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...
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