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Merle travis had such a unique approach at the time he had a whole technique named after him travis picking which separates out the melody, harmony and bass lines. Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Heres a cool funkypop bass line played using fingerstyle technique. There is a pdf download of all the chord shapes used see below.
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