Poor Boy Long Ways From Home - John Fahey - With Free Tab
n this video I want to share with you my version of John Fahey's of 'Poor Boy Long Ways From Home'. This is a nice piece of folk blues music in the American Primitivism style which Fahey is famous for. The music is played on a guitar in Open D Tuning and is in the Key of D. It is in 4/4 time and it is a fingerstyle piece incorporating a standard Travis Picking pattern throughout. In this video, I will play through the music at normal tempo first, and then I will play through it again more slowly and put the tab onscreen. Below are some tips to help you play this piece, and links to download the tab. Poor Boy Long Ways from Home Downloadable Tab - Power Tab - PDF - TXT Bends - There are a number of bends throughout the music and these take place on the 8th fret of the second string. Throughout the music I have written these as half note bends just for ease, but they don't all have to be played as half note bends. You will notice that I play these bends dif...