This simple arrangement of Green Day’s “Time of Your Life” is a great lesson on letting the notes dictate how you pick them, instead of relying solely on downstroke picking or alternate picking.
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It’s not just a sentiment of good tidings, it’s a song lesson! Learn a very simple arrangement of this holiday favorite, which may be even better than figgy pudding!
Dec16
Have fun playing this simple, yet challenging arranging of one of everyone’s favorite carols. If you can handle playing C, F and G and some basic fingerpicking, you’ll be performing “Deck the Hall” in no time!
Dec12
Here is a wonderfully simple, yet elegant arrangement of the beloved carol, “Good King Wenceslas,” done in open D tuning.
As you learn more and more techniques, you should start trying to incorporate them into the songs you already know. We’ll take a very easy song and come up with some interesting things we can do for arranging it for the single guitar.
Surprise! You can learn how to use barre chords effectively while learning America’s “Sister Golden Hair.”
There’s a little bit of everything in this lesson, from easy arpeggios and strumming to some basic Travis style finger picking patterns. As always, David picks the song apart into small pieces that even many beginners can get with some concerted practice. Have fun learning this Harry Chapin classic!
Apr01
Playing quarter note triplets – dividing two beats into three equal parts – is tricky. David demonstrates how you can do it easily.
Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffet doesn’t take long to learn. We only need three chords and even a relative beginner will be able to impress their friends.
Feb07
Learn to add percussive strumming to your rhythm playing. David walks you through the basic technique, step by step, with audio examples.
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