Music from the church always featured in the repertoires of Country Blues Guitarists. In this lesson we explore several styles of fingerpicking gospel tunes. We start with playing in the key of C and two well known songs played in the style of Mississippi John Hurt and Elizabeth Cotten. We then tackle I'll Fly Away which introduces a new right hand technique that combines fingerstyle with strumming. This technique will add a different texture to your playing. We then begin to explore playing in open tunings and Just a Closer Walk with Thee played in an Open G Tuning. We then go to an Open D tuning to learn Death Come Creeping and Will the Circle BeUnbroken.Two bonus sections are included. The first demonstrates how to change your Guitar strings so that they will not slip. The second is an audio section that features recordings showing variations and other approaches to the tunes taught.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. Each tune is taught phrase by phrase and played slowly on a split-screen.Titles include: I Am A Pilgrim What a Friend We Have In Jesus I'll Fly Away Just A Closer Walk With Thee Death Come Creeping and Will The Circle Be Unbroken.

Twenty-seven songs from The Queen Of Country including 'Crazy' 'I Fall To Pieces' 'Sweet Dreams' and 'Walkin' After Midnight'. In full Tab and notation.

Guitar Picking Tunes - Gospel Favorites. With the musically literate steel or nylon-string guitarist in mind, this book features 32 well-known gospel tunes arranged in guitar-friendly keys in standard notation only. While ideal for solo performance in church services, suggested guitar chords provide a foundation for sight reading, improvisation and group singing. To encourage students to pencil-in their own ideas about digitation, minimal right and left-hand fingering is given. Includes access to online audio.

Fingerpicking and Travis Picking-Fingerpicking and Travis Picking. Includes notes & tab for fingerpicking and Travis picking arrangements of 15 favorites: Amazing Grace · Blessed Assurance · Do Lord · I've Got Peace like a River · Just a Closer Walk with Thee · O Happy Day · Precious Memories · Rock of Ages · Swing Low Sweet Chariot · There Is Power in the Blood · Wayfaring Stranger · What a Friend We Have in Jesus · When the Saints Go Marching In · and more!

This extremely comprehensive blues solo collection features 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking Guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. Online audio tracks are included to download.

Martin Simpson is one of the most brilliant and lyrical fingerstyle guitar soloists on worldwide acoustic guitar scene. In this masterful book Martin captures the melodic beauty earthy rhythms and haunting modal temperamentsfound in the American gospel tradition. Nineteen guitar solos are offered. Notation and tablature.