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SONG LISTS FOR ALL CLASSES (Scroll down to see all class levels)

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LEVEL 1 to 2+ CLASSES
Starting to Play (level 1)
Nine Basic Chords (E, A, D, G, C, F, Em, Am, Dm) 
Basic 4/4 time strum 
Me and Bobbie McGee - Janis Joplin, etc
Basic 3/4 time strum
The Brand New Tennessee Waltz  - Jesse Winchester, etc
Colours - Donovan, Joan Baez
Lightning Bar Blues - Hoyt Axton, Arlo Guthrie
Playing by ear discussion and examples
Four Strong Winds - Ian and Sylvia, Neil Young, etc.
Love Is Just a Four Letter Word-Joan Baez, Bob Dylan
Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan, The Byrds
Basic Arpeggio Strum in 4/4 Time
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away - Beatles
Scale in the Key of G
Bass Runs
Child’s Claim to Fame - Buffalo Springfield
Hickory Wind - Graham Parsons, Emmylou Harris, etc
Scarborough Faire - trad, Simon and Garfunkel
Eleanor Rigby - Beatles
If I Were a Carpenter - Tim Hardin, Joan Baez, etc
Mr Bojangles - Jerry Jeff Walker, etc
I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash, etc.

​Slow Track Fun #1 for Guitar and Uke (level 1+ and Up)
Nine Basic Chords (E, A, D, G, C, F, Em, Am, Dm) 
Basic 4/4 time strum 
Basic 3/4 time strum
C'est La Vie - Emmylou Harris, Chuck Berry, etc
Jambalaya - Hank Williams, Linda Ronstadt, etc
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson, Eva Cassidy, etc
You Are My Sunshine - Oh Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, etc
So Long, It's Been Good to Know You - Woody Guthrie
Take Me Back to Tulsa - Bob Wills, etc
Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, etc
Winter's Come and Gone - Gillian Welch
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
16 Tons - Merle Travis, Tennessee Ernie Ford
Satisfied Mind - Johnny Cash, etc
Michael Row the Boat Ashore - traditional
Shake Sugaree - Elizabeth Cotten, Grateful Dead, Rhiannon Giddons
​Oh Mary Don't You Weep - traditional
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

Slow Track Fun #2 for Guitar and Uke (level 1- 2 and up)
Nine Basic Chords (E, A, D, G, C, F, Em, Am, Dm) 
Basic 4/4 time strum 
Basic 3/4 time strum
If I Needed You - Townes Van Zandt, etc
Down in the Valley - traditional
Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers
Farther Along - traditional
Home - Bonnie Raitt, Karla Bonoff
Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia - Utah Phillips, Emmylou Harris
Oh Susanna - traditional
Pastures of Plenty - Woody Guthrie
Crying Time - Ray Charles, Buck Owens, etc
Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater
I've Just Seen a Face - Beatles
This Old Guitar - John Denver
Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams, Ray Charles, etc
A Horse With No Name - America

Slow Track Fun #3 for Guitar and Uke (level 1- 2 and up)
Nine Basic Chords (E, A, D, G, C, F, Em, Am, Dm) 
Basic 4/4 time strum 
Basic 3/4 time strum
I'm Walkin' - Fats Domino
Worried Man Blues - Carter Family, etc
Cool Water - Sons of the Pioneers, etc
Down to the Valley to Pray - Tim and Mollie O'Brien, Doc Watson, etc
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
​Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley
I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes - Carter Family, etc
Paradise - John Prine, etc
Across the Great Divide - Kate Wolf
Shady Grove - traditional
The Water Is Wide - traditional
Save the Last Dance for Me - Drifters, Dolly Parton, etc
Streets of Laredo (traditional)
Fever (Peggy Lee Version)
Solitary Man (Neil Diamond)
Wayfaring Stranger (traditional)

Slow Track Fun #4 for Guitar and Uke (level 1- 2 and up)
Go Down Moses (traditional)
Sloop John B (traditional/Lee Hays)
Casey Jones (traditional)
Wynken, Blynken and Nod (Lucy Simon)
Hound Dog (Elvis Presley version)
Give Yourself to Love (Kate Wolf)
Lean on Me (Bill Wither's version)
The Last Thing on My Mind (Tom Paxton)
Pancho and Lefty (Willie Nelson)
Imagine (John Lennon)
San Antonio Rose (Bob Wills)
Fields of Gold (Sting)
Your Cheating Heart (Hank Williams)
Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell)
​Tennessee Waltz

Slow Track Fun #5 for Guitar and Uke (level 1- 2 and up)
Edelweiss (from the Sound of Music)
Jamaica Farewell (Harry Belafonte version)
Wildflowers (Tom Petty)
Keep on the Sunny Side (from the Carter Family)
Hard Times (Stephen Foster)
Brown Eyed Girl (
Shenandoah (traditional Sea Chanty)
Wichita (Gillian Welch)
Baby What You Want Me to Do
Fragile (Sting)
Alabama Bound (traditional)
Get Together (
When Will I Be Loved (Everly Brothers)
Gold Watch and Chain (Carter Family)
Turn, Turn (Pete Seeger)
Sweetest Gift 

