This E-Book contains a number of picking patterns in the alternating bass style for beginners as well as some basic strumming patterns. While you are reading the TAB, click the speaker icon on each page to listen to how they should sound. If you are a left handed beginner please purchase Lefty’s Left handed Guitar [...]
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The Alternating Bass Style as performed by THE BLUES PREACHERS
12 tracks transcribed from their highly acclaimed albums:
‘Next Stop Beulah Land’ and ‘Dry Long So’
Includes TAB for songs by Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Robert Wilkins, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Blake and more.
Each page contains an embedded audio file. Click on the page to hear the track [...]
Here are some basic fingerpicking patterns in the alternating bass style designed to provide the ground work to be able to play like Mississippi John Hurt.
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