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Featured Lessons
Fingerpicking Lessons
Beginner (Level 1/2)
Standard Tuning
- CAGED System with Country Blues
- Key To The Highway (Big Bill Broonzy)
- Freight Train (Elizabeth Cotten)
- Candyman (Rev. Gary Davis)
- Ft. Worth Blues (Steve Earle)
- Goodbye (Steve Earle)
- Greenville Avenue (Tom Feldmann)
- Rag in C (arr. by Tom Feldmann)
- Mojo Hand (Lightnin’ Hopkins)
- C.C. Rider (Mississippi John Hurt)
- First Shot Missed Him (Mississippi John Hurt)
- Spike Drivers Blues (Mississippi John Hurt)
- Stack O’Lee (Mississippi John Hurt)
- Sugar Babe (Mance Lipscomb)
- Walk On (Brownie McGhee)
- It Won’t Be Long Now (Frank Stokes)
- Nine Pound Hammer (Merle Travis)
- Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor (Traditional)
Drop D Tuning
- Skip Around The Old Oak Tree (Tom Feldmann)
Open G/A Tuning
- Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There (arr. by Tom Feldmann)
- Well Done (Tom Feldmann)
Open D/E Tuning
- Run, Sinner, Run (Mance Lipscomb)
Intermediate (Level 2/3)
Standard Tuning
- Baby Please Don’t Go (Pink Anderson)
- Stump Blues (Big Bill Broonzy)
- Little Babe (R.L. Burnside)
- Going Down South (R.L. Burnside)
- L.A. Freeway (Guy Clark)
- The Cape (Guy Clark)
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (Rev. Gary Davis)
- Ballad of Angel Mosley (Tom Feldmann)
- Clay Pigeons (Blaze Foley)
- Election Day (Blaze Foley)
- If I Could Only Fly (Blaze Foley)
- Oh Darlin’ (Blaze Foley)
- Our Little Town (Blaze Foley)
- Bring Me My Shotgun (Lightnin’ Hopkins)
- Come Back Baby (Lightnin’ Hopkins)
- Mean Old Twister/Backwater Blues (Lightnin’ Hopkins)
- Needed Time (Lightnin’ Hopkins)
- Shinin’ Moon (Lightnin’ Hopkins)
- Spoonful Blues (Mance Lipscomb)
- Elder Green Blues (Charley Patton)
- Goin’ Away Baby (Jimmy Rogers)
- Ludella (Jimmy Rogers)
- That’s All Right (Jimmy Rogers)
- I Am the Wolf (Howlin’ Wolf)
- If I Needed You (Townes Van Zandt)
- Pancho & Lefty (Townes Van Zandt)
- Waiting Around To Die (Townes Van Zandt)
- Delia (Tradtional)
Drop D Tuning
- Brownskin Woman (Sam Chatmon)
- Fishin’ Blues (Taj Mahal)
Open G/A Tuning
- Pushin’ My Luck (Robert Belfour)
- Long Haired Doney (R.L. Burnside)
Open D/E Tuning
- Hands In Hand (Tom Feldmann)
- Shine Upon Everyone (Tom Feldmann)
Advanced (Level 3/4)
Standard Tuning
- Bowling Green Rag (John Cephas)
- I Belong To The Band (Rev Gary Davis)
- Oh Glory, How Happy I Am (Rev Gary Davis)
- There’s A Bright Side Somewhere (Rev. Gary Davis)
- Robert Johnson’s Blues in A (arr by Tom Feldmann)
- New Highway No. 51 (Tommy McClennan)
- Rollin’ Stone (Muddy Waters)
Open D/E Tuning
- Potato Soup (Tom Feldmann)
Open G/A Tuning
- I Want You To Know (Bo Carter)
- Ways Like A Crawfish (Bo Carter)
Bottleneck Slide Lessons
Beginner (Level 1/2)
Open G/A Tuning
- Poor Boy A Long Ways From Home (Barbecue Bob)
- I Can’t Be Satisfied (Muddy Waters)
Open D/E Tuning
- 10,000 Chains (Tom Feldmann)
- Amazing Grace (arr. by Tom Feldmann)
- Going Now But I Won’t Stay Long (Tom Feldmann)
- Dust My Broom (Elmore James)
- Moanin’ The Blues (Allen Shaw)
