Arlo Guthrie – St James Infirmary
Learn how to play Arlo Guthrie – St James Infirmary note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty Level: Advanced (only the instrumental solo is advanced. The rest is intermediate.)
Barre Chords: No
Thumb-Over Chords: Yes (Fmaj7)
Playing Style: Fingerpicked plus some fingernail strums
Tuning: Standard
The lesson teaches Arlo’s guitar part as played in several live shows and the Times Like These album. The guitar solo on Arlos’s original is a single note solo because he has the band backing him. In this lesson I’ve arranged the solo for singer-guitarists playing the song with no band.
The complete file contains 3 lesson videos, a performance play thru video, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 322 Mb containing all the lesson content.
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You’ll receive at least two videos per song, one lesson and one performance-standard play-through. You’ll receive the chords/lyrics and guitar tabs as PDF files.
The videos are mp4 format and should play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
They will download as Zip files. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file.
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Kenneth Wellington says
I like the way the songs are taught.
Carol says
First time I’ve ever done a thumb-over instead of a bar chord! I feel dirty. :D
Russ Glazer says
Jerry – I have purchased several songs, and you do a terrific job, and the lessons are very reasonably priced. Thank you for making this available. As for requests, please consider “Casey Jones,” (the Garcia/Grisman or Mississippi John Hurt version, not the Grateful Dead version), some Rev Gary Davis, some David Bromberg, and other roots music.