Slow Track #6 for Guitar and Uke (level 1- 2 and up)
Man of Constant Sorrow (traditional)
Blue Moon of Kentucky (Bill Monroe)
Where Have All the Flowers Gone (Pete Seeger)
Love Is a Rose (Neil Young)
Pretty Polly (traditional)
Chat With Your Mother (Lou and Peter Berryman)
Morningtown Ride (Malvina Reynolds)
Get Along Little Dogies (traditional)
Ticket to Ride (Beatles)
Rambler, Gambler (traditional)
Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Bob Dylan)
My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains (traditional)
Everyday People (Sly and the Family Stone)
I'll Fly Away (Trio version)
​St James Infirmary (traditional)

Folk Standards (level 1-2)
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere - Bob Dylan, etc.
Bottle of Wine - Tom Paxton
Your Cheatin’ Heart - Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, etc
As Tears Go By - Rolling Stones
Farewell Angelina - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez
North Country Blues - Bob Dylan
Danny’s Song - Loggins and Messina, Anne Murray
I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt
The Goodnight Loving Trail - Utah Phillips
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard, Grateful Dead
Deportees - Woody Guthrie, etc
Apple Picker’s Reel - Larry Hanks
Ramblin’ Round - Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, etc
Birmingham Sunday - Richard and Mimi Farina
I Shall Be Released - Bob Dylan, The Band
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell
The Boxer - Simon and Garfunkle
Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkle

LEVEL 2 and 2+ CLASSES
Folk Favorites #1 (level 2)
Long Black Veil - Joan Baez, the Band, Mick Jagger
Piney Wood Hills -  Buffy Saint-Marie
A Stranger in My Place -  Kenny Rogers, Joan Baez
Let it Be -  Beatles
No Expectations - Rolling Stones
Children of Darkness -  Richard and Mimi Farina
Peaceful Easy Feeling -  Eagles
Never My Love -  The Association
Sing Me Back Home -  Merle Haggard
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down - trad Bluegrass song, Grateful Dead
Ticket to Ride - Beatles
Woody Knows Nothin’-  American traditional song
Loving Arms -  Dobie Gray
Hey, Good Lookin’ -  Hank Williams, etc
Columbus Stockade Blues -  traditional Bluegrass
Ripple -  Grateful Dead
Early Mornin’ Rain -  Gordon Lightfoot

Folk Favorites #2 (level 2)
I Pity the Poor Immigrant - Bob Dylan, Judy Collins
Siver Threads & Golden Needles - Linda Rondstadt
Hey Jude - Beatles
Jambalaya - Hank Williams, Emmylou Harris, etc
Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Carter Family, etc
I Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound -
Tom Paxton, Judy Collins
Catch the Wind - Donovan
Geordie - traditional ballad/ Joan Baez, etc.
Circle Game - Joni Mitchell
Tramp on the Street - Ramblin Jack Elliot, etc
Frisco Depot - Mickey Newberry, Joan Baez
Tennessee Stud - Doc Watson, etc.
San Francisco Bay Blues - Jesse Fuller, Eric Clapton
Teach Your Children Well - Crosby, Stills and Nash
Turquoise - Donovan, Joan Baez

Light Rock and Pop #1 (level 2+) Intro to Flatpicking 
Get Together - Indigo Girls, Jesse Colin Young
Love Me Do - Beatles 
Angie - Rolling Stones
Jerusalem - Steve Earle, Joan Baez
Woodstock - Joni Mitchell, Buffalo Springfield, etc
One Step Up - Bruce Springsteen
I Fought the Law - Green Day, etc
Stand By Me - Ben E. King, etc
Love Has No Pride - Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt
First Cut Is the Deepest - Cat Stevens, Sheryl Crow
Handyman - James Taylor, etc
​Heart of Gold - Neil Young
House of the Rising Sun - Animals, Bob Dylan
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away - Beatles
Pink Cadilac - Bruce Springsteen, etc
Take It to the Limit - Eagles

Light Rock and Pop #2 (level 2+) Intro to Flatpicking
No Reply - Beatles 
Passionate Kisses - Lucinda Williams, Mary Chapin Carpenter
Forever Young - Bob Dylan
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door - Bob Dylan
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band, Joan Baez
La to the Left - Lyle Lovett
Say You Love Me - Fleetwood Mac
American Pie - Don McLean
Help! - Beatles
Crazy Love - Van Morrison
Fragile - Sting
Mississippi - Bob Dylan, Dixie Chicks
Kansas City - blues shuffle/various artists
Cat’s in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

Easy Classic Rock #1 (level 2+) Flatpicking
Take It Easy - Eagles
8 Days a Week - Beatles
Helpless - Neil Young
I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party - Beatles
Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
The Weight - The Band
I’ve Just Seen a Face - Beatles
Desperado (easy version) - Eagles
Under the Boardwalk - Drifters
Let It Be Me - Everly Bros
Drift Away - Dobie Gray
That’ll Be the Day - Buddy Holly
Wild World - Cat Stevens
Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry
Please Please Me - Beatles
Things We Said Today - Beatles
Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran, Alan Jackson


