Fingerstyle for the Curious Guitarist

About this course

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.

Course objectives

• to teach the fundamentals of fingerstyle guitar
• to develop improvisational skills using fingerstyle techniques
• to explore different fingerstyle approaches
• to provide resources for ongoing practice