- O Lord I Want You To Help Me (Robert Wilkins)
Intermediate (Level 2/3)
Open G/A Tuning
- Better Keep It Hid (Tom Feldmann)
- Keep Marching On (Hallelujah) (Tom Feldmann)
- Lord Have Mercy When I Come To Die (Son House)
- Kind Hearted Woman (George Thorogood)
- Down In The Bottom (Howlin’ Wolf)
Open D/E Tuning
- Run Sinner Run (Guy Davis)
- Shake Your Moneymaker (Elmore James)
- It’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine (Blind Willie Johnson)
- 61 Highway (Fred McDowell)
- Letter From Hot Springs (Fred McDowell)
- The Lord Will Make A Way (Fred McDowell)
- Get Right Church (Fred McDowell)
Advanced (Level 3/4)
Open G/A Tuning
- I Am the Black Ace (Black Ace)
- Mean Old World (Clapton/Allman)
- Am I Wrong (Keb’ Mo’)
- She Just Wants To Dance (Keb’ Mo’)
- Give It Up or Let Me Go (Bonnie Raitt)
Open D/E Tuning
- Vigilante Man (Ry Cooder)
- Paris, Texas (Ry Cooder)
- Albatross (Peter Green/Fleetwood Mac)
- Hallelu (Tom Feldmann)
- Have Ourselves A Time (Tom Feldmann)
- It Hurts Me Too (Tampa Red)
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Guitar of Son House
Titles Include: OPEN G TUNING: Death Letter Blues, My Black Mama, Low Down Dirty Dog Blues, The Jinx Blues, Special Rider Blues, Walkin' Blues (from 1930), Dry Spell Blues, County Farm Blues OPEN D TUNING: Shetland Pony Blues, Preachin' The Blues, This Little Light of Mine, CROSS-NOTE TUNING: Clarksdale Moan, STANDARD TUNING: Depot Blues, Am I Right Or Am I Wrong, Walkin' Blues (from 1940's)
Guitar of Robert Johnson
Titles Include: STANDARD TUNING: Kind Hearted Woman, Phonograph Blues, 32-20 Blues, A Blues Variations (Dead Shrimp Blues, Little Queen of Spades, Honeymoon Blues), I'm A Steady Rolling Man, Sweet Home Chicago, Love in Vain Blues, From Four Til Late, DROP D TUNING: Malted Milk, CROSSNOTE TUNING: Hellhound on my Trail, SPANISH TUNING: Stop Breakin' Down Blues, Walking Blues, Come On In My Kitchen, Last Fair Deal Gone Down, Stones In My Passway, Cross Road Blues, Traveling Riverside Blues, If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day, VESTAPOL TUNING: Rambling on my Mind, I Believe I'll Dust My Broom, Preaching Blues, STANDARD TUNING They're Red Hot
Guitar of Fred McDowell
Titles Include: OPEN E TUNING: When I Lay My Burden Down, Keep Your Lamp Trimmed
And Burning, John Henry, Break 'Em On Down, Louise, Mojo Hand, I Heard Somebody Call OPEN A TUNING: Write Me A Few Lines, Been Drinking Out of A Hollow Log, Fred's Worried Life Blues, The Train I Ride, Kokomo Blues
And Burning, John Henry, Break 'Em On Down, Louise, Mojo Hand, I Heard Somebody Call OPEN A TUNING: Write Me A Few Lines, Been Drinking Out of A Hollow Log, Fred's Worried Life Blues, The Train I Ride, Kokomo Blues
Guitar of Blind Willie Johnson
Titles Include: Bye And Bye I’m Goin’ To See The King, You’re Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond, Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground, God Don’t Never Change, Lord I Just Cant Keep From Crying, Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning, I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole and Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed
