Acoustic Guitar Lessons

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: "Imitation Is" by Steve Suomu

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Advanced. The sincerest form of flattery

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: "Irish Jig: The Kerfunken Jig" by Rick Payman

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Intermediate. A traditional Irish Jig in dropped-D tuning, played in a slow, simple style inspired by fiddle player Martin Hayes.

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: "ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT" by Charles Gacsi

Style: Acoustic. Difficulty: Beginner. This is an old Welsh Song. Suitable as a recital number for a beginning student.

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.