Easy Alternative Rock #1 (level 2+)
I Will Follow You into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie
Make You Feel My Love - Bob Dylan, Adele
Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's
The Waiting - Tom Petty
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Eli the Barrow Boy - The Decemberists
Sunny Came Home - Shawn Colvin
Can't Let Go - Lucinda Williams
How to Save a Life - The Fray
A Change Is on the Way - Shawn Colvin and Patty Griffin
Cannonball - Damien Rice
Hiding My Heart - Brandi Carlile
Just Breathe - Pearl Jam

Easy Alternative Rock #2 (level 2+)
Imagine - John Lennon
21 Guns - Green Day
Strong Enough - Sheryl Crow
Queen of California - John Mayer
​Someone Like You - Adele
All Fall Down - Shawn Colvin
Sunrise - Norah Jones
Mean - Taylor Swift
I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
Wonderwall - Oasis
Firecracker - Wailin'Jennys

Easy 21st Century Rock, Folk and Country (level 2+ and Up) 
Gravity - John Mayer
Strong Enough - Sheryl Crow
Sunrise - Norah Jones
I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
Rolling in the Deep - Adele
Mean - Taylor Swift
​Sons and Daughters - The Decemberists
Budapest - George Ezra
Wagon Wheel - OldCrow Medicine Show 
Be Careful - Patty Griffin
Begin - Wailin' Jenneys
Born to Be Loved - Lucinda Williams
Dear Someone - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
I Will Wait - Mumford and Sons
Let Her Go - Passenger
Upside Down - Jack Johnson 
Just Give Me a Reason - Pink

Easy 21st Century Rock, Folk and Country #2 (level 2+ and Up)
Half of My Heart - John Mayer
Carry On - Fun
Ho Hey - Lumineers
Someone Like You - Adele
Begin Again - Taylor Swift
This Heart of Mine - Wailin Jenneys
Understand You - Eric Taylor
20 Years - Civil Wars
Colour Me In - Damien Rice
Believe - Mumford and Sons
All Fall Down - Shawn Colvin
Friend of Mine - Edie Brickell and Steve Martin
First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes
Weary Kind - Ryan Bingham

21st Century Rock, Folk and Country #3 (level 2+ and up)
Hold Back the River - James Bay
Make You Feel My Love - Bob Dylan
21 Guns - Green Day
Wonderwall - Oasis
Queen of California - John Mayer
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
​Weeping in the Promised Land - John Fogerty
Sunny Came Home  - Shawn Colvin
Before It Breaks - Brandi Carlile

LEVEL 2-3 CLASSES
Country Classics #1 (level 2-3) Intro to Flatpicking
Swingin' Doors - Merle Haggard
Keep on the Sunnyside - Carter Family
Jimmie Brown the Newsboy - Carter Family, Flatt and Scruggs
Act Naturally - Buck Owens, Beatles
Wabash Cannonball - Carter Family, etc
Rock, Salt and Nails - Utah Phillips, Joan Baez, etc
Singin' the Blues - Guy Mitchell
Live and Let Live - Bill Monroe 
Louisville Burglar - Trad American Ballad
Wild Side of Life - Kitty Wells
Mother, the Queen of My Heart - Jimmie Rodgers
Lady of Carlisle - Trad American Ballad
Bye, Bye Love - Everly Brothers
Sad Situation - Tracy Nelson
Lost Highway - Hank Williams
The Two Soldiers - Trad American Ballad
Legend in My Time - Everly Brothers
Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down - Merle Haggard

Country Classics #2 (level 2-3) Intro to Flatpicking
Life’s Railway to Heaven - Linda Ronstadt, etc
Kickin’ Our Hearts Around - Buck Owens
Louise - Paul Seibel, Bonnie Raitt
Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers
Why Don’t You Love Me - Hank Williams
Do Re Me - Woody Guthrie
I’m a Lonesome Fugitive - Merle Haggard
Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
Running Away from the Blues - Roy Orbison, Tracy Nelson
Miss the Mississippi and You - Jimmie Rodgers, Emmylou Harris, etc
​8 More Miles to Louisville - Grandpa Jones
You’ve Been a Friend to Me - Carter Family
What’s Made Milwaukee Famous - Jerry Lee Lewis
Crazy Arms - Ray Price
You’re Still on My Mind - George Jones, the Byrds
I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline
Jealous Hearted Me - Carter Family
I Can’t Help It - Hank Williams, Patsy Cline

