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Learn Fingerpicking Guitar

Beginner: From Zero to Fingerpicking Guitar in 30 Days

  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)

What you will learn

  • Play the most common guitar chords
  • Play these chords in a fingerpicking style
  • Learn new fingerpicking patterns
  • Decompose fingerpicking patterns into the bass/thumb and the melody/fingers
  • Read guitar tablature and play along to a metronome
  • Compose your own fingerpicking patterns using a method that works!
  • Apply Travis Picking and Clawhammer styles

Intermediate Fingerpicker Course

What you will learn

  • Play bass patterns over common chords
  • Play scales
  • Construct your own melodies
  • Learn the fundamentals of reading rhythm
  • Weave hammer-ons and pull-offs into your fingerpicking
  • Play several advanced fingerpicking pieces
  • Fingerpick a 12-bar blues in E

Advanced Guitar Fingerpicking

  1. Advanced Rhythm and Polyrhythms
  2. A look at Chet Atkins technique and study of the song Windy & Warm
  3. A look at Doc Watson's technique and the song Deep River Blues
  4. Advanced Techniques (harmonizing scales, adding percussive elements, alternate tunings)

What you will learn

  • Play in a fingerpicking style using 3/2 polyrhythms
  • Harrmonize scales and incorporate wide interval playing into your fingerstyle playing
  • Use a variety of bass patterns within a single song
  • Add percussive elements to your repertoire
  • Learn awesome sounding version of classics like Deep River Blues, Windy & Warm and Lean On Me
  • Understand the thought process to make your acoustic sound like the orchestra it is
Amazing lessons. And it got better right until the end. Thanks, Patrick! Jon Ivarsson

BEGINNER

Beginner

INTERMEDIATE

Intermediate

ADVANCED

Advanced