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Beyond The Basics

Beyond The Basics Series - Three Packages
Level 3  (see below)

Now that you've learned the basics of fingerpicking and some cool songs, it's time to take your playing to the next level!! In this package series, you'll not only learn some new songs, but have fun adding variations to each one! You'll never have to play the song the same way twice AND you'll become a much better player while having a LOT of FUN!

Individually these are $12.95 but you can save when purchasing all three for only $29.95! See below.

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Here are the songs you'll learn: • Bye Bye Blues - Tommy Johnson • M&O Blues - Willie Brown • Poor Boy Blues - Robert Wilkens • Special Rider Blues - Skip James • You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley - Mississippi John Hurt
12.95


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In The Country Blues, you'll learn chord variations, walking bass lines, 'sound effects,' reverse hammer ons, 'train licks' and much more. Here are the songs you'll learn: • Canned Heat Blues - Tommy Johnson • Avalon Blues - Mississippi John Hurt • Easy Rider Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson • Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis • Spoonful - Reverend Gary Davis•
$12.95


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In the "The Piedmont Blues," you'll learn how to play a traditional song in a 'chord melody' style, how to arrange songs in different keys, add diminished chords to spice things up, banjo rolls, various alternate licks, bass runs and much more. Here are the songs that you'll learn: • C C Rider - Traditional• Diddy Wah Diddy - Blind Blake• Knoxville Rag - Etta Baker• Sally Where You Get The Liquor From - Gary Davis• Untrue Blues - Blind Boy Fuller Level: Intermediate fingerpicking skills.
$12.95


Purchase All Three Beyond The Basics for only $29.95
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Here are even more lessons to choose from.
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SKILL LEVELS

Level 1
- Students will have mastered their basic open chords and play a few songs.

Level 2 - Level 1 plus: being able to play some basic fingerpicking patterns.

Level 3 - Level 1, 2, plus: Students should be able to play an alternating bass with an independent melody on top.
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