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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

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

Bill

I am absolutely thrilled to see this.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.)