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.
What you'll learn
understand basic guitar terminology
read guitar TAB
perform fingerpicking techniques
apply fingerstyle techniques to various music genres
play songs using fingerstyle methods
Course objectives
to teach the fundamentals of fingerstyle guitar
to develop improvisational skills using fingerstyle techniques