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The Sound of Silence

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Star of the County Down

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Dan's Guitars

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Right Hand Technique Lesson

Two Octave Scales

Walk Downs

Beginner:

500 Miles - Hedy West

A Pirate Looks at Forty - Jimmy Buffett

A Time For Us - Larry Kusik, Eddie Snyder, Nino Rota

A'Soalin' - Peter, Paul & Mary

Across The Great Divide - Kate Wolf

Alberta - Lead Belly

Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie

All Apologies - Nirvana

All My Trials - Bahamian Lullaby

Amarillo By Morning - Terry Stafford and Paul Fraser

Amazing Grace - Traditional

Annie's Song - John Denver

April Come She Will - Simon and Garfunkel

Auld Lang Syne - Robert Burns

Autumn Leaves - Joseph Kosma

Barbara Allen - Traditional

Black Jack Davey - Traditional

Blackbird - Paul McCartney

Bleecker Street - Simon and Garfunkel

Blow the Candle Out - The Kingston Trio

Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan

Bonnie Laddie Hielan' Laddie - Scottish Traditional

Bury Me Beneath The Willow - Traditional

Catch Another Butterfly - John Denver

Christmas for Cowboys - John Denver

Cindy - American Folk Song

City Of New Orleans - Steve Goodman

Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett

Comes a Time - Neil Young

Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez

Don't Think Twice - Bob Dylan

Dust In The Wind - Kansas

Early Morning Rain - Gordon Lightfoot

Farther Along - Traditional Gospel

Foggy Foggy Dew - English Traditional

Follow Me - John Denver

Four and Twenty Years Ago - Stephen Stills

Four Strong Winds - Ian Tyson

Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten

Gentle On My Mind - John Hartford

Georgie - Traditional English Folk Ballad

Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan

Green Eyes - Kate Wolf

Greensleeves - Traditional

He Went to Paris - Jimmy Buffet

Helplessly Hoping - Crosby Stills and Nash

House Of The Rising Sun - Traditional

Hurt - Trent Reznor

If I Needed You - Townes Van Zandt

I'll Fly Away - Albert E. Brumley

Imagine - John Lennon

It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Traditional

Jingle Bells - Traditional

John Barleycorn - Traffic

Jolene - Dolly Parton

Julia - The Beatles

July You're a Woman -John Stewart

Kathy's Song - Simon & Garfunkel

Keep On The Sunny Side (F Major) - Ada Blenkhorn / The Carter Family / The Whites

Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning - Rev. Gary Davis

Key to the Highway - Eric Clapton

Killing Me Softly - Charles Fox/Norman Gimbrel

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - The Weavers

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

Last Thing On My Mind - Tom Paxton

Leather Wing Bat - Traditional (Tommy Makem Version)

Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver

Little Rosewood Casket - Traditional

Love at the Five and Dime - Nanci Griffith

Love Is Blue - Peirre Cour/Andre Popp

Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

Mexico (Easy Version) - James Taylor

Mr. Bojangles - Jerry Jeff Walker

Mystery Etude - Dan C. Holloway

O Holy Night - Adolphe Adam

Old Tennessee - Dan Fogelberg

Omie Wise - Doc Watson

One Of Us - Joan Osborne

One Toke Over the Line - Brewer and Shipley

Pack Up Your Sorrows - Richard Fariña and Pauline Marden

Paradise - John Prine

Peggy O - Traditional (Greatful Dead, Joan Baez)

Pencil Thin Mustache - Jimmy Buffett

Puff The Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul and Mary

Railroad Bill - Traditional

Reason To Believe - Tim Hardin

Red River Valley - Traditional

Ripple - The Greatful Dead

Salty Dog Blues - Traditional

Silent Night

Six White Horses - Larry Murray (Tommy Cash)

Sloop John B - Traditional Bahamian Song

Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel

Stewball - Peter, Paul and Mary

Streets of London - Ralph McTell

Strong Enough - Cheryl Crow

Summer Wages - Ian Tyson

Sunshine On My Shoulders - John Denver

Take Me Out to the Ball Game - Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer

Tennessee Waltz - Traditional

That Lonesome Valley - Traditional American Gospel Song (Mississippi John Hurt version)

