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Tyranny of four' 46 , 67 , 75

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Verses
8 bar 42 , 47 , 56 , 67 , 68 , 166
12 bar 42 , 48 , 68
16 bar 42 , 47 , 56 , 60 , 67
32 bar 73
through-composed 68
Voicings (chord) 15 , 107 –08

Acknowledgements

Thanks go to Tony, Nigel, Phil and Pen at Balafon Press for their work in the complicated task of bringing this book
to fruition. I would also like to thank my guitar students over the past twenty years, who have brought new songs to
my attention and sharpened my awareness of some of the points of songwriting craft discussed herein; in particular
Paul Bridges, Ella Maitland, Hilmi Kocak, Martin Willbery, Roger Dalrymple, and Pardis Sabeti. For personal
inspiration on the guitar I am indebted to Denys Stephens and Ian Jackson, and for musical instruction my music
teachers at Humphry Davy Grammar, Penzance, Russell Jory and Elizabeth Duncan. Remembering further back, I
thank my parents Dallas and Bryan for a childhood home that was full of music, popular and classical.