There are a great deal of subjects that will be covered in our lessons. Fingerstyle Guitar and Flatpicking Guitar will be the two picking styles that we will be covering here.
Flatpicking Lessons for Acoustic Guitar:
Also known as Bluegrass Guitar, or plectrum guitar picking, this style will be covered in detail from the basics of how to hold the flatpick, how to posture your right hand for the most efficient picking, and how to acquire playing speed. Also the left hand will be covered from how to hold the neck, locate the fingers, and actually play the notes. I know that learning the fundamentals can seem unneeded, but believe me when I say, that if you do nothing else but master these basics, you will be a much better guitar player. The difference between a really outstanding guitar players and the average player is mainly in the precise technique.
TAB or tablature is a subject that we will teach you in detail. Tablature is a musicians 'shorthand', and was developed for musicians who either didn't know how to read music , or care to know how. We will address hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and bends very extensively. These are also known as ornamental notes. You will promptly master these ornamental techniques even though they border on intermediate to advanced guitar strategies.
Also we will be evaluating TAB song breaks to teach you the strategies used by several of the top flatpicking artist's. These are some real secrets that will help you perform the leap from a mediocre player to a phenomenal player.
Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Lessons or Fingerpicking Guitar:
Fingerstyle guitar gets it's beginnings from ragtime music, where the guitarists of the time attempted to replicate the ragtime piano pieces. Most recently, this style of performance the guitar has been improved to an even higher degree by means of such artist's as Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Merle Travis and countless others. While this guitar style proves to be rather challenging to the guitarist, it does give a tremendous amount of gratification to the player and the listener alike.
I recommend that you know your way around the flatpicking guitar style before you attempt to master fingerstyle guitar. It will make your transition into the fingerstyle method much smoother. This way we can get a great deal of the preliminaries out of the way, such as the left hand position, reading TAB, learning ornamental techniques, and getting you going on some reasonable speed playing. You will also learn about the notes on the fretboard, playing in positions, and scales.
In order to get the greatest benefit from these lessons, we will start out with a few fundamental exercises to build technique and confidence and gradually get your feet wet. We will concentrate on the right hand techniques, as that is the greatest departure from flatpicking style guitar. Also left hand differences will be covered with regards to chord forms and more. Next, we will analyze actual song samples, take them apart and study how they are played in detail, in order for you to understand the style and thus, articulate your own special style.
We will do this through taking sample breaks from such guitar greats as Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed and many others. After all, these people are regarded as a number of of the best, so let's begin by copying from them. You can build your own unique style by analyzing these arrangements and breaks. After all, if you can perform a impressive fingerstyle guitar lick exactly how it was performed by means of Chet Atkins, that is would be very impressive indeed. But, if you make it uniquely your own arrangement, based on one of the masters licks - that's even better! Our lessons will cover how you can do that.
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