To Fingerpick Is To Rule The World

If you are looking for songs to sing to:

Paul Simon is one to cut your teeth on.

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<li>Kathy's Song
<li>April Come She Will
<li>Angie
<li>So Long Frank Loyd Wright
<li>Bleaker Street
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Jim Croce also has some wonderful songs to fingerpick and sing to:

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<li>Time in a bottle
<li>These Dreams
<li>Photographs and Memories
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Gordon Lightfoot is another good one

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<li> If I Could Read Your Mind
<li> The Way I Feel (in DADGAD tuning)
<li> Affair on 42nd Street
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James Taylor:

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<li> Fire and Rain
<li> Carolina on My Mind
<li> Something in the way she moves me
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Some of Eric Claptons songs from the

Unplugged Album are very approachable but sound fantastic....

There are some good songs in Alternate Tunigs by Crosby Stills Nash and Young.  Some cool stuff by the Greatful Dead etc..

I play some Celtic fingerstyle sometimes...

But if you really want to have them drop their jaws, then Look up some stuff by Jerry Reed, Buster Jones or Chet Atkins.

I guess you can tell where my taste in music is centered, but you can take almost any song and do it finger style.

I've even taken some Almond Brothers stuff, slowed it down and adapted it to fingerstyle  (Melissa... After Midnight).  That's sometimes interesting... when you take a song from another genre and adapt it.  People perk up and listen, because they aren't used to hearing it in the fingerstyle genre...

Good Luck

"Boredom is a Personal Defect"

             Lamar Stephens

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dwvallance wrote:

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Try doing I Can See For Miles by the Who finger style and slow. It's very sinister indeed and has flashy looking and sounding but easy to play composite chords in it too. (Keep tapping that low E - shiver)
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I've never tried that song, but thanks for the idea... Sounds like a try.

Thanks

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<font color="firebrick"><b>One of my all time favorites is <font size="2">Michael Gulezian</font>. If you want to see an amazing performance check out his You Tube channel and his web site. I have been listening to him for over 20 years!</b></font>

<a href="http&#58;&#47;&#47;www.youtube.com/MichaelGulezian" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/MichaelGulezian</a>

<a href="http&#58;&#47;&#47;www.timbrelinemusic.com" target="_blank">http://www.timbrelinemusic.com</a>

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Cool stuff.   Do you know what tuning he's using?..  His first bass string is at least dropped to D...

One of my favorites to finger pick is

Tom Petty's "The Waiting"

IT ammazes me howmany people know this song!

I start finger picking. build to s strong strumming during the lead part and

end with fingerpicking.  It sounds great.

I usually capo on 2nd or 1st fret.

Well there you go   Dromom

You've added another fan to the guy...  The stuff he does looks fairly easy, but sounds very nice.

Thanks

I said <b><u>realitively</u></b> easy....

I've been working on some stuff by Tony McManus, Al Petteway, Chet Atkins and Tony Rice lately... not to mention learning Clawhammer Banjo and Mandolin recently...

It's nice when you find that way of earning a living and that time in your life when you can spend as much time learning and practicing new stuff as you want....

<font color="firebrick"><font face="Arial"><font size="1">Boredom is a personal defect

-- Lamar Stephens</font></font></font>

If you like some celtic/irish type stuff you can have some picking fun with Whiskey in the jar (I like Evans & Doherty's version, but apply finger picking to it) or Out on the mira - same deal - McGinty, Anne Murray or Cricklewood have good versions. On a different tack try Fleetwood Mac's Leather and Lace - nice!

Cheers - I'd love to hear you play them.

A few of my favs  Needle and the Damage Done    NEIL YOUNG

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