John’s notes; This ‘Folk’ ballad can be enjoyed by both beginners and experienced guitarists. This simple melody has stood the test of time and well worth adding to your ‘set list’. Many ‘one to one’ members will recognise the use of the ‘A’, ‘D’ and ‘E’ chord/scales ‘shapes’ throughout this arrangement. If you don’t know what that means be sure to ask when next attending your lesson. All the greats (past and present) use these techniques - so should you! The “Chord-melody” part can be played as a ‘stand alone’ version or using the Backing Track, and is suitable for Acoustic and Electric guitars. The ‘Lead Gtr’ I created this arrangement for the Electric guitar to practice bends, pull offs and high end fretboard fingering etc. Although highly ‘improvised’ I kept referring to the melody of the original tune. Also, due to the slow tempo I chose to target the chord tones. I could have just played notes from the G Major scale positions 1 to 5 and ignored the chords being played underneath, but targeting chord tones guarantees a melodic structure that better matches the background harmony. When you know the underlying chords & harmony of a tune, and the tempo is not too fast, picking out some chord tones always provides a better match when ‘improvising’. In reality a mixture of picking out selected chord tones AND playing notes from the Key of the tune is the norm.