greensleeves (in 6/8)
  • The Rising of the Moon
  • Red Haired Boy
  • Paddy on the Turnpike - II
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic
  • Volume 5a - Song Arrangements with Counterpoint "Pulse Bass" including :
  • The Bonny Lighter Boy
  • The Three Ravens - II
  • Iroquois Lullaby
  • The Devil's Nine Questions
  • Shady Grove - II
  • The Coasts of High Barbary
  • Lady Gay
  • Matty Groves
  • Johnny is My Darling
  • Blow the Candles Out
  • Tar Road to Sligo
  • Wheels of the World
  • Joshua fit de Battle
  • Volume 5b - "Dead Thumb" Bass Song Arrangements including :
  • Motherless Children
  • Momma Don't "low
  • PB & J Blues
  • Backwater Blues
  • St. James Infirmary Blues
  • Rollin' an' Tumblin'
  • Baby Please Don't Go
  • Key to the Highway
  • Big Road Blues
  • Black Snake Moan
  • Trouble in Mind
  • St. Louis Blues
  • Crossroads Blues
  • Sweet Home Chicago
  • Whirlpool Fool
  • Volume 5b - "Dead Thumb" Song Arrangements with String-Bending:
  • How Long Blues
  • Last Fair Deal Gone Down
  • Walking Blues
  • Hey, Hey
  • Duncan and Brady - II
  • I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down
  • Bender Blues
  • See See Rider
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