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Apart from the Travis Picking, we've really only used our hybrid our "chicken picking" tools for lead playing. Now it's time to explore all the crazy cool sounds you can get once you start using hybrid picking in your rhythm playing. This will open up the door to a whole new world of rhythm parts and riffs that are so full of motion and rhythm that they could drive the whole groove completely on their own.

In this song tutorial, Caren Armstrong will teach "Foolish Games", as made famous by Jewel. We'll start with a song introduction and the gear and tone, then break down the chords and finger picking in the intro for you. Then we're on to the verse and the pre-chorus, leading us to the chorus parts. We'll learn the transition to the outro and the outro before we do a play along performance and a jam along.

In this set of lessons, Caren Armstrong will teach you "Keep on Truckin'", as made famous by Hot Tuna. We'll introduce the song and talk a bit about gear and tone, then look at the chord progression. Travis picking is up next, then we'll combine the two. After that we'll take a look at some variations, then learn the song ending. You'll learn a bonus riff before we do a play along performance and a jam along.

Anders will show you how to use a thumb pick to take your Travis picking technique to a new level.

Caren will show you the Travis picking used throughout this acoustic song. We will be playing in "Drop D" tuning for this song.

In this tutorial Caren Armstrong will show you the Travis picking acoustic guitar part that gets repeated throughout "Alice's Restaurant" as made famous by Arlo Guthrie