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Hanson's Art of Solo Fingerpicking....
I've had this book for years and tonight I dusted it off. There are some nifty arrangements in here.
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Anything in particular in the Art of Solo book you could recommend to a beginner fingerpicker? Thanks,
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You are SO right, Barry. I need to do the same with mine. Good idea...
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I am just getting into Hanson's Solo book as well. I quickly worked thru the one before, on Travis picking. But Travis isn't my interest, albeit it is useful to know. Right now I'm working on Red & White Rag in Solo. It's a nice little piece, still Travis picking. I'm focusing on it, however, to build up some dexterity and accuracy, with both hands. Right after this piece, the book looks to get into making music your own, which is my real interest.
If/when I get Red & White Rag nailed down, if I can figure how, I might record myself playing it and post it here....if I'm brave enough! No promises.
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Whether or not Travis picking is where you want to ultimately go, Mark Hanson's books are easy to understand and to get. Travis style will give you dexterity in moving about the fretboard as well as a very strong sense of rhythm and syncopation, and get you involved in mapping what you see on the printed page with what you do on the fretboard. In other words, you are learning a bunch of valuable skills through actually PLAYING the instrument.
It is as good a way as any to get into fingerstyle, unless you want to go the classical guitar route (in which case Travis style won't hurt, but there is a methodology that has been developed over a few hundred years that is typical taught). Tony
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Are you saying to video myself, or merely record? I'd be really shy about video! Yes, Red, White and Blue Rag is difficult for me because of the fingering changes on the fretboard from the C measure to the F measure and back again. Also the hammer ons/pull offs on the 2nd page. But I'm working at it!
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I'm up to White House Blues in Art of Solo Fingerstyle. I take Skype lessons with Mark and we've taken a detour in that he gave me a transcription of Windy And Warm I am working on and he also gave a nice solo fingerstyle version of James Taylor's Sweet Baby James that I am starting on. I like that song a lot and pretty psyched to get a solo fingerstyle version to work with. I'm going to skip Over the Waves (just don't like that song) and next take on Etude. FWIW, Mark told me to skip Devil's Dream until I got further along. He told me that if he had to do the book over, he would put that song in the latter third.
If you like Freight Train, the version in Contemporary Travis Picking is a great and relatively simple version to get started with but you get a more embellished version in Art of Solo fingerstyle. I also learned Tony Polecasto's version so it's fun to do a medley of all three. The best tip I can share for RWB rag is to get used to doing the F chord with your thumb wrapped over the neck and catching the low E and your IMA fingers doing the treble notes on that chord. Mark suggested I try to get really used to playing the F chord like that for nearly all my fingerstyle playing as it's tough to setup a barre chord F and stay in tempo.
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Thanks, SprintBob, for the tip on how to play the F chord in RW&B Rag, and also about Devil's Dream. I might move right on past that one and come back to it later.
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However, if the next thing depends on having mastered the current thing (i.e. a technique or understanding of a critical point is used in the next thing), then you could be asking for trouble. When self-teaching you alone have to make this call. By trying the next thing, it should become apparent soon enough though. Tony
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SprintBob, one thing that is stumping me in Hanson's Solo book is the lack of information on fingering for the fretting hand for the exercises that I'm working on now, pages 13 and 14. I'm especially struggling with Exercise 14B because I can't figure out the fingering on the fretboard.
Exercise B goes from an Em in the first measure to four chords on one measure: Em to D/F# to G to A, and then to D in the last measure. But no instruction on fret fingers. How did you handle Exercises 14A and 14B for fret fingering? As I look ahead to exercises further along in the book, I don't see instruction on fretboard fingering, either. This is an issue I have had with songbooks I've worked with....figuring out the best fingering on the fretboard from measure to measure.
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14A C Chord position with the pinky on that 3rd fret 2nd string note. 14B You can use index, middle then into a standard d chord fingering or use the middle ring and pinky. Isolated like this common sense says go with the standard d chord shape at the end (index middle ring) but sometimes you might have to use middle ring and pinky to play the d chord. Its good to be able to play the d chord both ways as its very quick to go into a C or F chord after middle ring pinky approach to a d chord. Try doing a D chord played middle pinky ring, (middle on g string 2nd fret, pinky on b string, third fret and ring finger e string, second fret) then keep the middle finger planted on the 3rd string and rotate into an f chord. You'll see what I mean.
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