Hopefully Helping your Finger Picking

Hi again.

I had a nice call last week from my old pal Seymour Duncan. He was in Toronto, telling me he'd be in my neck of the woods the next day. We met up and had dinner and reminisced about old times, thirty years ago, when we met. I was in London recording and rehearsing a band, and I'd just bought my first electric guitar -- a Fender Stratocaster -- at Fender Soundhouse. The sales person told me "If you need any adjustments done, take it in the back and ask Seymour to set it up for you", which he did. After we heard him play, he joined our band and we all trouped off to Frankfurt Germany for our one and only gig, at the Zoom Club. We went our own ways in late 1974, me moving to Australia, Seymour returning to the US. The rest, for him in particular, is history.

This week's lesson looks at the solo guitar part form CSNY's Helplessly Hoping, that classic that was already history when Seymour and I met. It's a finger picking part that uses the most sturdy off all patterns, so it's a good one to learn. As always, there are movies and tab and midi and plain English commentary ...

www.guitarforbeginners.com and follow the Weekly Lesson link.

Sign the guestbook while you're there! You'll be in the running for a Pluck à Lorange CD: 34 movie/tab/midi lessons and 24 mp3s. Mike Fletcher from the UK was last week's winner. I suspect he's twangin' away as you read.

This week's winner is Howie Ulmer, from Canada.

Don't forget the Master Lesson I have on offer: http://planetalk.thatllteachyou.com/xroads/ I've had some great feedback on it. It's an advanced look at dropped D slide guitar.

PlaneTalk - The Truly Totally Different Guitar Instruction Book continues to sell to the World at Large from my site http://planetalk.thatllteachyou.com. If you're one of the thousands of players who have hit the wall, and wonder how to bring all the bits and pieces together on the fretboard, how to SEE it all there, then do yourself the favor. You'll kick yourself for not seeing the obvious sooner, but you'll save yourself years of time, and the simple visualization technique will be your best friend for ever more. We discuss it all at our private forum.

There are several free lessons at the site as well.

All the best, 'til next week,

Kirk
http://www.kirklorange.com