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First guitar lesson on Treetop Flyer by Stephen Stills. We'll learn the chords and finger picking patterns used in the verses of the song.

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0:10 What's in this lesson?
0:27 Tuning to drop D
0:38 Basic Travis pattern
0:58 Chords in the song
2:42 Using the Dust in the Wind pattern
3:20 The desert pattern
5:02 The offbeat variation
7:10 The parallel 3rds pattern
8:51 The big pluck variation
9:50 The open ending pattern
10:27 Playthrough of all the patterns
11:59 What's in the next lesson?

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