Guitar of Skip James
Titles include: Crossnote Tuning: Cypress Grove Blues, Devil Got My Woman,Yola My Blues Away, Hard Time Killing Floor, Cherry Ball Blues, Four O'Clock Blues, Hard Luck Child, Illinois Blues, I'm So Glad, Standard Tuning: Drunken Spree, Crow Jane, Worried Blues, Look Down the Road, All Night Long, Spanish Tuning: Special Rider Blues
Bottleneck Gospel Guitar
Titles include: OPEN D TUNING: FRED McDOWELL Jesus Is On The Mainline ROBERT WILKINS Wished I Was In Heaven MUDDY WATERS Why Don’t You Live So God Can Use You BUKKA WHITE I Am In The Heavenly Way BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON It’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine BLIND WILLIE McTELL I Got To Cross That River of Jordan OPEN G TUNING: EDWARD W. CLAYBORN Gospel Train Is Coming and There’ll Be Glory CHARLIE PATTON Lord I’m Discouraged and I’m Going Home
Guitar of Charlie Patton
Titles include: Poor Me, Down the Dirt Road Blues, Green River Blues, Jim Lee Blues, Some of These Days I'll Be Gone, Pony Blues, Devil Sent the Rain, Shake It and Break, Tom Rushen Blues, High Sheriff Blues, Hammer Blues (Take 1 & 2), Banty Rooster Blues, Mississippi Bo Weavil Blues, When Your Way Get's Dark, Pea Vine Blues, Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues, High Water Everywhere (Take 1 & 2), A Spoonful Blues
Gospel Guitar of Mississippi John Hurt
Titles include: Do Lord Remember Me, Here I Am Oh Lord Send Me, Blind Man Sit In The Way And Cried, Since I've Laid My Burden Down, Weeping and Wailing, Blessed Be The Name, Praying On The Old Camp Ground, Nearer My God To Thee, Beulah Land and Oh Mary Don't You Weep
Mississippi Hill Country Blues Guitar
Titles include:Black Cat Bone (Jessie Mae Hemphill), Dough Roller Blues (Ranie Burnette), That's Alright (Fred McDowell), Poor Black Mattie (R.L. Burnside), Jumper Hanging Out On The Line (R.L. Burnside), Meet Me In The City (Junior Kimbrough), Standing In The Doorway Crying (Jessie Mae Hemphill), I'm Crazy About You Baby (Fred McDowell), Count The Days Until I'm Gone (Rosa Lee Hill)
Masters of Bottleneck Blues Guitar
Titles Include: OPEN G TUNING: BOBBY GRANT Nappy Headed Blues LEAD BELLY C.C. Rider BLIND WILLIE MCTELL Love Changing Blues BARBECUE BOB Yo Yo Blues CURLEY WEAVER No No Blues CHARLEY LINCOLN Depot Blues BO WEAVIL JACKSON You Can't Keep No Brown OPEN D TUNING: RAMBLIN' THOMAS Shake It Gal FURRY LEWIS Falling Down Blues PEG LEG HOWELL Skin Game Blues KING SOLOMON HILL Down On My Bended Knee SAM COLLINS The Jailhouse Blues KOKOMO ARNOLD Rainy Night Blues TAMPA RED Boogie Woogie Dance BLIND BOY FULLER Homesick and Lonesome Blues BUMBLE BEE SLIM No Woman No Nickel
Roots of Robert Johnson
Titles include: Standard Tuning: Lead Pencil Blues (Johnnie Temple), Blue Day Blues (Scrapper Blackwell), Life Saver Blues (Lonnie Johnson) Open G Tuning: Police Station Blues (Peetie Wheestraw), My Black Mama (Son House), Roll and Tumble Blues (Hambone Willie Newburn) Open D Tuning: Preaching the Blues (Son House) Crossnote Tuning: Devil Got my Woman (Skip James)
