Oneof the most versatile and most widely used acoustic guitar accompaniment stylesis ?Cotton Picking??a staple for any fingerstyle guitarist. This accompanimentstyle was so named after the woman who first popularized this technique in theearly part of the 20th Century, Elizabeth Cotton. Born Elizabeth Nevills on 5January 1893 near Chapel Hill in North Carolina, Elizabeth was a self-taughtmusician, singer, and songwriter who developed this unique accompaniment style.Also referred to as ?Travis Picking? and attributed to Merle Travis, thispattern-based fingerstyle guitar accompaniment should most certainly beattributed to Elizabeth Cotton and not Merle Travis. This arrangement of 'Freight Train' by Dennis McCorkle for solo fingerstyle guitar is an excellent representation of this style of playing. Includes standard sheet music notation and Tablature with fingeringsfor both the left and right hands.

ISBN 9781619119284.

Mentored by three legendary guitarists, Michael OaDorn is the living repository of not only the Merle Travis thumbstyle technique, but also the fingerstyle legacies of Chet Atkins and French guitarist, Marcel Dadi. This book contains a discussion of the differences between fingerstyle and thumbstyle technique, plus the most advanced exercises and tunes of any of the authoras three books for Mel Bay Publications a a must-have for any serious fingerstyle guitarist!The book begins with a series of progressive picking patterns with practice points that guide the player through intermediate and advanced licks and techniques. The harmony of each exercise was intentionally left unresolved so that it can be repeated to perfection. Soon, you will be playing OaDornas challenging Travis/Atkins/Dadi-inspired licks and compositions using the left-hand hammer-on, pull-off, and thumb-over techniques, and the right-hand thumb rake and palm mute.While the purpose of this book is to help you establish study habits that enhance your performance abilities, the exercises can also be used as intros, outros or springboards to kickstart your own compositions. At the end, as a payoff for completing the bookas lessons, the author presents three original compositions for player and audience enjoyment.Learn the evolutionary, often unconventional fingerstyle techniques of Travis, Atkins, Dadi, and OaDorn withKiller Technique(r): Fingerstyle Guitar! Includes access to an outstanding online audio recording of the bookas 47 exercises and solos.