Acoustic Guitar Lessons
We will offer free acoustic guitar lessons to both the beginning guitar player and the more advanced player who wishes to bone-up on their technique. I have been practicing guitar for over 40 years and was a guitar instructor for 15 of those years.
You will be able to obtain a great deal of lesson materials on this site. The two major acoustic guitar picking styles that will be covered are Flatpicking Guitar and Fingerstyle Guitar.
Lessons for Flatpick Acoustic Guitar:
Flatpicking is a style that is customary for the most part to Bluegrass guitar players. It is also known as plectrum picking. We will cover subjects like right and left hand location, how to position the pick, how to play efficiently and much more.
Also the left hand will be covered from how to grasp the neck, position the fingers, and actually play the notes. Starting with the basics is essential and mastering them may well be the most crucial thing you can possibly do. If you don’t play with proper approach, your playing will suffer. The difference between a really impressive guitar players and the average player is mainly in the appropriate proficiency.
TAB or tablature is a subject that we will teach you in detail. As you may know Tablature was developed by musicians who did not know how to read standard notation in the staff. It is commonly referred to a TAB.
These are typically known as hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends and harmonics for your learning pleasure. These ornamental techniques are often considered intermediate or even advanced level of guitar practicing, but it is important that you master them.
Lastly, we will be examining a few of the TAB breaks from such impressive flatpicking guitar masters such as Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Norman Blake and others. Use these secrets, and you will experience your practicing will proceed at an amazing pace.
Acoustic Guitar Lessons – Fingerstyle Approach:
This technique has it’s roots based in ragtime and blues type guitar performance. The fingerstyle contemporaries, such as Jerry Reed, Merle Travis and Chet Atkins, popularized this sound, and brought it to levels never before witnessed.
This tends to be a somewhat challenging method of perfroming the guitar, but it gives a enormous amount of satisfaction to the performer and the listener alike.
Having a good feel of the guitar with a flatpick is recommended prior to jumping into fingerstyle guitar. This will facilitate your transition. With flatpicking under your belt, you will be able to put certain strategies behind you such as left hand methods, ornamental mastery, speed training, TAB reading and more. You will also learn about the notes on the fretboard, practicing in positions, and scales.
You will start out very slowly with some simple exercises, and gradually get your feet wet in the procedure. There will be a considerable amount of attention on the left hand, the right hand fingering styles, picking styles, chord patterns and chord forms.
In order for you to create your own special style, we will take actual song samples and study them in detail, just how they are played and why certain methods are used.
Also, we will be analyzing some actual breaks by some of the most famous artist’s, such as Chet, Merle, Jerry and more. Let’s not re-invent the wheel at this point because we can begin by copying their licks. You can start to produce your own distinctive style through analyzing these breaks.
After all, if you can ‘rip-off’ a great lick exactly how it was performed through Jerry Reed, that is very outstanding indeed. Think how much more of an accomplishment it would be to re-arrange the break and brand it uniquely your own. you will learn how to manage that.
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