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Contents
What You Should Know Before Starting This Book ......... 2
Chord Exercises ............................................................................ 5
Sixteenth Notes ............................................................................ 6
Mixin’ It Up .......................................................................... 6
The Happy Sailor .............................................................. 7
Variations on a Square Dance Tune ........................... 7
Etude in D ............................................................................ 7
Arpeggios ....................................................................................... 8
East Side, West Side ......................................................... 8
The Man on the Flying Trapeze .................................... 8
Scarborough Fair (duet) ................................................. 9
The Doo-Wop Ballad.................................................................10
My Angel Baby (duet) ...................................................11
Key of A Major ............................................................................12
Tunes That Teach Technic No. 1 ............................................13
Scale Etude in A Major ..................................................13
Arpeggio Etude ................................................................13
Hard, Ain’t It Hard ...........................................................14
Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here ....................................14
Sixteenth Note Studies in A Major .......................................15
Hammer-ons ...............................................................................16
John Hardy ........................................................................17
Old Blue .............................................................................17
Calypso .........................................................................................18
Hey Lolly Lolly ..................................................................19
The Sloop “John B.”.........................................................19
Key of D Minor............................................................................20
Key of E Major ...........................................................................24
Finger Exercise in E.........................................................25
The Blue Tail Fly ..............................................................25
Using Passing Notes in the Bass ...........................................26
Diminished 7th Chords............................................................28
You Tell Me Your Dream ...............................................29
Pull-offs .........................................................................................30
Country Dance .................................................................31
Blues in A...........................................................................31
The Polka (duet) ........................................................................32
Grace Notes .................................................................................34
Amazing Grace Notes ....................................................34
Colonel Bogey ..................................................................35
Augmented Chords ...................................................................36
Slides .............................................................................................38
Slidin’ Around (duet) .....................................................39
Tunes That Teach Technic No. 2 ............................................40
Devil’s Dream Hornpipe ...............................................40
Our Katie............................................................................40
Abide with Me (duet) ....................................................41
Beguine.........................................................................................42
Guitarra Romana (duet)...............................................42
Bends ............................................................................................44
Bending the Blues ..........................................................45
Pistol Pete ..........................................................................45
Counterpoint ...............................................................................46
Simple Melody (trio) .....................................................46

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Sicilian Tarantella ...........................................................21
Sixteenth Notes and 8 Time ..................................................22
The House of the Rising Sun (duet) .........................23
Tunes That Teach Technic No. 3 ............................................48
Onyx Club Hop.................................................................48
Just Lopin’ Along .............................................................48
Jingle for a Sunny Day ..................................................48

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The Doo-Wop Ballad

Key of C (Chords)
Track 9
In the 1950s a style of rock and roll ballad called doo-
wop became very popular. This type of song featured
many long held notes sung over an accompaniment of
triplets, played either as chords or arpeggios. Here are
Key of C a few samples of each.

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C 3 Am 3 F G7 3

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CHORDS:

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3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
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3

œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œœ .
THE SAME CHORDS PLAYED AS ARPEGGIOS:

4 œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ
C 3 3 Am 3 3 3 F 3
œ œ œ
G 3 3 7

& 4 œœ œœœ œ œ œ œ œ œœ œœœ œ œ œ œ œ.

œ 3 œ 3
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3 3 3 3 œ 3 œ 3
Key of G (Chords)
Important: Hold fingers down for the above arpeggios as long as possible.

Key of G
G 3 Em C D7

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CHORDS:

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3

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3 3

& 4 œœ Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û œœ œœœ œœ .
œœœ œœ 3 3 3
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

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Key of C Chords, with bass notes
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Key of C Chords, with Bass Notes

C Am F G7 C
3

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Key of C, with Variations

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C Am F G7 C

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Key of G Chords, with Bass Notes

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HEY LOLLY LOLLY Track 22 Student to learn both the strum and solo parts.
C Traditional
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G7 calypso song

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Û ‰ Û Û

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g
hey lol - ly, lol - ly lol - ly, hey lol - ly, lol - ly lo.
C

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G7

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Û Û Û Û Û Û Û

& œœ
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C
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then you try and make it rhyme, hey lol - ly, lol - ly lo.
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THE SLOOP “JOHN B.” Track 23

Calypso tempo
Introduction Traditional
j Gœ ‘ ‘
calypso song
# # 4 œœ Û Û Û ‰ œœ œ œœ Û Û Û ‰ œœ
TEACHER: D D

& 4 œœ œœ œœ ‘ ‘ œœ J œ
j j
So

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D G D G D

& œœ Û Û œœ
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hoist up the John B. sails, see how the main sail set,

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send for the cap-tain a - shore let me go
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œ œ œ Œ œ œ ‰ œ œœ
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D D7 G

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j j
home, please let me go home, I
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D A7 D G D

&
w wœ œ œ œ œ ‘ ww
feel so break up, > I wan - na go >
home.
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ABIDE WITH ME (DUET) Track 47

This arrangement of the lovely old hymn combines a chord/melody

p41 abide with me.mus solo in the 1st part with an arpeggio-style
accompaniment in the 2nd part. The student should learn both parts. Also, note that the accompaniment is
always played at a dynamic one level lower than the melody part.
The tempo indication Lento means to play slowly.
Words by Music by
Henry Francis Lyte William H. Monk

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1
2

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HOLD FINGERS DOWN AS LONG AS POSSIBLE

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