The Ash Grove - Traditional

The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel

The Cape - Guy Clark

The Feather - Alan Silvestri

The Leaving of Liverpool - Traditional

The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane - Will S. Hays

The Little Drummer Boy (Carol of the Drum) - Katherine Kennicott Davis

The Riddle Song - Doc Watson

The Swan - Camille Saint-Saens

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

These Days - Jackson Browne

This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie

Today - John Denver

Tom Dooley - The Kingston Trio / Doc Watson

Wayfaring Stranger - Traditional

Wayside Tavern - Jerry Douglas and Peter Rowan

Wedding Song (There is Love) - Paul Stookey

When the Levee Breaks - Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy

When The Saints Go Marching In - Traditional American Gospel Song

Where Have All The Flowers Gone - The Kingston Trio

Where I'm Bound - Tom Paxton

Whiskey in the Jar - Irish Traditional

Wildwood Flower - Carter Family

Will The Circle Be Unbroken - Traditional (Ada R. Habershon/Charles H. Gabriel)

You Ain't Going Nowhere - Bob Dylan

You Are My Sunshine - Traditional

Intermediate to Advanced:

2:10 Train - The Stone Poneys/Linda Ronstadt

A Taste of Honey - Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow

A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum

Abilene - Bob Gibson and John D. Loudermilk (recorded and popularized by George Hamilton IV)

Africa - Toto

Afro Cuban Lullaby (Drume Negrita) - Eliseo Grenet (Arr. Christopher Parkening)

Ain't No Sunshine When SHe's Gone - Bill Withers

"Air" from Celtic Suite for Guitar - Dan C. Holloway

America - Simon & Garfunkel

American Tune - Paul Simon

Amie - Pure Prairie League

And I Love Her - The Beatles

Angie - The Rolling Stones

A Rovin' on a Winter's Night - Doc Watson

Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar

As Time Goes By - Herman Hupfeld

Autumn Leaves - Joseph Kosma

Autumn to May - Peter, Paul, and Mary

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Anne Bredon (Led Zeppelin)

Baby I Love Your Way - Peter Frampton

Back Home Again - John Denver

Bad Company - Bad Company

Banks of the Ohio - Traditional

Behind Blue Eyes - The Who

Bell Bottom Blues - Eric Clapton

Bella's Lullaby - Carter Burwell

Beyond the Blue Horizon - Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting, and W. Franke Harling

Big Bill - Dan C. Holloway

Black Mountain Rag - Traditional

Black Water - The Doobie Brothers

Blossom - James Taylor

Blue Bayou - Roy Orbison and Joe Melson

Blue Moon - Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

Blue Railroad Train - The Delmore Brothers

Blue Skies - Irving Berlin

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day

Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison

Buckdancer's Choice - Traditional

Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles

Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith (Steve Winwood)

Can't Help Falling In Love - Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss (Recorded by Elvis Presley)

Cannon Ball Rag - Merle Travis

California Dreaming - The Mamas and the Papas

Carolina in My Mind - James Taylor

Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

Christmas Creek - Dan C Holloway

Church Street Blues - Norman Blake

Classical Gas - Mason Williams

Clocks - Coldplay

Coast of Marseilles - Keith Sykes (Jimmy Buffet)

Colored Aristocracy - Traditional

Cotton Fields - Huddie Ledbetter

Cowgirl in the Sand - Neil Young

Crazy - Willie Nelson

Dan's Blues - Dan C. Holloway

Dan's Celtic Tune - Dan C. Holloway

Dan's Happy Tune - Dan C. Holloway

Dan's Jig and Reel - Dan C. Holloway

Dan's Tune - Dan C. Holloway

Daniel - Elton John

Danny Boy - Frederic Weatherly (Londonderry Air -Irish Traditional)

Danny's Song - Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina

Darcey Farrow- Steve Gillette and Tom Campbell

Dawg After Dark - David Grisman

Daydream - John Sebastian

Daydream Believer - The Monkees (Composed by John Stewart)

Death Don't Have No Mercy - Reverend Gary Davis

Deck The Halls - Traditional

Deep River Blues - Doc Watson

Desperado - The Eagles

Dimming of the Day - Richard Thompson

Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans - Eddie De Lange/Loius Alter

Doc's Guitar - Doc Watson

Don Quixote - Gordon Lightfoot

Don't Fence Me In - Robert Fletcher and Cole Porter

Dream - Everly Brothers

Dream a Little Dream of Me - Kahn/Andree/Schwandt

Edlesweiss - Richard Rodgers (from "The Sound of Music")

Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

Every Breath You Take - The Police

Everybody's Talkin' - Fred Neil (Recorded by Harry Nilsson and featured in the film 'Midnight Cowboy')

