Art of Contemporary Travis Picking
For Beginning Travis Pickers
by Mark Hanson
This book/CD course is the best teaching method available for the alternating-bass fingerpicking style (commonly called Travis Picking). It contains a comprehensive study of the patterns and variations of the style, taking you through your first two solo pieces. All exercises and tunes are played at half- and full-speed on the CD. This package is great for both beginning fingerpickers and more advanced players who want to learn this style. Fourteen pieces in all, arranged in gradually increasing degrees of difficulty.
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Introduction What You Need to Know The Songs and the Recording Picking-Hand Position Four Basic Travis Pick Patterns Pattern 1: “Outside-In” Changing Chords Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Songs to Play “Sloop John B.” Pattern 2: “Inside Out” Alternating I-O and O-I “John Barleycorn” Pattern 3: “Pinch” “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” Additional Emphasis for the Pinch “The Trees They Do Grow High” Pattern 4: “Descending Arpeggio” “Hush, Little Baby” Ring-Finger Variations Recognizing Ring-Finger Variations “Going Down the Road Feelin’ Bad” Introductory Melody Playing “Freight Train” Necessities of Good Accompaniment Playing Three-String Bass Patterns “Watch the Stars” Six-String Playing “Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms” Slurs Hammer-on and Pull-Off Slide Consecutive Slurs “I Know You Rider” Two Chords Per Measure “Wanderin’” Simultaneous Finger Notes “The Water Is Wide” Rhythmic Variations “Hesitation Blues” “Over and Out Rag” "Art of Solo Fingerpicking" Preview “Over and Out” Performance Notes Appendix A: People to Hear Appendix B: Contemporary Travis Picking Songs Appendix C: Glossary Appendix D: Tablature Guide Appendix E: Chord Chart/Guitar Information |
Art of Contemporary Travis Picking
Cat# AM-1044
Book/CD
Standard Notation & Tablature
$19.95
