This piece features a 12 Bar Blues in the key of A Major and focuses on the Major Blues scale. There is a repeated phrase which uses a bend, followed by a pull off, which is a common Blues guitar technique. This piece contains quite a lot of different articulations and techniques, such as bends, …
This piece is a G minor blues, featuring basic barre chords and a mel-ody. The melody and chords dovetail with each other, creating the sense of a duet. There are no repeats in this piece. Instead, the melody of the first twelve bars is played in the lower part of the fretboard. The melody of …
The following piece is an famous Irish Folk song. The melody was also used for the song ‘Danny Boy’. Below is the chord chart, as well as the play-along recording. Try playing along yourself. There is also a link to the PDF for you to download. Click here to download the PDF for Londonderry Air
Greensleeves is a traditional English Folk song, dating back at least 400 years. It’s one of the most well known melodies of all time. The following sheet music is a Fingerstyle arrangement that I put together. You can view the sheet music, listen to the audio and download the PDF (and of course learn it …
No guitarist has ever developed serious technique without spending time practising technical exercises. Technical exercises allow you to focus in on a specific technical challenge and make deliberate progress with a specific technical skill. The following five exercises are simple, but challenging. Each one will help you develop your technique in slightly different way. Work …
This piece features a chord progression based around open chords. It is a ballad that is arranged in such a way that the melody is con-structed from a combination of arpeggiating chords (playing the chord one string at a time) and embellishing the chords. The time signature of 3/4 gives this piece an understated, rhythmic …