Acoustic Guitar Lessons for Fingerstyle and Flatpicking Guitar
With these free acoustic guitar lessons, you can choose whether you need to just brush-up a bit on your proficiency, or go all in and learn a few advanced methods that we will offer.
I have been playing guitar for over 40 years and was a guitar teacher for 15 of those years.
We will have a loads of acoustic guitar materials that we will be covering on this site. Fingerstyle Guitar and Flatpicking Guitar will be the two picking styles that we will be looking at here.
Flatpicking Acoustic Guitar Lessons:
Flatpicking is a style that is common for the most part to Bluegrass guitar players. It is also known as plectrum picking. We will cover subjects like right and left hand location, how to place the pick, how to play efficiently and much more.
Left hand strategies is equally important as is the right hand. It is crucial that you learn how to finger notes and chords properly, effectively change between chords, and positions and a great deal more. I know that learning the fundamentals can seem unnecessary, but believe me when I say, that if you do nothing else but master these fundamentals, you will be a much better guitar player.
Proper playing proficiency and strict discipline are the key elements you need to concentrate on to become an exceptional player.
We will show you in extensive detail how to read TAB or tablature. Tablature is a musicians ‘shorthand’, and was developed for musicians who either didn’t know how to read music , or care to learn how. We will discover how to perform ornamental effects such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends and harmonics in tablature as well.
Last and certainly not least, we will consider some actual TAB’s in real detail to teach you the same strategies that flatpicking artist’s such as Tony Rice, Norman Blake, Doc Watson, and many others use. Use these secrets, and you will experience your playing will progress at an amazing pace.
Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Lessons or Fingerpicking Guitar:
Fingerstyle guitar gets it’s roots from ragtime music, where the guitarists of the time attempted to duplicate the ragtime piano pieces.
Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Merle Travis and countless other fabulous fingerstyle guitar artist’s took this style and put their own unique spin on it.
Although it is a very challenging style of guitar playing, it does give a impressive amount of satisfaction to the guitarist and the listener alike.
I would recommend that you first master flatpicking guitar prior to attempting to play fingerstyle guitar. This will make your passage to fingerstyle guitar much easier.
This way we can get a great deal of the preliminaries out of the way, such as the left hand position, reading TAB, learning ornamental techniques, and getting you going on some reasonable speed playing. Learning scales, positions and notes of the fretboard will also benefit you greatly, prior to moving on to fingerstyle guitar.
To benefit the most from these lessons, you will start out with basic exercises to gain from control and self-confidence and then we will gradually get you deeper into the process.
We will concentrate on the right hand strategies, as that is the greatest departure from flatpicking style guitar.
Also left hand differences will be covered with regards to chord forms and more. Next, we will examine actual song samples, take them apart and examine how they are played in detail, in order for you to understand the style and thus, articulate your own special style.
Also, we will be analyzing a number of actual breaks by a few of the most famous artist’s, such as Chet, Merle, Jerry and more. Since these artist’s are a some of the best guitar players, we can profit from their knowledge. Then you can take this knowledge and through tweaking it a bit, you cancreate your own unusual style.
After all, if you can ‘rip-off’ a great lick exactly how it was performed by Jerry Reed, that is very amazing indeed. But, why not interject your own strategies into this break to brand it uniquely your own style. We will teach you how to execute that.
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