Townes Van Zandt – Pancho and Lefty

Learn how to play Townes Van Zandt – Pancho and Lefty note-for-note on guitar.
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Barre Chords: No
Thumb-Over Chords: Yes
Playing Style: Fingerpicked (it uses an unconventional variant of Travis picking)
Tuning: Standard
The lesson teaches Townes’s guitar part from the version on the Live at the Old Quarter album.
The complete file contains a lesson video, 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 213 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.
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Mike says
Thank you so much for taking the time to honor such a legendary song! Can’t wait to have it under my fingers. Cheers!
Charlie says
Hey Jerry!
Is this live version played the same way as the studio version note for note?
Many Thanks
Charlie
Jerry says
Hi Charlie. No it’s not. No 2 versions of this are played quite the same way. This is the Live at the Old Quarter version which is just Townes and his guitar.