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You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or 5.0 to open up these lesson plans and print them.  All of these lesson plans will have lyrics, chords, chord charts, finger picking styles. tablature, strum rhythms, and even sheet music.  But, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to get this material.  If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or 5.0 you can download it free at their homesite:  http://www.adobe.com

1. Michael Row The Boat Ashore:  PDF File has lyrics, chords, and chord diagrams.

2.  LEARN TO TUNE THE GUITAR:  MULTIMEDIA GRAPHICS EXPLANATION

3.  LEARN TO PLAY THE PIANO THE WAY YOU DO THE GUITAR

4.  PURCHASE MY COMPLETE GUITAR COURSE

5.  Classical Guitar Lesson:  Air in C by Matteo Carcassi:  PDF FILE / MIDI FILE

6.  Classical Guitar Lesson:  Prelude in C by Matteo Carcassi:  PDF FILE / MIDI FILE

7.  AMAZING GRACE:  Click here for PDF file of the music and chords.  Click here to hear me sing lead, harmony, with my electric guitar MP3 file.

8.  It Is Well With My Soul:  Click here for PDF file of the music and chords.   Click here to hear me sing lead, harmony, with my electric guitar:  MP3 File

9.  FARTHER ALONG:  MP3 file

10.  Another Version of MICHAEL ROW THE BOAT ASHORE.  In this arrangement I sing the lead and the harmony.  This was done using audio editing software which I sell.  If you are interested in learning how to create CD's of your own singing with your guitar playing just send me an E-mail.  Click to listen to me playing the guitar and singing lead and harmony.  Download the PDF file of this arrangement.

11.  THE ERIE CANAL:  Click on the PDF file to download the sheet music to this old folk song that every child has sang in school at one time or another.  Listen to me sing this song which was created by laying down two audio tracks of lead and low harmony.  I am using a combination of strumming and finger picking on the guitar accompaniment.

12.  FREIGHT TRAIN:  In this lesson you will learn how to play the melody on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd strings and at the same time keep a steady bass beat going with your thumb playing the 6th, 5th, and 4th strings.  This is a technique known as Travis Picking.  Chet Atkins implemented this technique frequently in his recordings.  Here is the music notation along with the tablature:  PDF FILE.  Here is the audio of this lesson in the form of a MIDI FILE.  This is an very simple version of this song.  There are other versions that are much more complicated.  Here is a video presentation of an arrangement that is more complicated.

13.  WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS:  Guitar solo using classical finger picking style.  Listen to the MP3 audio file.  Here is a much easier version of the song using chord and melody style.  Print up the TABLATURE.  Listen to Midi File.

14.  THE HORSE AND RIDER praise and worship scripture song.  Scroll down at this webpage and you can take a YouTube video lesson on this song.

 

 

 

ROCK AND ROLL GUITAR

You can now purchase my new CD on 
HOW TO PLAY ROCK AND ROLL GUITAR

Listen to some of the songs on this CD

1.  Groovin' Guitar
2.  Rebel Guitar
3.  Rock Around Texas 
4.  Rockin' 88 Guitar
5.  Fusion Guitar
6.  Honky Tonk
7.  Endless Love
8.  Sleepwalk
9.  Surfin California Sun
10.  Apache

These are easy to play Rock and Roll Guitar songs designed for the beginner.  However, they are great sounding songs as you can tell by playing the midi files above.  The first time you hear a song on the CD you hear only the lead guitar played at slow speed.  The second time you hear the same song you hear it played in its entirety with bass guitar and drum set.  The songs in the music book are written in music notation and in TABLATURE form which makes it real easy to learn how to play these great songs.  You will receive the book plus the CD which you can play on your stereo set or on your computer.

SEND YOUR ORDER OF $17 TO:

JOHN AXSOM
P.O. Box 39892
San Antonio, TX 78218

 

 

 

IRISH GUITAR BALLAD SOLO

Here's an old Irish ballad written by Thomas Moore in the 1800's called, "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms.  It has a haunting melody and it has that definite Irish sound.  You can listen to the MIDI File of the guitar solo.  You can download the PDF file of the music TAB and notation of this guitar solo.

 

 

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