Everyday - Buddy Holly

Evil Ways - Santana

Faithless Love - J.D. Souther (Linda Ronstadt)

Father and Son - Cat Stevens

Feeling Groovy - Simon & Garfunkel

Fields Of Gold - Sting

Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover - Paul Simon

Find the Cost of Freedom / Daylight Again - Crosby, Stills, and Nash

Fire And Rain - James Taylor

Fire On The Mountain - The Marshall Tucker Band

Fisher's Hornpipe - Traditional

Fishin' Blues - Taj Mahal

Fly Me to the Moon - Bart Howard

Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash

For Loving Me - Gordon Lightfoot

Forever - Stratovarius

Frosty the Snowman - Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson

Galway Girl - Steve Earle

Georgia On My Mind - Hoagy Carmichael/Stuart Gorrell

Ghost Riders In The Sky - Stan Jones

Ginseng Sullivan - Norman Blake

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Do You Hear What I Hear (Christmas Medley)

Going Down This Road Feelin' Bad (Lonesome Road Blues) - Traditional

Going to California - Led Zeppelin

Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

Goodnight Irene - Lead Belly

Green River - Credence Clearwater Revival

Gypsies in the Harbor - Dan C. Holloway

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

Happy Together - The Turtles

Hard Times Come Again No More - Stephen Collins Foster

Hark the Herald Angels Sing - Christmas Carol

Has Anybody Seen My Gal - Ray Henderson

Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley

Here Comes The Sun - George Harrison

Here, There and Everywhere - The Beatles (Paul McCartney)

He's A Pirate - Pirates Of The Caribbean

Hey Hey - Big Bill Broonzy

Hit the Road Jack - Percy Mayfield / Ray Charles

Home And The Heartland - Bill Whelan

Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel

Hotel California - The Eagles

House At Pooh Corner - Kenny Loggins

How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live - Blind Alfred Reed

I Feel Fine - The Beatles

I Saw the Light - Hank Williams

I Saw Three Ships - English Christmas Carol

If - Bread

If I Fell - The Beatles

If I Only Had A Brain - Harold Arlen / E.Y. Harburg

If I Were A Carpenter - Tim Hardin

If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot

I'll Be Home for Christmas - Kim Gannon / Walter Kent

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams

In My Life - The Beatles

In the Bleak Midwinter - Christina Rossetti / Gustav Holst

It Was A Very Good Year - Ervin Drake

Jerusalem Ridge - Bill Monroe

Jesse James - Traditional

Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms

Joy to the World - Traditional

Just Like A Woman - Bob Dylan

Keep On The Sunny Side - Ada Blenkhorn

Lady Madonna - The Beatles

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

Last of the Mohicans - Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman

Lay Down Your Weary Tune / Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan

Layla - Eric Clapton

Leader of the Band - Dan Fogelberg

Let It Be - The Beatles

Let It Be Me - The Everly Brothers

Let It Snow - Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne (Dean Martin)

Light My Fire - The Doors

Lily Of The West - Traditional

Little Martha - The Allman Brothers Band

Little Sadie - Doc Watson

Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix

Lonely People - America

Long Journey - Sam Worley

Longer - Dan Fogelberg

Loving Arms - Tom Jans (Dobie Gray)

Mad World - Tears For Fears

Mainstreet - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

Make Me A Pallet On The Floor - Mississippi John Hurt

Malted Milk - Robert Johnson

Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet

Memphis Blues - W.C. Handy

Mexico - James Taylor

Michelle - The Beatles

Miss the Mississippi and You - Jimmie Rodgers

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits

Moon River - Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer

Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens

Mother Nature's Son - The Beatles

My Favorite Things - Rodgers and Hammerstein

My Old Kentucky Home - Stephen Foster

Naked As We Came - Iron and Wine

Never Going Back Again - Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac)

Nine Pound Hammer - Merle Travis

Nights in White Satin - The Moody Blues

No Time Left for You - The Guess Who

Nobody Does It Better - Marvin Hamlisch/Carole Bayer Sager

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out - Jimmy Cox / Bessie Smith / Eric Clapton

Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

Nothing To It - Doc Watson

O Come All Ye Faithful / We Three Kings - Traditional

O Little Town of Bethlehem - Traditional

On Top of the World - The Carpenters

One Tin Soldier - Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter

Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

Old Man - Neil Young

People Are Strange - The Doors

Piano Man - Billy Joel

Poncho And Lefty - Townes Van Zandt

Raglan Road - Traditional Irish Tune

Rainy Day People - Gordon Lightfoot

Rainy Night in Georgia - Tony Joe White

Ready for the Times to Get Better - Allen Reynolds

Reuben's Train / 900 Miles - Traditional / Old-Time

Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

Rikki Don't Lose That Number - Steely Dan

Road To Lisdoonvarna - Irish Traditional

Romeo and Juliet - Mark Knopfler

Runaway - Del Shannon

Safe And Sound - Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars

Sally Gardens - Traditional

Salt Creek - Traditional Fiddle Tune

Sandy River Belle / Drowsy Maggie Medley - Traditional Fiddle Tunes

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie

Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel

Scotch and Soda - The Kingston Trio

Secret Agent Man - P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri (Johnny Rivers)

Seminole Wind - John Anderson

Shadows - Gordon Lightfoot

Shady Grove - Traditional Folk/Celtic/Bluegrass

She's a Woman - The Beatles>

She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel

Sheebeg and Sheemore - Turlough O'Carolan

Shenandoah - Traditional

Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Sitting on Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks

Solitary Man - Neil Diamond

Someday Soon - Ian Tyson

Something In The Way She Moves - James Taylor

Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Harold Arlen/E.Y. Harburg

Song For A Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot

Southbound - Doc Watson and Merle Watson

South City Midnight Lady - The Doobie Brothers

South Coast - Traditional Folk Ballad

St. James Infirmary - American Folk Song (Blues)

Star of the County Down - Traditional

Stoney Creek - Jim and Jesse McReynolds

Summertime - George Gershwin

Susie Q - Dale Hawkins

Swallow Tail Jig and Morrison's Jig - Traditional Irish Jigs

Swamp Music - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver

Tammy - Jay Livingston

Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton

Tell Me Why - Neil Young

Thank You - Led Zeppelin

That's All - Genesis (Phil Collins)

That's All Right, Mama - (Arthur Crudup) Elvis Presley

The Ballad of Thunder Road - Robert Mitchum and Jack Marshall.

The Christmas Song - Bob Wells and Mel Tormé

The Circle Game - Joni Mitchell

The Coo Coo Bird - Traditional

The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

The End Of Innocence - Bruce Hornsby

The Entertainer - Scott Joplin

The First Noel - Traditional

The Highwayman - Jimmy Webb

The Idiot - Stan Rogers

The Irish Washerwoman - Traditional

The Little Beggarman (Red Haired Boy) - Traditional

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band

The Scientist - Coldplay

The South Wind - Traditional

The Thrill is Gone - B.B. King

The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks

The Water Is Wide - Traditional

The Way - Fastball

The Weight - The Band

The Wellerman - Traditional Sea Shanty

The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix

They Call Me The Breeze - J.J. Cole/Lynyrd Skynyrd

This is My Father's World - Christian Hymn

Those Were the Days - Gene Raskin (Mary Hopkin)

Till There Was You - Meredith Willson (From "The Music Man")

Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce

Time of Your Life - Green Day

Trouble In Mind Blues - Richard M Jones

Try to Remember - Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

Two Step - Dave Matthews

Vincent - Don McLean

Walk Don't Run - The Ventures

Walk On Boy - Mel Tillis, Wayne Walker (Doc Watson)

Waltzing Matilda - Australian Traditional

Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi

Watson's Blues - Bill Monroe

Way Down Yonder In New Orleans - Turner Layton

What A Wonderful World - Bob Thiele/George David Weiss (Louis Armstrong)

What'd I Say - Ray Charles

Wheel in the Sky - Journey

When Johnny Comes Marching Home - Traditional

When You Say Nothing At All - Keith Whitley

Where Did You Sleep Last Night (In the Pines) - Traditional American Folk Song

While My Guitar Gently Weeps - George Harrison

White Room - Cream

Wichita Lineman - Jimmy Webb (Glen Campbell)

Wildflowers - Tom Petty

Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones

Will Ye Go Lassie Go - Traditional

Windy And Warm - John D. Loudermilk

Winter Wonderland - Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith

With a Little Help from My Friends - The Beatles

Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

Worried Man Blues - Traditional Folk/Blues

Yesterday - The Beatles

You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor

You Only Live Twice - John Barry, Leslie Bricusse, Nancy Sinatra

You've Got A Friend - James Taylor

You've Got a Friend in Me - Randy Newman

Your Love's Return - Gordon Lightfoot