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Instruction: House of the Rising Sun – Lesson & Breakdown
In this segment Tommy shows you how to play the song “House of the Rising Sun”. This is an old song that makes a wonderful instrumental, the most popular likely being The Animals’ version. The melody in this tune is based on the vocal melody, played over a boom chick bass line. There’s some ideas […]
Instruction: House of the Rising Sun – Performance
In this video, I’ll give you a short performance of the song “House of the Rising Sun” played at a moderate tempo. Once you’ve worked with the lesson for this song and have learned to put the parts and necessary techniques together, be sure to work with the slow playalong first before moving it up […]
Instruction: Classic Fingerstyle Licks – Exercise 1 Playalong
Now let’s work on our first lick by playing it through together. It’s important that you put in the time with your metronome first so that you can play through the lick in time and the notes ring clear. Use this playalong video as a test: if you can play along with me at this […]
Instruction: Classic Fingerstyle Licks – Demonstration
In this video we’ll talk a bit about some classical fingerstyle licks you can learn. This is important to get under your fingers and the time you spend working on it now will prove very useful once we get further into the repertoire part of the course. We’ll also learn a few exercises that you […]
