
Jerry Silverman (born 1931) is an American folksinger, guitar teacher, and author of music books. He has had over 200 books published, which have sold in the millions, including folk song collections, anthologies, and method books for the guitar, banjo, and fiddle. He has taught guitar to hundreds of students. He has presented concerts and lectures at schools, universities, and concert halls in the U.S. and abroad.
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Billy Barlow
Overtures from Richmond
High Toned Southern Gentlemen
Who Will Care for Mother Now?
A Fast "Banjo" Strum: Viva La Quince Brigada
Things About Coming My Way
Introduction to Blues
Entreaty (Night-Blues)
Introduction
Walking Bass and Boogie Woogie
Battle Cry of Freedom
Basic Right Hand Finger Strum Exercise, (E minor-A minor) Oh Sinner Man
Greek Music in 7/8 Time
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Bass-Chord Thumb Strum: Putting on the Style (D-G-A7)Banks of the Ohio, (A-D-E7)Bile them Cabbage Down
Flat Pick and the Church Lick
Three-Quarter Time: I Never Will Marry
Basic Blues Arpeggio
Finger-Picking and the Independent Thumb
Chord Diagrams and Chords (D-A7) Hush, Little Baby
Tablature -MELTAB and GITAB
Bass Runs : see notes for songs
Chromatic Bass Runs
Peripatetic Pinky
Seven-Seventh Chord
Roll Alabama Roll
Alternating Bass: (Key of G) I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago,(Key of E) The Fox,(Key of C) Billy Barlow
Four Finger Picking
Another Blues Strum
The Break
Arpeggios: The Cruel War; Katinsha, (D minor-C7-B flat) Henry Martin
Come Home, Father
Just Before the Battle, Mother
Melody and Accompaniment
Choking the Strings
High Toned Southern Gentleman
South of the Border
Special Effects
Circle of Fiths
Just Before the Battle Mother
Barre Chords: The Muffle; Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
Tsigaynerlid (Gypsy Song)
Inversions
Bass-Chord Thumb Strum
Typical Bluegrass Run; My Home's Across the Smoky Mountains
Jarama Valley
Barre Chords; the Shuffle; Bill Bailey
Hammering-on; I am a Man of Constant Sorrow (4/4) Brown Eyes (3/4)
Church Lick with the Blues Wrinkle; Crawdad
Carter Family; Wildwood Flower, Bright Shines the Moon, In the Pines
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