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Beginning Fingerstyle Guitar
An ideal introduction for the novice guitarist to the Art of Fingerstyle Guitar. Learn the tricks and techniques that professionals use. You'll learn to play a number of acoustic fingerstyles including: Rock Ballad; Bluegrass, Classical, C&W, Folk, Ragtime and English Fingerstyle and even better at the end of the course you'll be able to play a great accompaniment to virtually any song you know the chords of.
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LESSON
1: PLAYING ARPEGGIOS
Getting to grips with right hand thumb and finger independence by practising
arpeggio exercises and drills. Plus a fingerstyle arrangement of "House
of the rising sun". This lesson is FREE. Try
it now?
LESSON
2: CLASSICAL STYLE
More important arpeggio exercises and drills, and a taste of playing in
a classical guitar style with a very famous tune: "Romance" by Tarrega.
LESSON
3: BLUEGRASS STRUMS
Learn how to play those classic Country and Western type strums. Master
the basic bluegrass strum presented here and you''ll be able to play countless
Country and Western songs. As an amusement we've done "Coming round the
mountain".
LESSON
4: THE PINCH
One of the most important techniques to master when learning the art of
fingerstyle guitar. Whatever style you end up playing, you'll need this
little trick for sure. Here presented with exercises and a simple arrangement
of a famous Christmas carol.
LESSON
5:"LEFT" HAND STRETCH
A killer technique for achieving those enormous five fret stretches. This
exercise will develop an extremely strong left hand, a vital ingredient
for playing fingerstyle well.
LESSON
6: ALTERNATING THE BASS
A crucial technique for playing in all kinds of styles, including Ragtime,
Blues, C&W and Folk. This lesson includes a number of exercises to help
you develop a bouncy thumb.
LESSON
7: HARMONICS & BOB DYLAN!
Learn how to play clean, convincing harmonics. Plus you'll develop your
alternating bass technique further with a haunting acoustic blues guitar
arrangement of a Bob Dylan song.
LESSON
8: IT'S RAGTIME!
An introduction to Ragtime guitar with a working of "Camptown Races".
In this lesson you'll get to grips with an indispensible technique - using
your thumb for bass notes.
LESSON
9: INSTANT ACCOMPANIMENT
A great alternating bass style that you can apply to playing any number
of songs in a professional way.
LESSON
10: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER
In this final lesson we put all the tricks and techniques we have learned
- arpeggiating, pinching, thumbing the bass and alternating bass - in
one specially written piece for this course. It's an English Fingerstyle
type of tune.
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