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Individual Tune Lessons

Lessons are available on CD with tablature and are sent via snail-mail. Cost for this service is $35.00 postpaid per 45 minute lesson. Forty-five minutes usually covers one fiddle tune explained slowly and with tablature. Just e-mail me and we'll discuss the tune you want to learn.

I also offer custom lessons by mail on most traditional, bluegrass or old-time tunes. Custom lessons on a tune or a break in a song cost $45 each. These will become part of this library when completed. Most lessons are approximately 30 to 40 minutes long. If you are interested in a custom lesson, please contact us.

I also have a few tunes I've developed for my blind friend Dave Mitchell. He feels these would be acceptable to other blind guitarists. These tunes are explained with great detail about which finger and fret is being used because no tablature can be used in this learning process. If you are a blind guitarist, or have trouble learning from tablature, contact me regarding these lessons.

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Guitar tunes in Carter style
Beginning Flatpicking Guitar Tunes
Intermediate Flatpicking Guitar Tunes
Guitar Tunes in Crosspick style
Special Courses
Custom Lessons
Flatpicking Lead - Level 1
$35.00 Each - Includes CD & Tab
Angel Band
Blue Ridge Mountain Blues
Down In The Willow Gardens
Down the Road
Down Yonder
Ghost Riders in the Sky
I Want To Sing That Rock and Roll
John Henry
Long Black Veil
New River Waltz
Nobody’s Darlin’ But Mine
Old Joe Clark
Sugarfoot Rag
 
Flatpicking Lead - Level 2
$35.00 Each - Includes CD & Tab
Big Sandy River
Blackberry Blossom
Carroll County Blues NEW!
Church Street Blues
Cincinnati Rag
Country Blues
D-18 Song NEW!
Darlin’ Corey
Done Gone
Dueling Banjos NEW!
Fisher’s Hornpipe
Flower from the Fields of Alabama NEW!
Greenville Trestle High
Listen to the Mockingbird
Lonesome Ruben
Man of Constant Sorrow
Monroe’s Hornpipe
Ragtime Annie NEW!
Rainy Day Waltz
Red Haired Boy
( from Plain and Fancy CD)
Streamline Cannonball NEW!
Tennessee Waltz
Westphalia Waltz
Whiskey Before Breakfast
 
Flatpicking Lead - Level 3
$35.00 Each - Includes CD & Tab
Bye Bye Blues
Can't Take It With Me NEW!
Clinch Mountain Backstep NEW!
Dill Pickle Rag NEW!
Deep River Blues (flatpick version) NEW!
Ghost Train
Hobo Song
Jerusalem Ridge
Little Rock Getaway
Salt Creek (Variations)
Sledd Ridin
Sweet Georgia Brown
Washington County NEW!
 
Carter Style
$35.00 Each - Includes CD & Tab
Clinch Mountain Home
Lulu Walls
Wildwood Flower
Sourwood Mountain
 
Crosspicking
$35.00 Each - Includes CD & Tab
Bury Me Beneath The Willow
Deerfield
Home Sweet Home
Mountain View
Will You Miss Me
 
Tunes for the Blind Guitarist
$35.00 Each - Includes CD
Alabama Jubilee
Amy (from the Eagles)
Beaumont Rag
Bill Bailey
Bye Bye Blues
Down Yonder
East Virginia Blues
Florida Blues
Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
Man of Constant Sorrow
Ragtime Annie
Sourwood Mountain
Sweet Georgia Brown
Under The Double Eagle
Wabash Cannonball
Wildwood Flower
You Are My Flower
 
Special Courses
$42.00 Each - Includes CD & Tab
Recordings (2 CD's) plus Tab from my Laurel Ridge Workshop of  March 14 - 16 2008 are now available. A morning class on improvisations and an afternoon class of two tunes "The D-18 Song" and "Texas Gales". NEW!
Recordings (2 CD's) from my Laurel Ridge, NC workshop on 3/31/07, featuring the morning class "Rhythm and Runs" and the afternoon class of the tunes "Deep Forest Reel" and "Blue Ridge Mountain Blues." Comes complete with all tablature and chord charts for each session.
Recording from my Tallahassee FL workshop on 11/25/06, we learned the lead to a tune named Dixie Hoedown.
Recordings (2 CD's) from my West Grove, PA workshop on 11/4/06, morning class was titled The World of Runs and the afternoon was a lead class on a Bill Monroe tune named Ebenezer Scrooge
Recordings from my Frying Pan Park Workshops 3-22-03 #1 Rhythm & Runs and #2 Pickin’ It Out (Down Yonder, Red Wing, Tennessee Waltz)
Recordings from my Todd NC Old-time Workshop 1-25-03 (Runs and Back-up)
Introduction to different Strum Patterns in 4/4 and 3/4 timing. (Country - Carter style, Folk Music, Bluegrass, Western Swing)
Bluegrass Rhythm and Crosspick Rhythm (Tony Rice style)
Old Time Back-up (Mississippi Sawyer, John Brown’s Dream, Kiss Me Waltz)
Introduction To Country Guitar (Your Cheatin’ Heart, Cold Cold Heart)
Introduction to Fingerpicking (Freight-Train, Nine Pound Hammer)
Introduction to Upright Bass (Banks of the Ohio, In The Pines, Your Love is Like a Flower, Nine Pound hammer)