I love the story Doyle Dykes tells of “Barry the sailor” teaching him fingerstyle guitar for the first time:
I still leaning fingerstyle late in life so have no pro tips, but if you’re looking for online instruction, I like David Hamburger’s lessons on TrueFire and Paul David’s fingerstyle lessons, but there’s a lot out there. One thing I’ve leaned is that one needs to start with—and master—basic picking patterns and build up from there. Trying to figure out Last Freight Train or Classical Gas is just going to lead to frustration. Ask me how I know.
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