Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

from: Beginning Guitar with Adrianne Serna

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Learn to play guitar from scratch and sing some of your favorite songs with simple but powerful chords and strum patterns. Includes 24 great songs to play, with chord and lyric sheets.

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Orphan Girl

Gillian Welch’s song “Orphan Girl” was first recorded by Emmylou Harris on her classic Wrecking Ball album, and Welch recorded the song, which has become a bluegrass jam session favorite, on her debut recording, Revival. You can play “Orphan Girl” with just three chords—G, C, and D—and the bass down-up strum, with or without an alternating bass, whichever you choose. Adrianne shows you which bass strings to alternate for each chord and how to accent the second and fourth beats of each measure.

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Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

The folk song “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize” has been recorded by Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Mavis Staples, and many others. It’s in the key of A minor, with Am, Dm, E7, and C chords. You can play it with the bass down-up, bass down, or down down-up patterns, and Adrianne shows you the alternating-bass pattern for the Am, Dm, E7, and C chords. She also shows you a simple bass run you can play between Am chords or from Am to Dm.

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