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01-09-2013, 07:17 AM
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Looking for a learning agenda
I am self taught or untaught as the case may be with, looking to settle on a more structured learning program. I aspire to be an accomplished fingerstyle/folk style guitar player. I play solo for my own pleasure. I am looking for advise on either a good book based course or a dvd course to follow. My internet and old Mac are slow enough that I am not interested in online courses. Any ideas?
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01-09-2013, 08:09 AM
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can you narrow it down a bit more? Are you wanting to play like Kottke, like Don Ross, like Preston Reed, like Martin Simpson, like Big Bill Broonzy...? Name a few people/songs, and you'll get better suggestions.
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01-09-2013, 08:34 AM
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i've been learning fingerstyle blues and been following stefan grossman's learning process: http://www.guitarvideos.com/the-learning-process
I started with Fingerpicking Guitar Techniques vols 1 and 2 and now i'm on Fingepicking Country Blues. I don't know if fingerstyle blues is really your cup of tea, but i definitely feel i'm making progress. It's not really lessons so much as just learning songs, but each song you learn builds on the techniques learned in the previous ones, and by the time you're finished, you'll have a solid foundation in alternate-bass fingerpicking and have a pretty good repertoire of country blues. I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
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01-09-2013, 08:35 AM
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A good DVD to help you organize your fingerstyle skills is Pete Huttlinger's Essential Exercises for Fingerstyle Guitar. A good sample of what can be is John Carlini's Chord Solo Guitar Vol 1 & Vol 2. They are less instructional and more conversational. They do teach, but they assume you know quite a bit already. For fun, Al Petteway's DVD Celtic Blues and Beyond explores great use of DADGAD without it having to sound Irish. There are 2 Irish sounding pieces, a blues and a folky sounding piece taught on the DVD. Three camera angles selectable by the user. Laurence Juber has a number of DVDs for instruction. Good stuff. Tommy Emmanuel has a DVD titled Emmanuel Labor. It is instructional, and like Carlini's DVD, it's not for beginners. It's him playing a song and demonstrating how he plays it, and then breaking it down. Passage by passage... I figure the DVDs each cost the price of a single lesson, and they all bring far more benefit than a single lesson. Hope these help...
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01-09-2013, 08:53 AM
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You might try Gibson's Learn and Master finger style guitar
http://community.learnandmaster.com/...rstyle-guitar/
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01-13-2013, 09:53 AM
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You might want to check out Guitar Principles:
http://www.guitarprinciples.com/' The main book/DVD "Principles of Correct Practice for Guitar" (best to get 'em both - available in the "store" section, obviously I guess) and, really, Jamie's whole approach, emphasizes physical technique i.e. "how" to play as opposed to "what" to play. I'm just getting back into playing after a long layoff (long story) and I'm making the Principles my total focus right now. I'm a total believer in what Jamie preaches.
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01-13-2013, 10:47 AM
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01-13-2013, 01:21 PM
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