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elementarymusic 01-16-2019 05:49 PM

Best intermediate fingerstyle learning
 
Hello everyone.

I am mostly self-taught. I’ve been playing for around 30 years. I play acoustic only. Some basic finger style and rhythm guitar for church.

I’ve been so inspired by YouTube finger style covers that I really want to become better at finger style. I have some basic finger style "hits" books and I’m pretty good at learning simple tabs.

Are there any good resources that anyone can recommend? Either online courses, DVD courses, or books. I have found that most of the books I’ve bought are either very simple and easy or way too hard. If there is a method book or a method website for finger style I would also be really interested in that.

I have found that, if the book says easy finger style, I can usually sight read it pretty easily. But if it is a book of authentic tabs, it is usually too hard.
Thanks.

Rosewood99 01-16-2019 06:53 PM

https://www.guitarnick.com/the_fines...yle_songs.html

sdelsolray 01-16-2019 07:02 PM

Just to be clear, you want to play solo fingerstyle, i.e., no vocals and each piece you play contains all needed or desired melodic, harmonic and rhythmic elements?

nolegsfngrpickn 01-16-2019 07:07 PM

Do you have independence with your thumb yet? Meaning can you maintain a bass line whether that be Travis picking or something else with your thumb and carry a melody with the other fingers?

elementarymusic 01-16-2019 07:09 PM

Thanks for the guitar nick files!

Yes, I want everything on the guitar. No vocals.

elementarymusic 01-16-2019 07:12 PM

I can travis pick Dust in the Wind style. My level of picking right now is easy finger style. This one was easy for me to learn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnC_mWpxzJ8

I don't think I've done much alternate bass.

PetesaHut 01-16-2019 08:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulzoom (Post 5950649)

I just found him the other day and can recommend him too

darylcrisp 01-16-2019 08:29 PM

highly recommend pegheadNation. if you look on the opening page there is usually a free 30 day offering on any of the courses. they offer up some world class players who are also excellent teachers-something that's not always the case.
the cost is very reasonable imo also.
youtube is fun and you can find some things quickly, but with a course, you get a graduated program that takes you step by step and leads to a positive direction, rather than wandering around and maybe not heading in the best direction-hope that makes sense.
good luck

https://pegheadnation.com/

Eonratslea500 01-16-2019 11:45 PM

Stevie Coyle is the best instructor on peghead nation imho

Eonratslea500 01-16-2019 11:54 PM

Toby Walker has a nice website with lessons.
https://www.tobywalkerslessons.com

The grand poobah of fingerstyle instruction is the venerable Stefan Grossman. Sit at the masters feet and learn the ways of a fingerstyle Jedi. He is an amazing player and gifted instructor.
Www.guitarvideos.com

That’s where all the masters live. When you’ve got some skills under your belt, Take potions with John Miller. His teaching is a bit dry, but he’s another freakin genius when it comes to country blues and ragtime. 100 points to Ravenclaw!

Martie 01-17-2019 01:56 AM

There's lots of solo fingerstyle courses on Truefire. The only problem is, you'll be spoilt for choice (especially on top of all the above!).

colins 01-17-2019 03:01 AM

Another thought for you - https://www.homespun.com/ I've found some great lessons there in the past.

elementarymusic 01-17-2019 06:55 AM

Thanks, all! A lot of great suggestions!

srick 01-17-2019 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Eonratslea500 (Post 5950854)
Toby Walker has a nice website with lessons.
https://www.tobywalkerslessons.com

I second this!

Ed66 01-17-2019 08:24 AM

As previously mentioned Guitar Nick is a good sight. Two others are Dan C. Holloway's site https://www.dancholloway.com/ and Kelly Valleau's site https://www.kellyvalleau.com/

Dan's site is good since it breaks down songs by complexity -- so you don't necessarily bite off too much at once. He's also got quite a list of songs, all of which have tab and video lessons, although the video lessons are done at a fairly high level and really are meant as a support for the tabs -- unless you are a relatively advanced player.

Kelly's site focuses on his fingerstyle takes on generally newer music. Some can be quite complex. I recently finished "cleaning up" his version of Bon Jovi's "Dead or Alive" and it took me several months from beginning to end.


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