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Free Video Lessons

Below you'll find my free video guitar lessons. In most cases, each video guitar lesson also includes the associated guitar tab (pdf) and MP3 Backing Track. This supplemental content is exclusive to the Classic Folk Guitar Lessons website. You won't find these additional files on YouTube!
How to Tune Your Guitar

In this free beginning guitar lesson instructor Dennis Whitt explains how to tune the guitar using the “adjacent string method.


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How To Read Guitar Tab

In this free beginning guitar lesson instructor Dennis Whitt explains how to read guitar tab while demonstrating on the guitar. 


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How To Change Guitar Chords

In this free beginning guitar lesson, guitar instructor Dennis Whitt demonstrates how to change guitar chords read guitar chord charts. He also shares several useful tips on chord changing. 


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Beginning Fingerpicking

In this free beginning guitar lesson, guitar instructor Dennis Whitt demonstrates a common fingerpicking pattern. 


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Greensleeves Video Guitar Tab

In this video instructor Dennis Whitt explains the guitar tab for his own version of the old English folk song "Greensleeves". This video has been added to the Gallery, or you can Watch Now on YouTube

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Travis Picking in the Key of C

In this video Classic Folk Guitar Lessons instructor Dennis Whitt teaches the fingerstyle techniqe known as "Travis Picking" which is named after Merle Travis, the guitarist who developed the playing style. This Video has been added to the Gallery and may be wat…

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Amazing Grace Gospel Guitar Solo

In this gospel guitar lesson, guitar instructor Dennis Whitt demonstrates how to play a bluegrass guitar part for the song "Amazing Grace". This video has been added to the Gallery , or you can Watch Now on YouTube  

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This Land is Your Land Folk Guitar Lesson

In this video guitar lesson guitar instructor Dennis Whitt demonstrates how to play Woody Guthrie's iconic folk song “This Land is Your Land”. Video includes guitar tab and mp3 backing track. This video has been added to the Gallery , or you can Watch Now on YouTu…

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Kumbaya Folk Guitar Lesson

In this free video guitar lesson, instructor Dennis Whitt demonstrates how to play a classic folk song from the 1960s called "Kumbaya". This video has been added to the Gallery , or y ou can Watch Now on YouTube

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House of the Rising Sun Video Guitar Tab

In this video guitar lesson, guitar instructor Dennis Whitt explains how to read the guitar tab to "House of the Rising Sun". This video has been added to the Gallery , or y ou can Watch Now on YouTube

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Scarborough Fair Folk Guitar Lesson

In this free video guitar lesson, guitar instructor Dennis Whitt teaches how to play the popular folk song by Simon & Garfunkel-“Scarborough Fair”. This video has been added to the Gallery , or you can Watch Now on YouTube

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John Riley Folk Guitar Lesson

In this free video guitar lesson, instructor Dennis Whitt demonstrates how to play a classic folk song that was popular in the 1960s called "John Riley". This video has been added to the Gallery or you can Watch Now on YouTube 

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The Last Thing on my Mind Folk Guitar Lesson

In this video instructor Dennis Whitt teaches how to play a 1960s folk song written by Tom Paxton called The "Last Thing on my Mind". The lesson's focus is on the fingerstyle guitar part but also includes a vocal demonstration as well. This video has been added to…

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There but for Fortune Folk Guitar Lesson

In this video Classic Folk Guitar Lessons instructor Dennis Whitt teaches how to play an old folk song by Phil Ochs entitled "There but for Fortune". If you like 60s folk music and fingerstyle guitar playing you'll enjoy this lesson! This video has been added to t…

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