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TheFolksinger's Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson #21,Circle of 4ths Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 436 seconds This lesson is about Fourths. The third of three lessons regarding use of the Circle of Fifths and Fourths to produce major chords. Related: chords, fingerstyle, fourths, free, fun, guitar, lesson |
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TheFolksinger's Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson #1 Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 398 seconds Lesson # 1 in fingerstyle strumming from the "Play Piano and Guitar by Ear" course Bill teaches at the American University in Cairo, Egypt Related: by, ear, fingerstyle, free, guitar, lesson, play, three-note-chord |
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Will The Circle Be Unbroken? Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 360 seconds A folksong "standard" here presented in an original arrangement and vocal rendition focusing on simple guitar voicings. Related: fingerstyle, folk, free, group, guitar, lesson, music, singing, thefolksinger |
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Silent Night Easy Christmas Piano Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 250 seconds A visual of chords and arrangement to play and sing a simple version of Silent Night with the piano in the key of C or G. Related: bill, easy, silent, christmas, evenhouse, free, lesson, night, piano, religious, thefolksinger |
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You Are My Sunshine Very Basic Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 626 seconds A very basic piano approach to right hand melody and left hand rhythm accompaniment for this well-known song. Related: 250, are, auc, bill, evenhouse, folk, free, lesson, music, my, piano, popular, sunshine, thefolksinger, unsigned, you |
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Oh Sinner Man Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 275 seconds A folksong done years ago by The Weavers, with Lee Hays featured. TheFolksinger has been thinking about him lately. Related: bill, evenhouse, folk, gospel, guitar, hayes, lee, man, open, religious, sinner, the, weavers |
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TheFolksinger's Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson #2 Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 393 seconds We build the do-mi-so chord using a 1-3-5 form on the second,third,and fourth strings. Then we practice that form as a moveable chord (C major, F major, and G major) Related: chord, fingerstyle, forms, free, fun, guitar, lesson, playing |
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TheFolksinger's Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson in Open D Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 446 seconds A song played in open D to illustrate the major chord in one "form". Thank goodness the song is still true. Related: chord, fingerstyle, free, guitar, lesson, lovesong, open, tuning |
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TheFolksinger's Fingerstyle Banjo Break # 1 Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 326 seconds Some basic banjo strums and picking, but without picks. You Are My Sunshine is the song. Related: are, banjo, easy, fingerstyle, free, lesson, my, oh, sunshine, susannah, technique, you |
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TheFolksinger's Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson #15 Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 486 seconds Sliding 3rds to augment a melody ("You Are My Sunshine") Related: 3rds, fingerstyle, folk, guitar, song, sunshine, you |
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TheFolksinger's Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson 20 Circle of 5ths Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 329 seconds Using the Circle of Fifths to produce all of the major chords in at least one of their forms. Related: 5ths, chords, circle, fingerstyle, guitar, lesson, of, theory |
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The Frozen Logger Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 283 seconds Orignal approach to an old folk song, focusing on simple guitar techniques. Related: bill, easy, evenhouse, fingerstyle, folk, free, frozen, guitar, humor, lesson, logger, thefolksinger |
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow: the first two melody notes Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 655 seconds a study of one way to look at the scales and modes derived from a specific key. Here we confine ourselves to the key of C. Related: free, jazz, lesson, over, piano, pop, rainbow, somewhere, the, thefolksinger, unsigned |
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Scarlet Ribbons Sung for Annie Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 281 seconds Annie is desperately ill and her dad's Uncle Bill, the folksinger, sends this to her bedside with love from Cairo Egypt Related: annie, folk, hospital, illness, inspirational, miracle, prayer, religious, ribbons, scarlet, thefolksinger |
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Easy Guitar Chords and Walking the Bass"You Are My Sunshine" Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 605 seconds Basic Chords C, G7 and F, and a way to "Walk the Bass" between them to play a simple accompaniment to "You Are My Sunshine" Related: bass, bill, chords, easy, evenhouse, free, guitar, lesson, thefolksinger, walking |
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I Ain't Got No Home Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 314 seconds Woody Guthrie "redid" the gospel song "This World is Not My Home" to reflect the hard times he knew so well. This tip of the hat to him comes during days that may remind many of the ones he sang about. Related: aint, bill, evenhouse, folk, gospel, got, guthrie, home, is, my, no, not, open, this, unsigned, woody, world |
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TheFolksinger's Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson # 5 Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 363 seconds The first of the lessons combining the three chord "forms" to play 1st, 4th, and 5th chords in any "do-re-mi" scale. Related: chord, fingerstyle, forms, free, fun, guitar, lesson, playing |
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Pretty Boy Floyd Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 215 seconds Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger and almost every other folksinger including me has sung this song, and now, by request, I offer my version to You Tube. Related: boy, city, floyd, folk, guitar, guthrie, oklahoma, pete, prety, seeger, thefolksinger, woody |
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Double-Thumbing: TheFolksinger's Fingerstyle Guitar #26 Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 388 seconds A closer look at the double-thumbing used in the videos #24 and #25: East Texas Red and Don't Think Twice. Related: dont, double-thumbing, east, fingerstyle, free, guitar, lesson, red, texas, think, twice |
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Country Roads: TheFolksinger's Guitar Lesson #28 Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 232 seconds A cover of the Guitar played in simple style to accompany singer. With chords marked. The original was I understand words and music by bill danoff, taffy nivert and john denver Related: bill, country, denver, evenhouse, fingerstyle, folk, free, guitar, john, lesson, roads |
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TheFolksinger's Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson #13 Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 505 seconds A Simple Jazz Progression, suitable for "Summertime" and a basic intro to the pentatonic scale for soloing Related: finger, fun, guitar, improvisation, jazz, solo |
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TheFolksinger's John McCain Dream Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 239 seconds Semi-talking guitar dream,an original composition performed by TheFolksinger, Bill Evenhouse Related: barak, bill, bob, dream, dylan, evenhouse, fingerstyle, folk, frost, guitar, john, mccain, obama, robert |
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Arkansas Traveler Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 317 seconds A song for Depression Times, I heard it first some 45 or so years ago, a version sung and talked by Lee Hays of The Weavers. And I have never forgotten it. Related: arkansas, blues, fingerstyle, folk, guitar, hard×, hays, lee, talking, the, unsigned, weavers |
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Pentatonic Patterns: theFolksinger Fingerstyle Guitar #27 Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 531 seconds Two patterns with exactly the same form that work well together in any key. Related: fingerstyle, free, guitar, keys, lesson, patterns, pentatonic, runs, scales |
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Talking Guitar Blues Posted by: TheFolksinger
Video duration: 252 seconds A talking style song about learning to play the guitar, from (I think) Cisco Houston via Woody Guthrie. Related: bill, blues, cisco, country, evenhouse, folk, funny, guitar, guthrie, houston, music, talking, thefolksinger, unsigned, woody |


























