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Fingerstyle Blues 1 - RICK PAYNE
Establish good monotonic bass and thumb and finger independence

Fingerstyle Blues 2 - RICK PAYNE
More Fingerstyle Blues techniques

Pentatonic to the Blues - RICK PAYNE
Get to grips with the Blues scale and how to use those fantastic Blue Notes

Dampened Bass - RICK PAYNE
Fat bass technique for Fingerstyle Blues. Features low resolution Flash video

Arpeggio Techniques - STEVE ELLIOTT
Develop your thumb and finger independence with the crucial technique of arpeggios

Acoustic Slide - RICK PAYNE
An introduction to Acoustic slide techniques

12 String Acoustic GERT DE MEIJER
Dutch master Gerd de Meijer introduces the delights of the 12 string acoustic

More arpeggios TOM YODER
Also a cool lesson in borrowing correctly by Tom Yoder

Altered Tunings JOE BENNET
Joe Bennet's quick overview on Open Tunings

A Nick Drake classic tabbed GILBERT ISBIN
Uses SIBELIUS SCORCH
Gilbert Isbin gives us a Free Ride! This Nick Drake classic tabbed out. You will need Sibelius Scorch to view and playback this tab.

Chord Harmony Mini Workshop - RICK PAYNE & STEVE ELLIOTT
Sorting out major and minor, chord and scale harmony and the Circle of 5ths

Alternating Bass STEVE ELLIOTT
Here's an introduction into a crucial fingerpicking technique. This technique requires your thumb to bounce and alternate between bass strings while your other picking fingers play a melody or pattern in syncopation.

Contemporary Arpeggios - GILBERT ISBIN
Uses SIBELIUS SCORCH
Check out this lesson by Gilbert Isbin on arpeggiation and rhythmic diversity. We've been experimenting with the Sibelius Scorch plug in for this and have been getting great feedback from users. If you haven't got it, it's easy to download and install. See lesson now.

Improvisation - GILBERT ISBIN
Uses SIBELIUS SCORCH
Check out this lesson on themes and how to embellish them effectively for fingerstyle guitar. This Isbin lesson will help you grasp some imrpovisational skills. See lesson now.

Single note and chord shape Improvisation -GILBERT ISBIN
Uses SIBELIUS SCORCH
Single note improvisation with bass and how to improvise around chord shapes. See lesson now.

A guide to DADGAD - NIGEL JONES
A very useful introduction to a classic tuning. Primarily known as a Celctic tuning, that is by no means the be-all and end-all of DADGAD. See lesson now.

Gilbert Isbin's arrangement of Nick Drake's classic Riverman
Uses SIBELIUS SCORCH
Single note improvisation with bass and how to improvise around chord shapes. See lesson now.

Guitar harmony - NIGEL JONES
If you're interested in playing harmonies with other guitarists you should check this out. See lesson now.

NEW Moving Bass - NIGEL JONES
You can can add lots of great movement to your picking with this lesson. See lesson now.