Fingerpicking Guitar Techniques lesson I & II - Stefan Grossman Page Two

After you are comfortable with finger picking notice that what I particularly like about this 2 lesson guitar lesson set is that it has a Lightning Hopkins song in it. Lightning tends to play in guitar friendly keys like A and E and sound pretty darn good too! A couple of other of Stefan's lessons cover Lightning Hopkins songs too and you should check out the lesson menus in each of my Stefan Grossman guitar lesson reviews so as to pick out your favorite players in specific of his lessons.

Stefan in addition to being a really knowledgable guitar player is a musicologist and can teach us a lot about American country roots guitar music. He also offers tracks of the original recordings for us to hear which is a unique feature as far as I am aware of concerning these old songs.

The first song he teaches us is "Oh Papa" using one chord, G, and sliding it down a half step. He shows us the technique using pinches and I do recommend this for beginners willing to work. lesson II is standard and drop D tuning and gets more advanced.

Fingerpicking Guitar techniques lesson I - Stefan Grossman
• Ch 1: Opening Credits
• Ch 2: Intro to alternating bass
• Ch 3: Tuning
• Ch 4: Right hand technique
• Ch 5: A Fingerpicking exercise in G
• Ch 6: Rev Gary Davis performing "Candy Man"
• Ch 7: Intro to Lightning Hopkins "Take Me Back"
• Ch 8: Lighting' performing above
• Ch 9: Mance Lipscomb "Sugar Babe"
• Ch 10: Another Fingerpicking Exercise in G
• Ch 11: Explanation of Tab
• Ch 12: Continuation the the above exercise in G
• Ch 13: "Oh Papa", teaching, split screen
• Ch 14: Intro "Shake that Thing"
• Ch 15: "Shake That Thing", teaching, split screen
• Ch 16: Intro "Death Comes Creeping"
• Ch 17: "Death... ", teaching, split screen
• Ch 18: Playing in Key of C
• Ch 19: "Nobody's Dirty Business"
• Ch 20: "Nobody's Dirty Business", teaching, split screen
• Ch 21: Dampening left hand discussion
• Ch 22: Intro "Make me a Pallet on Your Floor"
• Ch 23: "Make me a Pallet on Your Floor", teaching, split screen
• Ch 24: Guitarists to hear
• Ch 25: John Jackson performing "That will Never Happen No Mo'"
• Ch 26: Liz Cotten performing "Freight Train"
• Ch 27: Final Thoughts

Fingerpicking Guitar techniques lesson II - Stefan Grossman
• Ch 1: Opening Credits
• Ch 2: Intro to alternating bass
• Ch 3: Tuning
• Ch 4: "Coffee Blues", teaching, split screen
• Ch 5: Discussion
• Ch 6: Intro "Crow Jane"
• Ch 7: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhgee do "Crow Jane"
• Ch 8: "Crow Jane", teaching, split screen
• Ch 9: Intro to Pink Anderson
• Ch 10: Pink plays Crow Jane
• Ch 11: Intro to "Oh Mary don't you Weep?"
• Ch 12: "Oh Mary don't you Weep?", teaching, split screen
• Ch 13: Intro to "Delia"
• Ch 14: "Delia" 1st section, split screen
• Ch 15: 2nd section, split screen
• Ch 16: 3d section, split screen
• Ch 17: Intro Old Country Rock
• Ch 18: Old Country Rock, teaching, split screen
• Ch 19: Intro " Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
• Ch 20: " Will the Circle Be Unbroken", teaching, split screen
• Ch 21: Variations, teaching, split screen
• Ch 22: Merle Travis performance "Cannon Ball Rag"
• Ch 23: Doc Watson performing "Deep River Blues"
• Ch 24: Final Thoughts and Ending credits

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