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Old 05-15-2013, 03:36 PM
Glennwillow Glennwillow is offline
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Originally Posted by Muffinhead View Post
The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkel. Only four chords, C Am F G with easy changes. The intro, although it sound complex, is really not that hard to do.
The key to many finger picked songs, like "The Boxer," is learning to play the Travis pick. When I learned the Travis pick, all kinds of songs opened up to me. From Paul Simon, songs like "Poem on an Underground Wall," "Kathy's Song," and "Dangling Conversation" are all played, like "The Boxer," using the Travis pick.

A cool song to learn is Lindsey Buckingham's "Big Love." There is a You Tube with him teaching it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90fRFQ671IE

A lot of Gordon Lightfoot songs are played with the Travis pick also -- "Song for a Winter's Night," "All the Lovely Ladies," "Steel Rail Blues," etc are good songs to learn as just a few examples.

James Taylor doesn't generally use the Travis pick, but his style, at least to me, is very interesting. He does some teaching on these videos. http://www.jamestaylor.com/guitarlessons/ "Carolina on my Mind" is pretty rewarding and not terribly hard.

Jim Croce's songs are often finger picked. Many of John Denver's, too. Also, John Fogelberg. Pete Huttlinger does a great job on instructional videos for these folks.

- Glenn
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