Tom Rush – Child’s Song Guitar Lesson Info

Learn how to play Tom Rush – Child’s Song note-for-note on guitar with our Tom Rush – Child’s Song Guitar Lesson.
This lesson teaches an adapted version of Tom’s guitar part from the original studio version. The adapting is to so with his Travis picking style which is very irregular. In this lesson it’s been standardised to alternate root and 4th string consistently.
Difficulty level: Intermediate (Easy if you’re experienced with Travis picking)
Barre chords: No
Thumb over chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked (Travis Picked)
Tuning: Standard
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Tom Rush – Child’s Song Download Details
The complete lesson contains a lesson video and a performance-standard play-thru video. It also contains the guitar tabs as PDF files and a songsheet with the chords and the lyrics of the lesson (if applicable), also as PDF files.
The videos are MP4 format and will play on PC’s, Macs and most mobile devices.
You’ll receive an email with a Zip file containing a total of 4 files as follows:
- Part 1: Guitar Video Lesson
- Part 2: Performance-standard Playthru Video
- Part 3: Songsheet with tabs & lyrics
- Part 4: Guitar Tab
Total Download size: 238.6 Mb
You’ll need to extract the MP4 and PDF files from the Zip file/s to be able to use them and you’ll need software to do so. If you don’t have a Zip program on your PC you’ll need to install one to open the file. I use Peazip which you can get free, here.
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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Dennis James Daly says
This was originally a Murray McLaughlin song.
Tom Rush did a wonderful version of it many years ago.