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Let's ask Willie:
The guitar even has its own wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigger_(guitar)
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Along the way, I have learned other fingerstyle songs outside of the material in Mark’s books including the fingerstyle milestone Windy and Warm, Fleetwood Mac songs like Landslide and Never Going Back, and most recently a beautiful and addictive song called Shooting Star by Masaaki Kishibe that I learned about from fellow AGF’er TBman. Important to note that without the foundational skills I learned from Hanson’s instruction, all of these would have been much more difficult. Whether you choose Mark’s material or something else, try to find a structured course with songs and exercises to progress by and if you can afford it, a good teacher whether live or with Skype. For my Skype lessons, I plug into a 32” monitor and I see everything Mark is doing and he sees everything I am doing. It works well.
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My motivation for learning fingerstyle pieces is the same as it was/is for learning guitar... to play the songs I want to play. So while theres a lot of good advice here it may be good to think about what you want to play? While anything can be played fingerstyle, I’m learning songs that are written as fingerstyle. For example Blackbird is a great intro song as well as Landslide. But of course you want to find songs that appeal to you. By picking out songs that are already fingerstyle it’s much easier to avoid reaching for the pick😉
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If you like country blues, some easy transcriptions of four Mississippi John Hurt songs were a cool place for me to begin with in this style: Stefan Grossman's Masters of Country Blues Guitar: The Anthology of Country Blues Guitar
https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Count.../dp/0898986931
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Hi 3notes,
I was in your shoes a year and a half ago. I blame the AGF I started with the Mark Hanson books (and by no means have I completed them!) and Toby Walker's intro to fingerpicking video. I still play that stuff a lot--Freight Train, Oh Susannah, and lot's of folk/blues tunes like Do Lord Remember Me, You are My Sunshine, etc. After 6 months or so I realized I needed help if I was going to progress very far. My technique seemed to be holding me back, but I was't sure what was wrong, it just felt hinky. I'm not a young guy and probably don't adjust to new things like I used to. I found a great teacher on lessons.com and I do half an hour a week with him. Cost is a lot less than I had expected. Lots of exercises and one short tune a week. This approach has worked for me, my playing is a lot smoother and I've learned a bunch of new techniques. But the focus is still on fundamentals, not repertoire at this point. So I would say the key word is patience, and lay a good foundation. It is great to pick up a Tommy E. or Pete Huttlinger tab and muddle through it once in a while, but that approach didn't work for me. I'm still not playing that kind of stuff very well after a year and a half, and may never get there. That is OK, the journey is a lot of fun and well worth the effort. I wish you lots of luck, much dedication and most importantly patience.
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These simple patterns are what has helped me... I've got to try Tonyo's recommended pattern. The one my teacher started me on was Bass Note, index on G string, different string bass note, middle on B string. The next ones were Bass Note, followed by pinching 2 strings and then fill out the bar with a similar pattern. Good stuff. It's been pretty rewarding. I'm almost at that point I can just figure out how to finger pick a progression instead of strumming it pretty quickly/naturally. I think the other thing that is really motivating for me is you pretty much immediately unlock some new sounds with whatever guitar you play... both my acoustic and my telecaster basically have a different voice with fingers vs pick, it's like getting a bunch of new gear for free. Last edited by beninma; 07-09-2018 at 03:21 PM. |
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A strumming fried who's learned my starter pattern dropped in a couple of days ago. He said what's fascinated him in learning fingerstyle is realizing how sloppy he'd become with strumming his chords. a loose finger here / there he got away with when strumming but not when playing fingerstyle. If your fingerstyle isn't sounding clean, that might be part of the problem. |
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