Beginning Fingerstyle Lessons

A friend of mine wanted to start learning to play fingerstyle guitar and since I've gone down this path recently, I thought I'd share what I've done. I created a set of lessons that start off with a simple arpeggio pattern a la "Julie Andrews", a waltz pattern, then a set of exercises that begin to work the thumb and fingers and prepare you to separate the thumb and fingers. This is not hard, but tedious because in essence you undo a life of neural connections that make the thumb and fingers work in unison. The goal of the lessons is to get them to do their own thing.

Here's a link to the lesson as a pdf. Scott's Beginning Fingerstyle