Country Classics 3 (level 2-3) Intro to Flatpicking
Tiger By the Tail - Buck Owens
Weeping Willow - Carter Family, Ricky Skaggs
Mind Your Own Business - Hank Williams
Give Me the Roses While I Live - Stanley Brothers
Making Believe - Kitty Wells, Emmylou Harris
Darlin Cory Is Gone - Tony Rice, etc
The Race Is On - George Jones, Grateful Dead
Crazy - Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline
Don’t This Road Look Rough and Rocky - Trad Bluegrass
San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills
Sweet Dreams - Patsy Cline
Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home - Greg Brown, Nashville Bluegrass Band
Think of What You’ve Done - Stanley Bros
Fair and Tender Ladies - Trad American
Walking the Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb
You Done Me Wrong - Ray Price
Please Help Me I’m Falling - Hank Locklin
Take This Job and Shove It - Johnny PayCheck

Country Classics  #4 (level 2-3) Intro to Flatpicking
I’ll Go Steppin’ Too - Flatt and Scruggs
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens
Today I Started Loving You Again - Merle Haggard
The Wreck of the Old Number Nine - Doc Watson
I’m Satisfied With You - Fred Rose, Good Ol’ Persons
I’m Movin On - Hank Snow, Emmylou Harris
Beneath Still Waters - Dallas Frazier, Emmylou Harris
Waltz Across Texas with You - Ernest Tubb
​Heartaches by the Number - Guy Mitchell, Harlan Howard
Long Gone Lonesome Blues - Hank Williams
Down to the Valley to Pray - Trad American
You and My Old Guitar - Jimmie Rodgers
Could You Love Me One More Time - Stanley Bros
Ashes of Love - Johnnie and Jack, Jim and Jesse McReynolds
Goin’ Gone - Kathy Mattea
Untold Stories - Tim O’Brien and Hot Rize
Mama’s Hungry Eyes - Merle Haggard
Sweet Sunny South - Trad American
Love’s Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens

Already Picking Some  (level 2-3) Intro to Travis Style
Country Roads -  John Denver
Pack Up You Sorrows - Richard and Mimi Farina, Joan Baez
Yesterday - The Beatles
Reason to Believe - Tim Hardin, Rod Stewart
Tomorrow is a Long Time -  Bob Dylan, Judy Collins
The Last Thing on My Mind -  Tom Paxton
How to Use Bass Runs w/ Travis Patterns
Someday Soon - Ian and Sylvia, Judy Collins, Suzy Boggus
How to Read Tablature and Practice Exercises
Help!  (in Travis style) -  The Beatles
Anywhere Like Heaven -  James Taylor
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
Helplessly Hoping - Crosby, Stills and Nash

Easy Acoustic Rock #1 (level 2-3)  Flatpicking
Tell Me Why - Beatles
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
Sloop John B - Beach Boys
Darkness, Darkness - Jesse Colin Young
Moondance - Van Morrison
I Hurt Myself Today - Nine Inch Nails, Johnny Cash
I Am a Child - Neil Young
You’re No Good - Linda Ronstadt, etc
All Along the Watchtower -  Bob Dylan, Jimmie Hendrix
You're Gonna Lose That Girl - Beatles
Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly
Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
California Dreamin' - Mamas and Papas

Easy Acoustic Rock #2  (level 2-3)  Flatpicking
Can’t Buy Me Love - Beatles
My Hometown - Bruce Springsteen
Ticket to Ride - Beatles
My Back Pages - Bob Dylan
Tequila Sunrise - Eagles
You Won’t See Me - Beatles
By My Side - Ben Harper
Bring It on Home - Sam Cooke
Don’t Dream It’s Over - Crowded House
It’s in His Kiss - Dusty Springfield, etc.
Angel - Sarah McLaughlan
If I Fell - Beatles
​You Don’t Have to Cry - Crosby, Stills and Nash
Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls

Easy Americana #1 (level 3)
Imagine - Eva Cassidy Version
San Diego Serenade - Tom Waits
After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
Seven Curses - Bob Dylan 
My Hometown - Bruce Springsteen
High Sierra - Linda Ronstadt/Emmylou Harris/Dolly Parton version
Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez

Easy Americana #2 (level 3) New Class! Music to be decided

Music Theory for Guitar  (level 2-3)
How to read music and tablature
Time Signatures
Key Signatures
Scales in the keys of E, A, D, G, C and F
Ionian Mode
Building major chords
Aeolian Mode
Building minor chords
Dominant 7ths
Suspended 4ths and 2nds
Transposing chords
Circle of Fifths
Intervals
Chord Inversions
Mixolydian Mode
Dorian Mode
Blues scales and chord accompaniment
Major 6ths
Major 7ths
9ths, 11’s and 13th’s
Arranging a song
Augmented and Diminished chords
​Chord substitution

Jamming and Playing By Ear  (level 2-3)
​The practical side of theory and the tools you need to be able to figure out a song off a CD or to jam with others without the aid of written music with basic Ear training. You will learn to refer to chords using a numbering system. You'll also learn to recognize familiar chord progressions and the use of chord patterns in song structure.

Beyond Boom Chuck #1 (Level 2-3)
Learn how to blend a variety of rhythmic patterns, runs and fills to create arrangements that are much more dynamic and that hold our attention. Songs included cover a variety of styles. Focus is on technique.

