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tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Sun Jul 20, 2025 2:07 pm

So I've been having a fun and frustration over the last week. with my new acoustic guitar. Some of the Travis picking has come back to me and while I can get through some stuff just fine like "Dust in the wind" a number of Zepplin tunes. I am woefully inadequate with folk, folk rock, bluegrass, country. The more I play the D'angelico Tammany the more I want to play folk rock stuff accurately.

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Sun Jul 20, 2025 5:34 pm

"Shake That Thing" with Stefan Grossman is a cool tune

Tabs available too, from a link or elsewhere.

If rusty "Oh Papa" is even easier to get fingers going.

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:01 pm

lfm wrote: Sun Jul 20, 2025 5:34 pm "Shake That Thing" with Stefan Grossman is a cool tune

Tabs available too, from a link or elsewhere.

If rusty "Oh Papa" is even easier to get fingers going.

Thanks for that....
One of the first acoustic blues songs I ever learned was Lightnin Hopkins
Baby Please don't go. That seriously mixed things up for me as it was the first time I conceived of "Chord/Melody" playing as opposed to strictly rhythm or lead.

I want to explore more simplified arpeggio rhythm playing Like House of the Rising Sun but more variation in the pattern playing. (Yes that was the first fingerstyle song I learned)

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:12 pm

I didn't find what I was looking for, but found something else:
https://www.gitarist.nl/gitarist-extra/ ... en-methode

(in Dutch, but video is video

)

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:39 pm

When I was looking for a nylon it became Cordoba, and found this linked on their site

From start you hear the final tune how it is played.

About 3:54 in the more fingerstyle comes into play, and from a very simple chord progression builds a really nice tune, I think.
- some of it useable for House of the rising sun

Bombadil · Post by **Bombadil** » Mon Jul 21, 2025 3:35 pm

Stefan Grossman. Apparently Clapton consulted him when he was trying to play old Robert Johnson stuff. He makes it look deceptively easy, but getting the thumb to act independently of the other fingers isn't as easy as it might seem at first.
I have a DVD lessons disk by him. He assumes a general knowledge of T-picking, which I didn't have when I bought the thing.

The Noodlist · Post by **The Noodlist** » Mon Jul 21, 2025 4:52 pm

https://www.anyonecanplayguitar.co.uk/freight-train/

tapper mike · Post by **tapper mike** » Mon Jul 21, 2025 9:32 pm

Well we are getting closer. I think I'm just going to rummage through my infinite collection of gp/tef/ptab collection.

Suggest to me some fingerpicking lessons online