In this seminar you’ll learn my process for creating your own fingerstyle arrangements.

I also reference a series of fingerstyle songs and warm ups. You can download those PDF worksheets by clicking the button below the video.

My voice was horse because I stayed up late that night thinking that single malt whiskey would help me sleep better. I really was nervous for both webinars, but I’d definitely do it all again.

1:25 –Stage 1: Choose a song that you know extremely well

2:13 -Learning “Let It Be”

3:10 – Training your ear: Ear Master Pro – LINK 

3:28 – Stage 2: Come up with the melody using the guitar

5:30 – Sticking to frets 1 to 5 when creating your fingerstyle arrangement

6:00 – Stage 3: Adding the base notes

7:28 – Stage 4: Adding techniques to spice up your fingerstyle arrangement

6 Fingerstyle Best Practices

11:46 – Best practice no. 1: Fingerstyle rule

14:17 – Best practice no. 2: Pluck don’t pull

15:38 – Best practice no. 3: Using your right ring finger as an anchor when plucking strings

17:43 – Best practice no. 4: Adding increasingly challenging finger picking patterns

18:43 – Best practice no. 5: Long sounding notes

19:46 – Best practice no. 6: Make sure your tone is good before speeding things up – “Speed is a byproduct of accuracy”