>>New Target and Pay Per Lesson release - The Last Steam Engine Train - John Fahey

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TGCheryle
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Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:57 am

Hi Everyone,

Today's Target and Pay Per Lesson release is now live.

The Last Steam Engine Train has been a popular, and challenging instrumental piece for guitar players for nearly 50 years now. John Fahey wrote it and recorded it in the early 1960s for his album The Dance Of Death And Other Plantation Favorites. A few years later it was rearranged and covered by Leo Kottke for his Greenhouse album. This lesson goes over Fahey’s version, paying particular attention to creating your own variations. There is also an attachment included with text taken from the tab book ‘The Best Of John Fahey’, that gives us a bit of insight into this important, if not eccentric and possibly troubled, individual who added a great deal to our musical universe.

Enjoy this Level 8 lesson.

http://www.totallyguitars.com/target-so ... esson.html





haoli25
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Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:39 pm

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have always wanted to learn to play this.

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Fri Apr 13, 2012 12:59 pm

I am absolutely thrilled to see this.


willem
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Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:39 pm

I always liked the imagination of a running train in the music,,


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Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:08 pm


I love this too, it reminds me of Deep River Blues, the Doc Watson version.

Looking forward to breaking a few B strings in the process.

Matt


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Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:59 pm

Thanks Neil, this one will be a great challenge! I am looking forward to learning it. Beaker.


beaker
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Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:05 pm

Wow, that essay of John Fahey's that you included was quite interesting, but certainly went down some very strange paths!


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Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:32 pm

Thank you thank you thank you!!

I've been looking forward to more in the 'Doc's Guitar' mould, here's hoping the hours spent on that'll pay dividends with learning this.


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Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:26 am

Great lesson! I've been waiting for Neil to post this one since I first heard him playing around with it during a live stream.


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Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:24 pm

I've been sampling various versions of this, including by people on YouTube. Most of those are crap, or mediocre. This one's great (but for a couple of very minor flubs.)



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