Fingerstyle isn’t just a technique, it’s a way to make your guitar come alive. By playing melody, harmony, and rhythm all at once, you’ll sound like a full band with just two hands.

• Musical independence - Play bass lines, chords, and melodies simultaneously.

• Personal growth - Strengthen coordination, timing, and musical understanding, whether you’re a beginner or seasoned player

• Rich Repertoire - Explore songs across genres from modern fingerstyle masterpieces back through the folk boom to early blues and ragtime

• Creative Versatility - Learn to arrange your favorite songs or create your own unique guitar pieces

• Tradition & innovation: Connect with time-honored styles while exploring new, modern approaches to guitar

• Essential Fingerstyle Techniques - Including Thumb/finger independence, alternating bass, Travis picking, syncopation, and more

• Advanced Techniques - Percussive playing, harmonics, tapping, ornamentation, etc.

• Alternate Tunings - Drop D, DADGAD, Open G, Open D, etc.

• Particular Styles - Celtic, piedmont or delta blues, folk, folk baroque, modern or percussive fingerstyle

• Repertoire & Arranging - Learn classic tunes or arrange your favorites for solo guitar, from folk and blues to pop and movie themes

• Reading & Theory - Develop your understanding of music theory, chord/melody arrangement, and reading tablature or standard notation for two hands

• Improvisation & Songwriting - Use fingerstyle as a tool for composing, improvising, or accompanying your own songs.

• History & Inspiration - Discover fingerstyle's roots, its popularity in British and American folk, and its emergence as its own, modern "genre"