Shawn Phillips – The Ballad of Casey Deiss
Learn how to play Shawn Phillips – The Ballad of Casey Deiss note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty level: Intermediate (The main song is easy. The rhythmic outro is intermediate.)
Barre chords: Yes
Thumb over chords: No
Playing Style: Fingerpicked (main song). Strummed (outro)
Tuning: Standard
This lesson teaches the principal acoustic guitar part from the original album version. There are more than two guitar parts on the track, but here we focus on the main one allowing for a solo version.
The complete file contains 3 lesson videos, 2 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 390 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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