Course Category: Fingerstyle

Happy Birthday Fingerstyle

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Here are a couple of fingerstyle versions of Happy Birthday. The first is fairly simple and a good place to start. The second swing version is a little more “Jazzy”… A more complex arrangement but fun.

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Easy Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson for Beginners

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Playing fingerstyle is some of the most fun on the guitar. In this beginner finger style lesson I’ll show you the critical foundation that everyone who wants to play fingerstyle guitar should learn.

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Fingerpicking With a Flat Pick Guitar Tutorial

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I’ll show you a technique to use both your fingers AND a pick to play fingerpicking patterns. Not only will your bass notes sound crisp and clear, but you’ll be able to easily shift to strumming whenever the need arises.

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Picking Style Of Dust In The Wind

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Learn this classic fingerpicking pattern that’s used for the song Dust In The Wind by Kansas. In addition, it’s a great fingerpicking lesson that will help you play fingerstyle guitar.

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2nd Most Used Fingerpicking Pattern

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In this lesson, I show you step-by-step how to play the second most used finger-picking pattern for guitar. Wondering about #1? Don’t worry… I won’t disappoint. But first, let’s learn the second most used finger-picking pattern.

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How to Play Bossa Nova Rhythm

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Here’s an easy Bossa Nova strum that you can use on either a nylon string guitar or steel string guitar.

I’ll start with a simple version, then teach you how to embellish the basic pattern. To give you the full experience we’ll then apply the strum to some cool “bossa” chords.

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Rainbow Dance Fingerstyle

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Here’s a song exercise that is designed to help you work on hammer-ons, pull-offs and playing arpeggios. It just happens to sound cool also because it uses a chord pattern that has been used in many popular songs.

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Fisherman’s Dream (Fingerstyle)

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A fingerstyle song to work on playing solo guitar… the melody and bass notes together. Each lesson video focuses on one section of the song. In the end, we’ll put it all together.

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