This course is ideal if you are a complete beginner to guitar – or a beginner to fingerpicking guitar.  It is also perfect if you are a failed beginner (someone who tried to learn guitar before but didn’t succeed or no longer plays regularly)

Having taught thousands of students, I learned that the key to learning guitar is for the student to sound musical within minutes of starting to learn! I promise that if you adopt the traditional method of strumming chords and trying to change them quickly – it is hard to sound musical after a few days.

We start with just one chord and learning patterns of how to pluck the individual strings of that chord, then it is magic. Life is interesting from day one! By the time we introduce the second chord, you are already a bit of a guitar player!

The course has five sections

1. Getting Started  (identifying string names, a few chords, reading tablature, using a metronome)
2. Fingerpicking Basics (how fingerpicking works, several fingerpicking patterns)
3. The Thumb (does the work of the bass player; alternating bass, walking bass, more fingerpicking patterns)
4. The Fingers (advanced patterns, pinching, sequence length and writing your own fingerpicking patterns)
5. Advanced (clear breakdowns of advanced techniques like Travis Picking and Clawhammer)

Each section has 5-7 individual lessons with a homework exercise after each lesson. At the beginning of the following lesson, I will give tips for anyone stuck with practical ways to get it mastered if you’re finding it difficult.