John Fahey – The Last Steam Engine Train

Learn how to play John Fahey – The Last Steam Engine Train note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Advanced
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked (Travis picked)
Tuning: Standard
This lesson teaches the track based on the original studio version and incorporating a few small tweaks he used in various live performances. It’s broken into three parts to make it more digestible while learning.
The complete file contains 3 lesson videos, 3 performance play thru videos and full tabs. You’ll receive a link to download the lesson which will download as a three zip files of 525 Mb total 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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Mark says
Very excited to see this one–can’t wait for more like this!
(Would love to see some Doc Watson, Mississippi John Hurt, Leo Kottke, etc, if ever possible)
Mark from Brooklyn