Beyond Boom Chuck #2 (Level 2-3)
Different songs, but otherwise just like Beyond Boom Chuck #1. Learn how to blend a variety of rhythmic patterns, runs and fills to create arrangements that are much more dynamic and that hold our attention. Songs included cover a variety of styles. Focus is on technique.

Please see Multi-level classes in the next column for more level 2-3 classes!

LEVEL 3 CLASSES
Expanded Repertoire #1 (level 3)
​Home - Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt
The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia - Utah Phillips, Emmylou Harris
Together Again - Buck Owens, Emmylou Harris
You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor
This Old Guitar - John Denver
Always Late - Lefty Frizzel, Tim O’Brien
Garden Song - Dave Mallet, Pete Seeger
My Songbird - Jesse Winchester, Emmylou Harris
Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris
Bartender Blues - James Taylor, George Jones
Rock Me on the Water - Jackson Browne
Half As Much - Hank Williams
Song For the Asking - Paul Simon
Gypsy Rover - Trad (many artists cover it)
The House Carpenter - Trad (many artists cover it)
Faithless Love - J.D. Souther, Linda Ronstadt
Oklahoma Hills - Jack Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie
Chelsea Morning - Joni Mitchell
One Morning in May - Trad (many artists cover it)

Expanded Repertoire #2 (level 3)
The Rose - Amada McBroom, Bette Midler
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris
Longer - Dan Fogelberg
Roseville Fair - Bill Staines
The Water Is Wide - Trad, Karla Bonoff/James Taylor version
Love Is a Rose - Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt
Wandering - Trad, James Taylor version
Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies - Trad (my version)
One of These Days - Emmylou Harris
Don Quixote - Gordon Lightfoot
Amanda - Waylon Jennings, Jody Stecher, etc
Heart Like a Wheel - McGarrigal Sisters, Linda Ronstadt
For Free - Joni Mitchell
High on a Mountain - Ola Belle Reed, Hot Rize, etc
River - Bill Staines
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac, Dixie Chicks
Fountain of Sorrow - Jackson Browne
Give Yourself to Love - Kate Wolf

Expanded Repertoire #3 (level 3)
Home Again - Carole King
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
Faithful - Eric Anderson, Linda Ronstadt
Sisters of Mercy - Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins
Peach Pickin’ Time in Georgia - Jimmie Rodgers
Love Minus Zero, No Limit - Bob Dylan
Annie’s Song - John Denver
Leavin’ Home - Charlie Poole, NLC Ramblers
Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens
Every Day - Buddy Holly, James Taylor
So Begins the Task - Stephen Stills
We Can Work It Out - Beatles
Time Passes Slowly - Bob Dylan
Fire and Rain (easy version) - James Taylor
If You Could Read My Mind Love - Gordon Lightfoot
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
Wild Mountain Thyme - trad (many artists cover it)
Across the Great Divide - Kate Wolf (fingerstyle version) 

Expanded Repertoire #4 (level 3)
Once in a Very Blue Moon - Nanci Griffith
Love Chooses You - Laurie Lewis, Kathy Mattea
Redbird’s Wing - Bill Staines
Blue Night - Kirk McGee, Hot Rize, etc.
Geraldine and Ruthie Mae - Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, Blue Rose 
Won’t You Come and Sing For Me - Hazel Dickens, Hot Rize
The Lilac and the Apple Tree - Kate Wolf
Trail of Tears - Peter Rowan
Gulf Coast Highway - Nanci Griffith
Hobo Meditation - Jimmie Rodgers, Merle Haggard, Linda Ronstadt
It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - Bob Dylan
Waltz for You - Sarah Elizabeth Campbell
Fragile - Sting
Farther Along - traditional, Dolly Parton et al
Cuba - Irving Berlin, Any Old Time String Band, etc
B.S.U.R. - James Taylor
Lay Down Your Weary Tune - Bob Dylan
Angel From Montgomery - John Prine, Bonnie Raitt

Intermediate Fingerstyle Guitar
​(also known as Already Picking Some More) (level 3)
Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
Suspended 2nds and 4ths chord sheet
Gentle on My Mind - John Hartford
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
Dangling Conversation - Simon and Garfunkle
Streets of London - Ralph McTell
Wildwood Flower - Intro to Maybelle Carter style
Freight Train - Intro to Piedmont style blues
Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Maybelle Carter style
Railroad Bill - Etta Baker, Taj Mahal, etc

Easy Classic Rock #2 (level 3) Flatpicking
Fields of Gold - Sting, Eva Cassidy, etc
Joy to the World - Three Dog Night, Hoyt Axton
I Will - Beatles, Alison Krauss, etc
Walk on By - Dionne Warwick
Save the Last Dance for Me - Ben E. King, Dolly Parton, etc
When will I Be Loved - Everly Bros, Linda Ronstadt
Solitary Man - Neil Diamond 
Lay, Lady, Lay - Bob Dylan
Someone to Lay Down Beside Me - Linda Ronstadt, Karla Bonoff
Imagine - John Lennon, etc
Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills and Nash
Norwegian Wood - Beatles
Wonderful World - Sam Cooke, Simon and Garfunkle w/James Taylor
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band, Joan Baez

​Bluegrass and Country Leads (songs level 2-3; leads level 3-4)
(Formerly called Bluegrass and Carter Style #5). This class is taught in sequence. All Bluegrass and Country Leads classes are the same level, just different songs.)

