
This course guides you from quick tab and chord refreshers to building fingerstyle techniques. It enables you to play any song without a pick with rhythm and comfort.
We'll quickly review the string names names and how to read TAB.
This is the terminology that fingerstyle guitarists use. We'll learn it and use it in all our lessons.
These are the most fundamental fingerstyle movements that stem from classical technique.
Here, we'll begin our practice of modern fingerstyle guitar with two strings.
We continue on to use three strings for a modern fingerstyle sound.
In this lesson, we'll learn how to use all of PIMA at the same time, as well as some new techniques to enhance our rhythms.
This seemingly basic lesson shines light on the most effective use of your thumb for strumming.
You'll never have to go looking for your pick ever again! The invisible pick is always in your grasp.
This is a powerful flamenco technique that many modern players have adopted.
This is a technique for the fingerstyle player to use to match speed with their flatpicking counterparts.
This is a common & useful roll.
This is a common & useful roll.
This is a common & useful roll which incorporates dyad harmonies.
This is a common & useful roll in a 'three' feel.
This is a common & useful roll in a 'three' feel.
This is a common & useful roll in a 'three' feel which incorporates dyad harmonies.
Our course has come to its conclusion. We'll discuss ways for you to continue to practice and evolve as a fingerstyle guitarist. Thank you for going through this course with me!
Welcome to Fingerstyle for the Curious Guitarist! This is a complete fingerstyle guitar course for all levels of playing & improvising using fingerstyle & fingerpicking technique. Fingerstyle is a widely popular technique for playing guitar and can be used in many styles of music. Guitarists will often study this style alongside regular flatpicking playing.
Any kind of six-string guitar will work well for this course - electric, acoustic, or classical guitar.
The first few lessons will quickly get you up-to-speed with the terminology, such as our string names, reading TAB, and naming our picking fingers. Next, we'll use finger rolls, dyads, & triads (plus combinations of these) to play through chord progressions using only fingerpicking. We'll explore technique after technique of fingerstyle approaches to playing anything & everything without the use of a pick. We'll also work on traditional classical & Spanish techniques using open-handed strumming.
Everything in this course is in TAB form - no music reading required.
Many of these lesson videos have PDF attachments which are the tabs & text lessons. You can download, save, & print these. Be sure to get all the PDFs.
By the end of this course, you'll have all the tools you need to play anything on the guitar using a fingerstyle approach.
I'm glad you're here - let's begin.