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"Study in Standard C"
by Mickey Cochran

This is an original improvisational chordal study. Utilizing the alternating bass with simple first-position chords in the key of C. Yes, there is a melody however, it's a wandering melody. This improvisation demonstrates how easily melodies can be discovered utilizing even the simplest of chords.



This tune will be tabbed out and placed in our online lessons section.

This is classic ragtime blues guitar. If you listen to Mississippi John Hurt, or Rev. Gary Davis, you can quickly see how this can be used as a formula for building tunes with Ragtime Blues Guitar alternating bass techniques. It's fun to experiment with this in the 5 major keys commonly played on guitar in open position: C, G, D, A and E. In our online lessons section we hope to tab out all of these keys with this very same exercise. This is also a great right-hand building technique for becoming comfortable with the alternating bass technique.

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