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Tutorial: You'll Not Feel the Drowning (The Island Part 3)
Nylon strings and drowning things
May 16
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Tutorial: The Landlord's Daughter (The Island Part 2)
triplet triplet triplet triplet
Apr 25
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Colin Meloy
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Tutorial: Come and See (The Island Part 1)
Get ready to ruin your fingers
Apr 4
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Song Tutorials: January Hymn
Just under the wire
Jan 31
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Colin Meloy
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Tutorial: Hazards of Love 1
The Prettiest Whistles Weather the Wind Storm
Dec 27, 2022
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6:16
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Tutorial: Won't Want For Love
Back into the taiga
Nov 15, 2022
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Colin Meloy
8:39
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Song Tutorial: California 1/Youth and Beauty Brigade
Another lesson from the world's worst guitar teacher
Sep 30, 2022
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Colin Meloy
24:31
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