Styles / Fingerstyle Guitar

Fingerstyle Guitar

The term "fingerstyle" denotes any way of playing the acoustic guitar without a flatpick, using your fingers to pluck and strum the strings. You can play folk ballads, classical etudes, Celtic instrumentals, country blues, jazz and a myriad of other styles using this technique. An entire art form has arisen from the use of these techniques, personified by traditional musicians such as Merle Travis and Chet Atkins, as well as various contemporary Homespun artists like Al Petteway, Martin Simpson, Rory Block, Bob Brozman, Laurence Juber, Chris Proctor, Thom Bresh, Muriel Anderson and many others.

Bluegrass Guitar Fingerpicking Style

Eddie Adcock

Here's your chance to take guitar lessons from a bluegrass legend! Combining Travis-style fingerpicking with lightning-fast bluegrass runs, Eddie Adcock gets as exciting a guitar sound as you'll hear anywhere. You'll learn right-hand rolls, complex slides, pull-offs, hammer-ons, variations and alternating thumb/index finger combinations-techniques that will turn basic country tunes into musical adventures. You'll soon ... Read More