Travis-Style Guitar From Scratch

Travistown
Solo Travis-Style fingerpicking
Fifth-string bass: The Am chord
Pinches
Sixth-string bass: The G chord
Scales over chords in the Key of G
Quarter note scales over chords
“Camptown Races”
“Oh! Susanna”
Scales over chords in the Key of C
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken”
“Red River Valley”
Songs in the Key of Am
“Amtrack Blues”
“God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen”
Triple alternating bass
“House of the Rising Sun”
Syncopation
Exercises
“Frere Jacques”
“Amtrack Blues”
Second pass through our favorites
“Camptown Races”
“Oh! Susanna”
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken”
“Red River Valley”
“God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen”

“House of the Rising Sun”
Picking patterns
“When the Saints Go Marching In”
Kicker notes
Chord tones
Third pass through our favorites
(same songs as the second pass)
“Ode to Joy”
Eighth notes
“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho”
“Buffalo Gals”
“Simple Gifts”
Bass runs
Slurs
Slurps
Fourth pass through our favorites (same songs as above)
New material
“Jingle Bells”
“Yankee Doodle”
“The Caissons Go Rolling Along”
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Key of A
“Mystery Tunes in A”
Key of E
Drop D Tuning
Parting gift