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Category: Fingerstyle Guitar

  • Goodbye Blue Sky

    Part 1 Complete Transcription (PDF): Goodbye Blue Sky – Pink Floyd Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

  • Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin (Part 4)

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    This interlude is easier to play than the main riff that we’ve already learned. There are two variations. In the first, the basic chord progression is C, D, Fmaj7, Am, C, G, D: In the variation, in the last 2 measures, the chord progression is slightly altered with the G being replaced by D and…

  • Basic Fingerstyle Exercises

    Here is a collection of basic fingerstyle exercises that will help you build up your fretting and picking hand. Each exercise includes a variation for both fretting and picking hand. Since we should already all know about basic open chords and basic barre chords, the ‘fretting’ hand exercises involve techniques we’ve already learned under “Basic Techniques 1” for added…

  • Travis Picking

    This style is commonly played on steel string acoustic guitars. Pattern picking is the use of “preset right-hand pattern[s]” while fingerpicking, with the left hand fingering standard chords. This involves playing a steady bass pattern with the thumb and filling out some syncopated rhythms with the fingers of the right hand (assuming a right handed guitarist). It is a…

  • Percussive Fingerstyle Guitar In Use

     Many of you may have already learned this, but it is part of learning how to apply percussive fingerstyle, and I think this is still one of the best songs to use this for. This actually USES the body of the guitar to create percussion as opposed to the “Aerial Boundaries” lesson that can be interpreted either way.

  • The History of Fingerstyle Guitar

    Because notes are struck by individual digits rather than the hand working as a single unit, fingerstyle playing allows the guitarist to perform several musical elements simultaneously. One definition of the technique has been put forward by the Toronto (Canada) Fingerstyle Guitar Association: Physically, Fingerstyle refers to using each of the right hand fingers independently…

  • Fingerstyle Guitar: Low Melody And High Melody

    In this tutorial we’ll explore low melody and high melody by studying  a rendition of the song “Danny Boy” in which we’ve applied fingerstyle. The song snippet itself isn’t hard to play or even finger, but you’ll see that there are a quite a few note-related points of interest. This is VERY common in fingerstyle guitar. You really have…

  • Dust In The Wind by Kansas

    Difficulty: Intermediate Dust In The Wind (Complete Tab) PDF Dust In The Wind Chords And Lyrics TXT In this classic riff, you will be playing fingerstyle chords while allowing the notes to ring throughout the measures. The progression is based around standard chords that place emphasis on the root notes, set at 94 bpm (beats per minute). The…

  • “Tears In Heaven” by Eric Clapton

    Difficulty: Easy – Intermediate

  • Leader of the Band by Dan Fogelberg

    Difficulty: Intermediate