On the Sunny Side of the Ocean by John Fahey (Patreon)

Hello! Hope everyone's doing well. Thanks once again for the all the great questions submitted for last week's Q&A video. Plenty of you seem to enjoy it - and I did as well - so I'll try and do another later in the year on a different theme. I'm also planning on making some full length videos inspired by some of the questions asked. 

This week, for my annual Summer Special, I've chosen to look at a fingerstyle classic from one of my favourite acoustic players, John Fahey. It's a beautiful, complex track, but not actually that hard to play if you know a few fingerpicking basics, and are prepared to put a bit of time into learning it.

It's all tabbed out below. I've tried to do a reasonably faithful transcription of the 1965 recording. I've included a few nuances I didn't have a chance to mention in the video, but overall I've tried to keep it clear and readable. Hope you enjoy learning it.

As I mentioned at the end of the Q&A I'm now going to be away on my summer hols for a couple of weeks, and want to take a bit of a break from YouTube to recharge my batteries. (I will be taking a guitar with me though, and hope to do a bit of gentle practice and writing!)

Thanks as always to everyone on here for the amazing support. Speak soon!

Adrian