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Introduction
Guitar Types
Seating, The Pi
Right Arm Position
Left Hand Position
Rudiments of Musi
LESSON 1
First String Notes
Right Hand Support
Pick Technique
LESSON 2
Second String Notes...
Song of Joy .
Skip to My Lou
Two String Blue:
LESSON 3
Third String Note:
Aura Lee ..
Three String Blues
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
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LESSON 4
Fourth String Notes
Molly Malone
Will the Circle be Unbroken
Walkin’ Blues
LESSON 5
Fifth String Notes
Rests .....
Banks of the Ol
Blow the Man Down
Volga Boatman...
LESSON 6
Sixth String Notes
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Blues in C
Asturias
Open Position Notes
LESSON 7
Eighth Notes ..
Twelve Bar Blues in C..
Waltzing Matilda
Song of Joy (Duet)..
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House of the Ri
Dark Eyes...
Minuet (Duet)
LESSON 9
Hall of the Moun’
Blue Seas.
LESSON 10
Dotted Quarter Notes .
Greensleeves ..
Auld Lang Syne (Duet)
SUPPLEMENTARY PIECES:
God Rest Ye Merry
Gentlemen
Rick’s Blues.
Star Spangled Banner .
Silent Night .
When the Saints
Go Marching In (Duet) ..
APPENDIX ONE
Tuning ...
APPENDIX TWO
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