In the Guitar class I'm taking in College the Instructor is not allowing us to play with picks. I'm looking forward to fingerpicking, I've never been good at it so this works out great.
Anyways, for our final we have to play a song for the class. During the semester he will give handouts with songs that we can choose from, OR we can submit one of our choice.

I'm drawing a blank on fingerpicking song names. I have a few, but I would like to check out more.

I'm pretty open as far as genre goes.

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Blackbird/ Beatles
Mood for a day/ Yes
Horizon/ Genesis

Do you have to sing also or is it an instrumental song?
Claude.

Dust In The Wind - Kansas
Clear As The Driven Snow - The Doobie Brothers
Angelina - Tommy Emmanuel

Anything by James Taylor:
Carolina in My Mind
Fire and Rain
Youve Got a Friend
Sweet Baby James
Shower The People

All great songs by the finger style master.

I am not a good finger picker by any stretch of the imagination. One great song I worked out years ago ,though I used a pick but I know it is really finger picked thats a killer is Babe In gonna leave You by Zep.

Bron-Yr-aur (Led Zeppelin)
Stairway To Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
Babe Im Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin)
Here Comes The Sun (The Beatles
Blackbird (The Beatles)
Tears In Heaven (Eric Clapton)

Maybe some of Jim Croce's and/or Gordon Lightfoot.

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Keep em coming. I'm getting some great songs here.

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Fire and Rain (James Taylor)
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)
Sounds Of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)
Dust In the wind (Kansas)

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Maybe some fingerpicked blues tunes?

This link looks interesting too, Chet.

http://www.acousticfingerstyle.com/

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The lead parts on most Dire Straits songs

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Just a amatuer looking for tips

Current Gear:
1968 Kay Strat
Kramer Focus 111S
Johnson 15w amp
Squier Black and Chrone Special Tele

I have been trying to get the technique and Dylan song ("Don't Think Twice, It's All Right") Justin demo's here, for months. It sounds excellent, but is really hard to do (well......for a hack like me anyway):

http://www.justinguitar.com/en/TE-021-F ... style1.php

"Big Love" by Fleetwood Mac. To be a little more obscure there's lots of Lindsey Buckinghams solo stuff that's fun. Check out "Trouble" on the "Live at Bass Performance Hall" CD. Also, early Paul Simon stuff would be good "live From New York -1967" has just Paul Simon on guitar for backup.

Chet when I was in school I learned Windy and Warm by Chet Atkins

It wasn't that hard. It sounds great.

The tune starts at around 1:10 on this video.

Or if you get real good real fast you could learn The last Steam Engine Train.

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If you want a little bit of classical (just a bit), I always love to play Dee by Mr. Randy Rhoads off the Blizzard of Ozz album. That was the first fingerpicking song I learned ^^ (It is only like 50 seconds long, not sure if there is a time limit)

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Perhaps something based on an acoustic version of Layla.

Doug -

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