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Guitar chord forum - chordie → Acoustic → Best method for learning fingerstyle
I have been playing for about 2 years. I Am very comfortable with most chords, Barre chords, powers chords, etc. I now want to learn fingerstyle guitar. Can anyone point me to the best way to begin? A book or DVD that you know is good?
Thanks.
The book I learned from is called "FINGERSTYLE" by LOU MANZI it sells for around $12.00 with the CD it cost $20.95 and the cd follows each lesson and is very easy to follow,all the great fingerstyle guitarist are included like Adredian legg,ry cooder,chet atlins ,merle travis,lightning hopkins and a bunch more so I learnred from that book and the cd and it worked. good luck
I've been using a Mel Bay book titled "You Can Teach Yourself Fingerstyle Guitar". It comes with a CD and is easy to follow. It's chock full of good exercises and patterns. I've ignored most of the lessons and just used some of the patterns I liked and then started applying them to songs or making up my own patterns to fit the songs. But the first dozen lessons or so are critical to getting your fingers to work and how to make them work. The hardest part is getting your thumb to keep a bass line going while getting your fingers to do a different fill line. I kind of gave up on doing that and started doing some rhythm stuff with all the fingers just doing their own thing.
Anyway, as you can tell from my ridiculously loose interpretation, my recommendation is to just jump in after getting a little basic learning, which I expect pretty much any book from a reputable publisher can give you.
Guitar chord forum - chordie → Acoustic → Best method for learning fingerstyle
