Acoustic Guitar Lessons

Guitar Lesson: "RIDDLE SONG - Old English Song" by Charles Gacsi

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. This is an old tune that keeps coming back from time to time. It ends on the dominant. Keeps the music wanting to resolve to the beginning and start all over again. Good harmony technique for commercial Radio or TV product ad.

Guitar Lesson: "PolyRemnant" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. An excerpt (or remnant) from an exercise for practicing 3-finger picking and thumb independance.

Guitar Lesson: "Peter O'Neills" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. A Folk style tune, to Peter O'Neill.

Guitar Lesson: "OutBurst" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. A tune/exercise based around an (open-string) A Major arpeggio. Added a new fingerstyle 'sweep' picking section.

Guitar Lesson: "One For Sandra" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. Here's a simple (twelve-bar) sequence using the odd bass hammer-on, to Sanda Goodfellow.

Guitar Lesson: "No Particular Reason" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Advanced. This sequence combines an open string arpeggio with an occasional sustained melody note played on the 1st string.

Guitar Lesson: "Nobody's Jig" by Sandra Goodfellow

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Beginner. A nice, easy folk tune

Guitar Lesson: "Mosaic Waltz" by Sandra Goodfellow

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. This waltz uses some easy to finger chords and a variety of picking patterns.

Guitar Lesson: "Father To Son" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. Part of a piece intended to be played as a Duet with my son, Jonathan.

Guitar Lesson: "Cool Riff" by Zack Sheppard

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. A simple riff by a band.. >_> <_<... forgot the name

Guitar Lesson: "Charlie" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. A slow Latin style rhythm piece, dedicated to Charlie Gacsi - Get Well Soon.

Guitar Lesson: "Just Good Friends" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. Two independent tunes which really don't belong together, but which seem to enjoy each others' company.

Guitar Lesson: "Make Up Your Mind" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. A fairly simple fingerstyle tune using hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Guitar Lesson: "Morning Glory" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. Part of a tune inspired by this glorious morning.

Guitar Lesson: "Irish Jig: Jackson's Morning Brush" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. An arrangement of a traditional Irish jig for guitar in dropped-D tuning.

Guitar Lesson: "Cowboy Hat" by Coco Gaston

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. Cowboy hat, original from uruguay by the author of rico normandy. Not very famous, never got far, partiture too hard to read, timing impossible. Look at it.

Guitar Lesson: "Going Through The Motions" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. An experimental Lesson in presenting an altered tuning using PowerTAB.

Guitar Lesson: "Down A Dirt Road" by Kyle Richardson

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Advanced. A short intro to a song I wrote called "Down a Dirt Road", you need to fingerstyle this one if you want to play it.

Guitar Lesson: "Kirk's Groove" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. Initially inspired by a blues slide lesson of Kirk Lorange, the feel here ended up quite different ...

Guitar Lesson: "LONESOME ROAD" by Charles Gacsi

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Beginner. This is a folk song, perhaps spritual? Lonely? Religious? Expressive feelings? Sorrow? Loneliness? Easy chords. Difficulty level places it about month 4 of serious study, or sooner.