Gordon Lightfoot – Canadian Railroad Trilogy

Learn how to play Gordon Lightfoot – Canadian Railroad Trilogy note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Strummed throughout but with some fast, bluegrass-style strumming in places
Tuning: Drop D
The preview video contains the first part taken from the complete lesson for Canadian Railroad Trilogy. This section is slightly easier than some later parts.
The complete file contains 4 lesson videos (one per section of the song), 4 performance play thru videos, full tabs, chords and lyrics. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a zip file of 482 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.
If you want to download to an iPad or iPhone you’ll need an app to do so, please read here to know more about it.
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Junnie says
Hi Jerry
I would like to request a lesson of ” Simply Jessie” by Rex Smith.
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Laurie says
I didn’t have my credit card number yesterday and I thought the songs were $5.97. Did they change the price? I didn’t see anything in my cart.
Anonymous says
Some longer songs are $6.97. This one, with its three separate parts, is one of them.
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