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12/20/25
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Country & Folk Fingerstyle Guidebook
Repertoire & Techniques for Country & Folk Fingerstyle Guitar
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About this course
Fingerstyle guitarists have insatiable appetites for new songs they can add to their repertoire. This is especially true for country and folk player whose audiences love to hear the instantly recognizable melodies of standards from the folk and country songbook.
Take Gareth Pearson’s Country & Folk Fingerstyle Guidebook to the shed and you’ll emerge with 8 new fingerstyle arrangements under your fingertips — enough to fill an entire set’s worth of crowd pleasers!
”The eight songs I've chosen for this songbook are instant crowd pleasers. Melodies that people recognize instantly, upbeat grooves and intricate harmonies that have multiple layers. They're also great exercises to learn standard boom chick patterns over extended chord progressions. Plus, you'll learn how to add inventive melodies on top of independent bass lines.”
Gareth will kick off the course with a relatively simple arrangement of the classic folk song, Greensleeves. You’ll then learn the Russian folk song Korobeiniki, also known as the Tetris theme. Next, you’ll dig into a dome home arrangement of I Am a Pilgrim and then the bluegrass standard, Old Joe Clark.
Two great jazz standards, Chinatown, My Chinatown and Whispering add a little diversity to your repertoire. You’ll wrap up with a great ragtime number, 12 Street Rag, and then finally, Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two).
Gareth has created beautiful rich arrangements of these classics that are all very accessible for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist. Each of these song arrangements are also great exercises for learning standard boom chick patterns over extended chord progressions and adding inventive melodies on top of independent bass lines.
Whether you gig out or just play for your own enjoyment, you’ll have a blast learning these timeless tunes and your audience will love them!
Gareth will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the Performance Studies. In addition, you’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s get pickin’ with Gareth Pearson!
Take Gareth Pearson’s Country & Folk Fingerstyle Guidebook to the shed and you’ll emerge with 8 new fingerstyle arrangements under your fingertips — enough to fill an entire set’s worth of crowd pleasers!
”The eight songs I've chosen for this songbook are instant crowd pleasers. Melodies that people recognize instantly, upbeat grooves and intricate harmonies that have multiple layers. They're also great exercises to learn standard boom chick patterns over extended chord progressions. Plus, you'll learn how to add inventive melodies on top of independent bass lines.”
Gareth will kick off the course with a relatively simple arrangement of the classic folk song, Greensleeves. You’ll then learn the Russian folk song Korobeiniki, also known as the Tetris theme. Next, you’ll dig into a dome home arrangement of I Am a Pilgrim and then the bluegrass standard, Old Joe Clark.
Two great jazz standards, Chinatown, My Chinatown and Whispering add a little diversity to your repertoire. You’ll wrap up with a great ragtime number, 12 Street Rag, and then finally, Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two).
Gareth has created beautiful rich arrangements of these classics that are all very accessible for the intermediate fingerstyle guitarist. Each of these song arrangements are also great exercises for learning standard boom chick patterns over extended chord progressions and adding inventive melodies on top of independent bass lines.
Whether you gig out or just play for your own enjoyment, you’ll have a blast learning these timeless tunes and your audience will love them!
Gareth will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the Performance Studies. In addition, you’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s get pickin’ with Gareth Pearson!
What you'll learn
- Navigate sophisticated jazz chord progressions in fingerstyle
- Play a complete fingerstyle arrangement of Daisy Bell with capo on 4th fret
- Integrate walking bass lines with melody
- Create dynamic contrast by letting harmony notes ring
- Incorporate diminished chord voicings into fingerstyle arrangements
Release date: 08/20/2018 • 1h 27m runtime
Sample lessons
I Am A Pilgrim
Performance
I Am A Pilgrim
Breakdown
Old Joe Clark
Performance
Old Joe Clark
Breakdown
What's included
19 lessons • 8 charts
Country & Folk Fingerstyle Guidebook
Hi, I'm Gareth Pearson, and welcome to my Country & Folk Fingerstyle Guidebook. The eight songs I've chosen for this songbook are instant crowd pleasers. Melodies that people recognize instantly, upbeat grooves and intricate harmonies that have multiple layers. They're also great exercises to learn standard boom chick patterns over extended chord progressions. Plus, you'll learn how to add inventive melodies on top of independent bass lines.
We'll start with relatively simple arrangements of folk songs like "Greensleeves". Then, we'll look at Russian folk song "Korobeiniki", also known as the Tetris theme. We'll play a down home gospel tune "I Am a Pilgrim" and a bluegrass standard "Old Joe Clark". We'll play jazz standards like "Chinatown, My Chinatown" and "Whispering". We'll look at a great ragtime number called "12 Street Rag". And finally, we'll be learning "Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)".
Whether you gigging out or just playing for your own enjoyment, these timeless tunes will motivate and inspire you to grab your guitar and not put it down. As always, all these songs are tabbed out for your convenience. Let's open up this songbook and make some music!
We'll start with relatively simple arrangements of folk songs like "Greensleeves". Then, we'll look at Russian folk song "Korobeiniki", also known as the Tetris theme. We'll play a down home gospel tune "I Am a Pilgrim" and a bluegrass standard "Old Joe Clark". We'll play jazz standards like "Chinatown, My Chinatown" and "Whispering". We'll look at a great ragtime number called "12 Street Rag". And finally, we'll be learning "Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)".
Whether you gigging out or just playing for your own enjoyment, these timeless tunes will motivate and inspire you to grab your guitar and not put it down. As always, all these songs are tabbed out for your convenience. Let's open up this songbook and make some music!
Greensleeves
"Greensleeves" is an English folksong, that — I'm sure — we've all heard before. It was apparently written by Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn. It's usually played with a ballad feel. But for the purpose of this course, I made a fingerstyle arrangement of it.
Greensleeves
"Greensleeves" is an English folksong, that — I'm sure — we've all heard before. It was apparently written by Henry VIII for Anne Boleyn. It's usually played with a ballad feel. But for the purpose of this course, I made a fingerstyle arrangement of it.
Tetris Theme
"Korobeiniki" is an old Russian folk song, a.k.a. the Tetris theme.
Tetris Theme
"Korobeiniki" is an old Russian folk song, a.k.a. the Tetris theme.
I Am A Pilgrim
"I Am a Pilgrim" is a gospel/folk song made popular by Merle Travis.
I Am A Pilgrim
"I Am a Pilgrim" is a gospel/folk song made popular by Merle Travis.
+ 12 more lessons
Reviews
17 results
guitarmantx
Verified buyer
10/07/25
Repertoire Builder
Great Course for Fingerstyle. it is challenging Great for your Repertoire, Gareth explains well,
leeofcalifornia
Verified buyer
09/26/25
Country and Fol Fingerstyle Guidebook
This is a fun course with enjoyable pieces which Gareth has put together. He demonstrates and explains the material very well. This is a really enjoyable fingerstyle repertoire course,
Davidhabermel
Verified buyer
09/15/25
Enjoy the Welsh accent. Good songs to learn folk and country techniques. Good material for intermediate pickers like me. Fantastic to find so many excellent players to study with…
g0j0e
Verified buyer
07/09/25
Great songs to learn, excellent teacher
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