Bluegrass and Country Leads #1 (Songs 2-3, leads 3-4)
Little Moses - Carter Family, Joan Baez, etc
Are You Tired of Me My Darling - Carter Family, many bluegrass bands
In the Pines - Bill Monroe, Stanley Bros, etc
Lover’s Return - Carter Family, Trio (Ronstadt, Harris, Parton)
I’ll Fly Away - O Brother soundtrack, etc
Once More - Standard bluegrass song
Little Cabin Home on the Hill - Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs, etc
Angel Band - Stanley Bros, etc
Distant Land to Roam - Carter Family, Keith Little, etc
John Hardy - Carter Family, etc
How Long Have I Been Waiting - Seldom Scene, Jonathan Edwards
Little Birds - Laurie Lewis, Carol McComb
Black Water - Jean Ritchie, Laurie Lewis
New River Train - Bill Monroe, etc
Wake Up Little Susie - Everly Bros
Blues for Your Own - High Country, Sally Van Meter

Bluegrass and Country Leads #2 (Songs 2-3, leads 3-4)
You Are My Sunshine - O Brother, etc
Goin’ to the West - Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum, etc
Blue Moon of Kentucky (in 3/4 and in 4/4) - Bill Monroe, Elvis Presley
Your Long Journey - Doc and Rosa Lee Watson
Waterbound - Kathy Kallick, etc
Flora, the Lily of the West - Tim O’Brien, Joan Baez, Chieftains
Darlin’ Cora - trad, many artists
Hard Times - Stephen Foster, many artists
Worried Man Blues - Carter Family, Kingston Trio, etc
50 Miles of Elbow Room - Carter Family
Goodbye Song - Carol McComb
Caleb Meyer - Gilliam Welch
Man of Constant Sorrow (bluesy version) - O Brother, etc

Bluegrass and Country Leads #3 (Songs 2-3, leads 3-4)
The Storms Are on the Ocean - Carter Family, Doc Watson, etc
Down Among the Budded Roses - Vern Williams, Keith Little
Big Rock Candy Mtns - O Brother
My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mtns - Trad, many artists
I Am Weary - O Brother
Black Jack David - Carter Family, many artists
Muleskinner Blues - Bill Monroe, etc
Pastures of Plenty - Woody Guthrie. etc
Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms - many artists
Carter’s Blues - Carter Family, etc
Anchored in Love - Carter Family, etc
My Grandfather’s Clock - many artists
Why Can’t You Love Me - Jones and Leva
Train on the Island - Mike Seeger, many artists
Rose of My Heart - many artists
I Never Will Marry - Carter Family, Kathy Kallick, etc
So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You - Woody Guthrie, etc

Bluegrass and Country Leads #4 (Songs 2-3, leads 3-4)
Shady Grove - standard bluegrass and old-time song
Engine 143 (Wreck of the C and O) - Carter Family, etc
I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes - Carter Family, etc
Walking Boss - Clarence Ashley, etc
Meet Me in the Moonlight - Carter Family, etc
Little Sadie - Doc Watson, Bob Dylan, etc
Brown’s Ferry Blues - Delmore Bros, etc
The Two Soldiers - trad, Mike Seeger, etc
High on a Mtn (in G) - Ola Belle Reed, Hot Rize, Laurie Lewis, etc
Things in Life - Don Stover
Blue Days, Black Nights - standard bluegrass tune
Coal Miner’s Blues - Carter Family
Old Memories Mean Nothing to Me - Carol Elizabeth Jones
Wayfaring Stranger (Bill Monroe version) - Bill Monroe, etc
Man of Constant Sorrow (Ralph Stanley version) - O Brother

