Tab Key Introduction and Explanation of Melodic and Alternate Picking Styles Technical Studies Warm-ups Melodic Exercises – G Major, Mixolydian, Dorian, Aeolian, Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic Additional Scales – D and A Major, Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic Melodic Style in Context – Wild Mountain Thyme, Amazing Grace Alternate Picking Exercises – G Major, Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic Alternate Picking in Context – Arkansas Traveller, Flight of the Bumblebee Ornamentation – Triplets, Grace Notes, Slides Old-Time Tunes Betty Likens Shove the Pig’s Foot Coal Harbour Bend Kitchen Girl Yellin’ in the Shoats Over the Waterfall Forked Deer The Boatman June Apple Cherokee Shuffle Red Haired Boy Squirrel Hunters Folk Tunes Reels The Milkmaid Anne Lacey’s The Hut in the Bog Cooley’s Gravel Walks Glenlivet Virginia Reel Sweeney’s Buttermilk Pigeon on the Gate Jigs Willie Coleman’s Morrison’s McIntyre’s Fancy The Black Rogue The Rolling Waves Dinny Delaney’s Mac’s Fancy Pull the Knife and Stick It Again Paddy Fahy’s Other Tunes Off to California (Hornpipe) Boys of Bluehill (Hornpipe) Sonny Riordan’s (Polka) The Peeler’s Polka (Polka) Humours of Whiskey (Slip jig) Na Ceannabháin Bhána (Slip jig) Island of Woods (Air) Summary