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Hi TG Team,

I would love to have a lesson on Dan Fogelberg's "Go Down Easy." Great fingerpicking song and a really cool guitar solo introduction.

Hi Neil, I would love to learn Amazed played fingerstyle as performed by Richard Armstrong in the attached YouTube video. This song was originally produced by Lonestar., and this shows what a single guitarist can do to convert a band played song in to a beautiful instrumental piece of music. Please consider this request, as this may serve as a foundation for students to try to learn how to do this with other songs as well.

Hello All

Neil mentioned this last year I think as a possible - Early Morning Rain by Peter, Paul & Mary

As an absolute beginner (or close to it), I’m always looking for songs that are relatively easy to play.

Don’t get me wrong, I have difficult stuff (or difficult for me) that I’m constantly working on, but easy is always good, as it increases my available “I can play this song” library – makes me feel better about myself, and in general adds to the FUN FACTOR (which with Guitar is all I really care about).

I stumbled across this song “Man of Constant Sorrow” which sounds great, seems to be in a “Dropped D” tuning, involves what appears to be three relatively easy (I think I can reach those) chords, and has a couple of seemingly simple riffs – so of course I immediately thought “Hey this might be a good song to learn”.

Wow – That’s a lot of unnecessary background information for a simple request, but here it goes . . .

I would like to request a lesson on “Man of Constant Sorrow”.

I hope this is the place to leave my recommendation. I enjoyed and had a reasonable amount of success with your lesson on Eric Clapton's, "Signe." I would like work on learning Doyle Dykes, "The Lord's Prayer." Thanks for your consideration. Bill Schroeder

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the suggestion. I added a video of Doyle playing it to your post, and I hope people get in the habit of doing that for requests. How is your tremolo? It is a big part of Doyle's arrangement. I will take it under consideration but he may have tab available already.

Neil

Hi Neil,

On one of your weekly update video posts you teased us with the possibility of an instrumental chord solo version of Linda Ronstadt's Long, Long Time. Is that still a possibility of being in the works? I would definitely jump on that one.

Thanks,

Craig

Hey Craig,

Thanks for the reminder. This lesson got started and then I made the mistake of listening carefully to Linda singing it again. That sent me down the rabbit hole of wrestling with trying to emulate all her subtle melodic embellishments. By the time I got over that, I had started a few other lessons. I will move it back up the list.

Neil

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO A LESSON ON SYLVIA BY FOCUS. YOUR VERSION OF THIS ON YOUTUBE IS BEYOND FANTASTIC

Hey,

Thanks for the kind words. I will definitely think about doing a lesson on Sylvia, now that I know somebody is interested. Gotta finish White Bird first...

Neil