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Fingerstyle and Fingerpicking Lessons for Acoustic Guitar
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Fingerstyle and Fingerpicking Lessons for Acoustic Guitar

Learn fingerstyle and fingerpicking techniques as played in the tradition of folk, blues and country guitar
Created byGuitar Jamz Guitar Lessons
Last updated 8/2017
English
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What you'll learn

  • Introduction to folk style techniques
  • How to hold the guitar when playing fingerstyle or fingerpicking
  • Beginning concepts of fingerpicking and fingerstyle guitar.
  • Basic chords in the fingerstyle or fingerpicking style
  • How to get optimal sound while playing this style
  • Learn to play folk style songs
  • Learn the Travis Picking technique pioneered by Merle Travis
  • Learn techniques inspired by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and other greats
  • How to play the beautiful orchestral sound popularized by James Taylor
  • More advanced techniques in the folk and classic rock styles

Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 2h 20m total length

  • Fingerpicking Techniques Course - Intro1:51

    Discover the fundamentals of fingerstyle guitar as the instructor shares his love for acoustic fingerstyle and guides you from basics toward advanced techniques through practice and repetition.

  • Fingerpicking Techniques Course - Chapter 118:48

    Drop the pick and master fingerstyle arpeggiation on an E chord by focusing on the right hand, guiding it over individual strings, hovering, practicing simple patterns, and slow chord progressions.

  • Fingerpicking Techniques Course - Chapter 216:07

    Explore a fingerpicked pattern with pinch notes across G, E minor, and C, adding ringing notes and a melody over accompaniment. Use polyrhythms and variations to change the feel.

  • Fingerpicking Techniques Course - Chapter 323:52

    Master alternating bass with the thumb and melody independence in fingerstyle guitar, channeling Travis picking, by building from a simple pattern and layering rhythms with a moving bass.

  • Fingerpicking Techniques Course - Chapter 429:15

    Master fingerstyle guitar with alternating bass patterns, hammer-ons, and rolling techniques, exploring chord shapes from g to c and d, plus embellishments and blues-inflected variations.

  • Fingerpicking Techniques Course - Chapter 534:04

    Learn to play country blues fingerstyle with alternating bass, octaves, and interwoven melodies, using hammer-ons and bass patterns to create a two-guitar sound.

  • Fingerpicking Techniques Course - Chapter 616:46

    Explore fingerstyle guitar techniques inspired by James Taylor to craft mini orchestras with rolls, hammer-ons, chord shapes, open-string voicings, and floating right-hand textures.

Requirements

  • You need an acoustic or electric guitar.

Description

Taught by Grammy Award winning guitarist John Konesky, these fingerpicking techniques will take you from basic to advanced.  They include folk style, basic chords, Travis picking, acoustic blues, and how to play in style of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and other greats.  

You'll learn every technique you'd ever need to master acoustic guitar, including: how to make chord changes effortlessly, adding rhythmic elements such as the chuck and rhythmic slap, a nifty little trick that lets you totally change the sound and tone of a chord with just one finger, learning hammer-on and pull-off chords, and a myriad of new chords, pseudo bar chords, strum patterns, and much more.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn what's known as "fingerstyle" or "fingerpicking" technique on guitar

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