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welcome back to Swiftlessons for another by request song tutorial. In today's lesson I'll be breaking down an old spiritual from the 1860's entitled "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." This piece of American music history has been performed in countless ways, but today I'll be breaking down my own arrangement featuring some percussive fingerstyle techniques. Let's get started!

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"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Guitar Lesson - Fingerstyle Percussive Rhythm

Gain access to TABS, exclusive tutorials and other awesome supporter perks at http://www.patreon.com/swiftlessons Hello friends, welcome back to Swiftlessons for another by request song tutorial. In today's lesson I'll be breaking down an old spiritual from the 1860's entitled "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot." This piece of American music history has been performed in countless ways, but today I'll be breaking down my own arrangement featuring some percussive fingerstyle techniques. Let's get started! Tabs for this lesson at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28425228 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Links: Request a song at: http://swiftguitar.com/request Facebook: http://facebook.com/swiftguitarlessons Instagram: https://instagram.com/swiftguitarlessons Twitter: https://twitter.com/swiftlessons

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Anonymous

Love the percussive fingerstyle technique on this one. Now, singing while playing is another story. 😉

swiftlessons

Thanks Luisa, my favorite versions of this tune are those that really groove, so this is my best imitation of that. In regards to playing while singing, it's the same old story, a few hundred repetitions over the course of several practice sessions, then you can start peppering in the vocal part. One trick that I have found success with is singing the first part of each phrase just to get started, or singing the words that fall on the numbered beats. Of course, once you start adding in the singing, you need to drop the tempo to about half speed and work your way back up to tempo.

Anonymous

What an awesome tutorial! fun song. You are such a great teacher! Thank you for all you do!

Anonymous

Very nice arrangement of the classic spiritual, thank you Rob !!!