Bluegrass and Country Leads #5 (Songs 2-3, leads 3-4)
We Live in Two Different Worlds - Fred Rose, Tim and Mollie O’Brien
Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow - Carter Family. etc
Paradise - John Prine, John Denver
The Ship That Never Returned - Carter Family, etc
Sweet Heaven in My View - Carter Family, etc
No Reply - Beatles
Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow - Carter Family, etc
Free Little Bird - trad, many old-time artists
Banks of the Ohio - Doc Watson, Joan Baez, etc
Silver Dagger - Joan Baez, etc
Salty Dog - Flatt and Scruggs, etc
North Country Blues - Bob Dylan, etc
Eight More Miles to Louisville - Grandpa Jones, etc
Across the Great Divide - Kate Wolf
On the Rock Where Moses Stood - Carter Family
My Baby Came Back - Louvin Bros, Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum
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Bluegrass and Country Leads #6 (Songs 2-3, leads 3-4)
Sinking in the Lonesome Sea - Carter Family
Will the Roses Bloom - Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice, etc
Single Girl, Married Girl - Carter Family, etc
Gotta Travel On - Jim and Jesse, etc
Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia - Utah Phillips, Emmylou Harris
Crawdad Song - Doc Watson, etc
Slightly Blind - John Herald
Ballad of Ira Hayes - Peter La Farge
My Home Among the Hills - Carter Family
Red Rocking Chair - trad, Suzanne Thomas
Haven of Mercy - Laurie Lewis
Lonesome Wind Blues - Rhonda Vincent
Adieu False Heart - Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy
This Little Light of Mine - Pete Seeger, etc
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Bluegrass and Country Leads #7 (Songs 2-3, leads 3-4)
Little Annie - Vern and Ray, Laurie Lewis, etc
Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar - Delmore Brothers
Rank Stranger - Stanley Bros, etc
Foggy Mtn Top - Monroe Bros, Flatt and Scruggs, etc
Who Will Watch the Home Place - Laurie Lewis
Footprints in the Snow - Bill Monroe, etc
Coo Coo Bird - Clarence Ashley, etc
House Carpenter - Clarence Ashley, etc
Rain and Snow - High Country, Suzanne Thomas
Handsome Molly - trad, Tim O’Brien, etc
Darlin’ Cory Is Gone - standard bluegrass song
Acony Bell (Duet) - Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Diamond Joe - Joe Val, Laurie Lewis
Oh My Little Darlin’ - Mike Seeger
Railroading on the Great Divide - Sara Carter, etc
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LEVEL 3-4 CLASSES
Modern Folk and Country #1  (level 3-4)
Trouble in the Fields - Nanci Griffith
Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses - Kathy Mattea
Home is Where the Heart Is - Clive Gregson
My Sweet Wyoming Home - Bill Staines
Come from the Heart - Guy Clark, Kathy Mattea
The Dance - Garth Brooks
Til Each Tear You Cry Becomes a Rose - Keith Whitley, Alison Krauss
Southland in the Springtime - Indigo Girls
Burnin’ Old Memories - Kathy Mattea
There’s a Rose - Karla Bonoff
Listen to the Radio - Nanci Griffith
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Arrow - Cheryl Wheeler
Unwed Fathers - John Prine, Tim and Mollie O’Brien
Under African Skies  (in A) - Paul Simon
Leavin’ Louisiana in the Broad Daylight - Emmylou Harris
From a Distance - Nanci Griffith, Bette Midler, etc
When Halley Came to Jackson - Mary Chapin Carpenter

Modern Folk and Country #2  (level 3-4)
The River Knows Your Name - John Hiatt
I Wish It Would Rain - Nancy Griffith
Solo Tus Ojos - Tish Hinohosa & Peter Rowan
Harmless - Ferron
Love Will Come to You - Indigo Girls
Northern Girl - Cheryl Wheeler
Family - Pierce Pettis
Cow Song - John Gorka
You’re Aging Well - Dar Williams
Why Walk When You Can Fly - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Diamond in the Rough - Shawn Colvin
You Say Nothing at All - Alison Krauss
The Bird I Held in My Hand - T-Bone Burnett
Orphan Girl - Gillian Welch
Past the Point of Rescue - Mary Black’s version
In the Dark with You - Greg Brown

Modern Folk and Country #3  (level 3-4)
Blue - Leanne Rimes
Silver Lining - Cheryl Wheeler
Legacy - Pierce Pettis
Troubled Mind - Catie Curtis
One More Dollar - Gillian Welch
Gallileo - Indigo Girls
Talk to Me While I’m Listening - Nanci Griffith
I’d Fall for You - Cosy Sheridan
The River and the Highway - Pam Tillis
Something that We Do - Clint Black
This Was Pompei - Dar Williams
Spring Wind - Greg Brown

Modern Folk and Country #4  (level 3-4)
75 Septembers - Cheryl Wheeler
One Drop of Rain - Tim O’Brien
The Promise - Tracy Chapman
I Think About You - Colin Raye, Steve Seskin
Texas Bluebonnets - Laurie Lewis
Aces - Cheryl Wheeler
33, 45, 78 Record Time - Kathy Mattea
To Live is to Fly - Townes Van Zandt
Mandolin Rain - Bruce Hornsby, Pam Tillis
February - Dar Williams
Ghost - Indigo Girls
Your Love Amazes Me - John Berry

Modern Folk and Country #5  (level 3-4)
Sylvia Hotel - Cheryl Wheeler
You Don’t Have to Move that Mountain - Keith Whitley
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Late in the Day - Tim O’Brien
Love at the Five and Dime - Nanci Griffith
Tell Everybody I Know - Keb’ Mo’
Never Got Off the Ground - Alison Krauss
William, the Streak - Bob Franke
Watershed - Indigo Girls
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Lord I Have Made You a Place in My Heart - Greg Brown

