Fingerpicking Courses

Go from complete beginner to guitar fingerpicker in 30 days. Ideal if you are new to fingerpicking or guitar. Join the 29k students who have learned guitar through fingerpicking and learn patterns and travis picking in 30 days.

Learn how to play melodies at the same time as playing bass lines. We learn how to play any melody on guitar while picking. You will learn scales, melodies, bass lines, articulation, hammer-ons, pull-offs, muting, chord flicks and more.

Take your fingerpicking to the next level. We explore polyrhythms and alternate tuning and use songs like Windy & Warm and Deep River Blues to truly dive into advanced fingerpicking. Learn the classic Lean On Me played in finger style in alternate tunings.

One of the quickest ways to make your guitar playing sound good is to learn the blues. This course is designed for guitarists who want to bring blues riffs, simple lead ideas and classic blues patterns into their fingerpicking.

Lead Fingerpicking is the technique of playing lead guitar ideas, such as blues riffs and melodies, while also keeping a steady bass line going underneath. You will learn how to combine melody, bass and chord movement into what I call the "3 guitars" effect — a fuller, more exciting way to see and play and improvise on the guitar.

Learn fingerpicking blues through alternate-bass, Travis-picking and Piedmont-style approaches. You will work on playing blues with a steady bass, adding lead ideas over the top, and bringing major-pentatonic country blues sounds into your fingerstyle playing.

Piedmont Blues is a beautiful fingerstyle approach where the thumb keeps a steady, rolling bass while the fingers add syncopated melody and blues ideas on top. In this course, you'll learn classic Piedmont and ragtime-style blues techniques, build confidence with Travis picking, and work towards playing full, musical pieces like "Nobody Knows You" and "Summit Blues."