The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel
Soul Music
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Gary's Happy Boy
Travis picking is the pattern of me doing. That's Travis picking, but with an alternated bass note. So if you were just playing a standard C chord in the box that you'd just be. So your bass notes is on a C. If you move that bass note from C to G backwards and forwards, that's pretty much Travis picking. Once you introduce the Travis picking to that, with the alternated bass pattern, it becomes call Simon. We're flying out to New York at the beginning of December and we're obviously playing Paul Simon's backyard. Be even better if he shows up though. Gary's a happy boy.
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