Fingerstyle Focus – Learn to play Fingerstyle Guitar!
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What you’ll learn
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Upon completion, you’ll be able to play fingerstyle guitar in a range of styles – successfully emulating players like Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, James Taylor, Paul Simon and John Mayer!
This course has been designed from the ground up to teach you proper technique for fingerstyle guitar playing – covering a wide range of techniques found in all styles of guitar playing. In this course you’ll be taught by a world class tutor ensuring you learn the correct technique from day 1 with no bad habits!
The course is broken into 5 chapters – in these you’ll learn everything from how to properly attack the strings through to how to play like your favourite fingerstyle players. This is done through a mixture of lessons, exercises and musical studies. The course includes 5 arrangements in the style of your favourite artists (Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Lennon/McCartney, Paul Simon and John Mayer), as well as two arrangements for solo fingerstyle guitar in which you’ll learn to play the melody and accompaniment at the same time!
If you’re new to fingerstyle guitar then this course will take you from where you are today through to being able to play like your favourite artists. Even if you’re already a confident fingerstyle guitarist, this course is a ‘must have’ – you can revisit the course whenever you feel like your technique and coordination needs a ‘tune up’!
The course tutor is Stuart Ryan – a professional guitarist, with over 20 years experience playing for Studio Sessions, TV, Film and as a concert guitarist. Stuart’s also a well known educator, as Head of Guitar at BIMM Bristol and for 15 years he was a regular educational columnist to Guitarist, Guitar Techniques and Acoustic Guitar magazines; as well as being featured in many national publications. Stuart’s taught thousands of guitarists, many of whom have gone on to play professionally – you’re in great hands!
So whatever your reason for being here, if you’re looking to learn or improve your fingerstyle skills then this is the course for you!
Who this course is for:
- This course has been designed from the ground up for anybody who wants to learn to play fingerstyle guitar! You’ll be learning from an industry leading tutor and performer (Stuart Ryan), so you know you’ll be receiving all the best advice and technique from day 1!
12 reviews for Fingerstyle Focus – Learn to play Fingerstyle Guitar!
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Mike Stitt –
Excellent finger picking course. Has taken me from the basics through to some significantly more complex material. Enjoyable, clear and at just the right pace to allow me to go on further from this.
Glenn Wootton –
This is something I have wanted to learn on guitar for many years. This course makes the learning process easy and fun. No stress because I can take it at my own pace.
Thelearner25 –
The aim of this course is to teach fingerstlyle guitar to beginners. The instructor present very clearly the techniques to be taught in each video. Certainly, even a very beginner can improve with this course. The purpose of many peoples interested in music is to be able to play, sing songs they learned, not just to learn different techniques. In the section about roll (ex. 8) Stuart Ryan says that this technique taught is very useful in banjo and blues, unfortunately, he does not teach an example to apply it.
The second section very interesting is about connecting chords. The instructor teach a series of progressions on which are applied fingerstyle patterns. He says in the first exercise that such patterns where very popular in the 60s and 70s, unfortunately, he does not teach any song from this period, which used this pattern.
The next section is very interesting, Stuart Ryan presents in full details how with a simple melody, one can create a blues with the E chord by adding bass lines and syncopation. We would definitively, have liked to play a fingerstyle blues song which is constructed like so. Unfortunately, the instructor does not provide any reference about that.
In the next section, he teaches icons styles. We do believe that the material taught in that section will definitively, help us to play songs of these icons, but which ones ? The instructor is not referring any of icons songs.
Surprisingly, in the last section, instead of illustrating, roll techniques, icons, fingerstyle blues, with concrete songs built with the material previously taught, the instructor has chosen to teach Auld Lang Syne and Danny Boy.
To conclude, we can see that this course is very interesting, because, it contained a lot of techniques like rolls patterns, travis picking like patterns, percussions, blues syncopations,… but unfortunately, it does not really help the beginner to build a repertoire by learning modern songs. This is very surprising, we could have expected that such a talented instructor, winner of many awards will have design a course more enjoyable.
Yong Chai Rickylow –
It fully meet my expectation. The tutor teaches slowly giving ample times for students to easily follows on which is excellent.
Jeannette Spencer –
So far, this course is exactly what I’m looking for. The instructor is clear and concise, at a comfortable speed for learning finger style.
Luis Ongay –
Very good
Blake Soller –
I like it
Ray Strohl –
So far it seems the instructor is moving too quickly. Did I miss, at the beginning, the instructor what level of guitar player he expected this class to be.
Gerard Budd –
Great!!
Jus Pusa –
Mr Ryan is a good teacher. Explanation is clear and it is easy to follow along with the guitar while watching. Besides, i love the arrangments of the two classics. Thanks.
James Png –
Yes so far
Malrie e Johnson –
I have enjoyed the pace of this course and the teaching style. Clear views of the picking hand with the instructor setting the pace in the play along. Very helpful in developing the muscle memory for the picking patterns.