Want to play fingerstyle or fingerpicking guitar? Here's what I recommend to work on as the first step.

Here's a simple way to start working on classical guitar improvisation. Techniques in this lesson are taken from Mauro Giuliani's Etude No. 1 in E minor and then used for improvisation.

It's a shame that improvisation techniques are not addressed in typical classical guitar lessons. The benefits...

In this video I walk through exactly how to play a classic bossa nova rhythmic accompaniment pattern.

Great sounding classical guitar and fingerstyle playing is all about the right hand!

Well, at least half of it is any way :)

If we can get the right hand feeling and sounding good then it makes everything else we want to do SO much easier.

In this video I walk through a silver-bullet exercise...

Barre chords are hard! Here's how I suggest practicing them.

In this video I teach how to play 7th chords through a major key along the 5th string on the guitar, and then how to add awesome sounding diminished seven approach chords in-between every chord from the scale

Do you wish you could tune your guitar quickly by ear, get it more in tune than a tuner does, and improve your musical ear all at once?

In this video I explain and demonstrate seven ways to tune a guitar by ear without a tuner. These seven approaches combined are guaranteed to get your guitar...

In this video lesson I teach and demonstrate the one technique warm up to do when your practice time is limited.

Outline (use the links to jump to that section of the video on YouTube)

0:00 - Introduction
0:22 - Why warming up is important
2:40 - Exercise setup
3:20 - Sheet music and full...