Fingerstyle Basics

I’ll show you all the standard techniques that give your fingerstyle playing that much-needed flavor. We’ll start out with the basics such as hammer-ons and… Read More »Traditional Techniques

In this lesson you’ll learn how to add your middle finger (you know…the bird) into the arrangement, enabling you to start adding higher notes to… Read More »4. The Crab Bird Pinch Method

It’s exactly what it sounds like. You’ll learn how to pinch a variety of strings (just like a crab) using your thumb (T) and 1st… Read More »3. The Crab Pinch Method

Your thumb is the most valuable tool when learning to fingerpick. It helps maintain a steady rhythm over basic chords and progressions. Your thumb sets… Read More »2. Thumbs Up: Your Most Valuable Tool

This style is commonly played on steel-string acoustic guitars. Pattern picking uses “preset right-hand pattern[s]” while fingerpicking, with the left hand fingering standard chords. This… Read More »Travis Picking

 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.Read More »Percussive Fingerstyle Guitar In Use