Country & Blues Instrumentals A (level 3+ to 4)) Note harder level
Little Darling Pal of Mine - Carter Family, Joan Baez, etc
My Creole Belle - John Hurt
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down #2 - trad, Grateful Dead, etc
My Creole Belle #2 - John Hurt
Sugar Babe - Mance Lipscomb
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down #1 - New Lost City Ramblers, etc
Fennario - Joan Baez
East Virginia Blues - Carter Family
Stackerlee - New Lost City Ramblers, etc
Wabash Cannonball - Carter Family, etc
James Alley Blues - trad blues tune
O Take Me Back - Carter Family
Pretty Polly - trad Appalachian
Blackbird - Beatles
Darcy Farrow - Steve Gillette, etc
Gospel Ship - Carter Family, Joan Baez
Living in the Country - Pete Seeger
Jimmy Brown the Newsboy - Carter Family, Flatt and Scruggs
Handsome Molly - trad, many artists
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Celtic Tradition #1 (level 3-4)  All traditional unless noted
Handout about Celtic Tradition
The Blacksmith
Handsome Cabin Boy
Fair Beauty Bright
Captain Kidd
John of Hazelgreen
Katy Cruel
Black Jack Davy
Death of Queen Jane
The Jeannie C. (Stan Rogers)
Rose of Allendale
The Jolly Soldier (a version of Earl Brand)
The Farmer’s Curst WIfe (for reference only)
The Widow’s Promise (Mick Ryan)
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Celtic and American Roots #1  (level 3+ to 4+) Note higher level
Wagoner’s Lad - duet  (Trad American)
Coo Coo Bird  (Trad American)
Mary Hamilton  (Trad British)
Shenandoah - duet  (Trad American)
Fishin’ Blues - (Henry Thomas/Peidmont Blues duet with 2nd guitar)
The Ashgrove  (Trad British)
Not a Word Be Said  (Appalachian)
Henry Martyn  (Trad British)
Canadee-i-o  (Trad British) fingerstyle a la Nic Jones
Cannonball Blues  (Maybelle Carter fingerstyle)
Wild Bill Jones  (Trad/bluegrass/old-time)
Off to Sea Once More  (Trad British)
South Wind (Irish) Donal O’Sullivan

Celtic and American Roots #2  (level 3+ to 4+) Note higher level
Ireland’s Green Shore  (Trad Irish)
Bogie’s Bonnie Belle (Trad Scottish)
Short Life of Trouble  (Trad American)
Sail Away Ladies  (Trad American)
Memories of You Sweetheart (Bill Monroe)
Jackaroe (Trad British)
Gypsy Davey (found in both Britain and America)
Plains of Waterloo (British) version on Sylvia Herold’s album
House of the Rising Sun (Trad American) Clarence Ashley version
Lord Gregory (Trad British)
Oh the Wind and Rain (found in both Britain and America)
Claude Allen (American)
The Grey Funnel Line (in DADF#AD tuning) new, but sounds old

Beginning Swing  (level 3+ to 4) Note higher level
Mind Your Own Business - Hank Williams
Take Me Back to Tulsa - Bob Wills
I’m Satisfied with You - Fred Rose
San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills
Singing the Blues - Guy Mitchell, etc
Cold, Cold Heart - Hank Williams
Hey, Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams
Swinging on a Star - many artists
I’m an Old Cowhand - many artists
Weary Blues from Waitin - Hank Williams
Honeysuckle Rose - Fats Waller, etc
Honeysuckle Rose - harder version
When I’m sixty Four - Beatles swing
​Jingle Bell Rock - many artists

MULTI - LEVEL CLASSES and ARTIST FOCUS CLASSES 
All Bob Dylan #1 (easier version level 2-3; harder version level 4)
Girl From the North Country
Desolation Row
If Not For You
Make You Feel My Love
Jokerman
Delia
Just Like a Woman
Corrina, Corrina
Lay Down Your Weary Tune

All Bob Dylan #2  (easier version level 2-3; harder version level 3-4
Boots of Spanish Leather
Tangled Up In Blue
I Want You
Step It Up and Go
Blind Willie McTell
Red River Shore
As I Went Out Walking
She Belongs to Me
Like a Rolling Stone

All Paul Simon #1 (level 2-3 and up) 
The Sound of Silence
59th Street Song (Feelin' Groovy)
America
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Under African Skies
Loves Me Like a Rock
Homeward Bound
Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard

All Bob Dylan (level 2-3 and Up)
If Not For You
A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
Corrina, Corrina
Every Grain of Sand
Jokerman
Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Just Like a Woman
Boots of Spanish Leather
As I Went Out One Morning
Red River Shore
Desolation Row
​Like a Rolling Stone

All Elton John #1 (level 2-3 and Up)
All Elton John #2 (level 2-3 and Up)

Americana and Its Roots #32! 
(multi-level class. Easy versions level 2-3; harder versions level 3-4) 
Always new songs! Material will be developed throughout the class.

All James Taylor #1 (Easy version level 3, harder version 4 to 4+)
You Can Close Your Eyes
Something in the Way She Moves
Copperline
Mexico
Shower the People
Country Road
The Frozen Man
Every Day

LEVEL 4 CLASSES - To be added at a later date!
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