Acoustic Guitar Lessons
With these free acoustic guitar lessons, you can choose whether you are interested to just brush-up a bit on your technique, or go all in and discover a few advanced methods that we will offer.I was a music instructor for the guitar for over 15 years and have been playing acoustic guitar for over 40 years.
We will showcase a lot of materials in the lessons that we will present. We will be covering the unique styles of Fingerstyle Guitar and Flatpicking Style guitar performance.
Lessons for Flatpick Acoustic Guitar:
Flatpicking is a style that is common 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.
We will cover subjects like right and left hand positioning, how to place the pick, how to play efficiently and much more. Also the left hand will be covered from how to position the neck, position the fingers, and actually play the notes.
I know that learning the fundamentals can seem unnecessary, but believe me when I say, that if you do nothing else but master these basics, you will be a much better guitar player.
Proper practicing approach and strict discipline are the key elements you need to concentrate on to become an exceptional player.
We will show you in extensive detail how to read TAB or tablature. We will offer lessons that extensively address strategies for executing hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, string bends and harmonics, which are also known as ornamental effects.
We will learn hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides and bends very extensively. These are also known as ornamental notes. These ornamental strategies are often considered intermediate or even advanced level of guitar playing, but it is important that you master them.
Ultimately, we will consider the TAB from actual breaks of a few of the top flatpicking artist’s such as Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Tony Rice and mant others. By learning a few of these breaks you will soon find yourself progressing from an intermediate guitar player to a master flatpicker.
Acoustic Guitar Lessons – Fingerstyle Approach:
Fingerstyle guitar gets it’s roots from ragtime music, where the guitarists of the time attempted to replicate the ragtime piano pieces.
Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Merle Travis and countless other fabulous fingerstyle guitar artist’s took this style and put their own extraordinary spin on it.
Although it is a very challenging style of guitar performance, it does give a outstanding amount of satisfaction to the guitarist and the listener alike.
I would suggest that you possess a pretty good command of performing the guitar with the flatpick before you elect to take on fingerstyle guitar.
By implementing this we get most of the basics out of the way such as left hand strategies, reading TAB, getting some reasonable speed going, and learning the ornamental strategies. Learning scales, positions and notes of the fretboard will also benefit you greatly, prior to moving on to fingerstyle guitar.
By starting out with fundamental strategies and exercises, you will gain self-confidence, which will propel you into more advanced lesson materials. Although the right hand proficiency will be our fundamental focus for fingerstyle, there will be subtle changes to the left hand approach that will be addressed as well.
The next step will be to take a few actual song samples and analyze them in detail. This way once you understand in detail, how and why certain breaks are played, you can go on to develop your own distinctive style.
We will do this by taking sample breaks from such guitar greats as Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed and many others. After all, these performers are regarded as a number of of the best, so let’s begin by copying from them. You can start to produce your own distinctive style by analyzing these breaks. If you could faithfully play one of Chet Atkins riffs, you would sound very very amazing. But, if you make it uniquely your own arrangement, based on one of the masters licks – that’s even better! Our lessons will cover how you can do that.
If you would like more information about guitar lessons for the acoustic guitar visit Acoustic Guitar Lessons. Also, for even more information about guitar lessons see Free Acoustic Guitar Lessons.
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