Video - Fingerpicking Guitar

The Real Merle Travis Guitar: Like Father, Like Son
You won't find anyone better than Thom Bresh to teach you how to play Merle Travis guitar style-the right way! The only son of the legendary guitarist, Thom gives us an in-depth look at the famous technique that changed the course of guitar history. (He even plays Merle's famous 1938 Martin D-28 with the custom Bigsby neck.) Thom takes you-step-by -step-through essential Travis techniques and teaches you these show-stoppers: "Guitar Rag," "Cannonball Rag," "Walking The Strings," "I'll See You In My Dreams," "Bugle Call Rag," "Farewell My Blue Belle," "Hangin' With The Girls I Know."

Fingerstyle Bluegrass Guitar of Eddie Adcock
Here's your chance to take guitar lessons from a bluegrass legend! Combining Travis-style fingerpicking with lightning-fast bluegrass runs, Eddie Adcock gets as exciting a guitar sound as you'll hear anywhere. You'll learn right-hand rolls, complex slides, pull-offs, hammer-ons, variations and alternating thumb/index finger combinations-techniques that will turn basic country tunes into musical adventures.
 

Happy Traum's Guitar Building Blocks: Instant Fingerpicking Success
The fingerpicking style is one of the most popular and engaging ways of playing the guitar. It's especially good for song accompaniment, and has been favored by folk, blues and country pickers, especially singer-songwriters such as James Taylor, Paul Simon, Shawn Colvin and Nanci Griffith. This lesson de-mystifies the right-hand technique by breaking it down into patterns that can be learned quickly and easily. Once these are mastered, a world of wonderful sounds will be available on the guitar, and you'll be able to apply them to some all-time favorite folk and traditional songs such as "Nine Hundred Miles," "Red Apple Juice," "Railroad Bill" and "Pretty Peggy-O."
 

Beginning Fingerpicking Guitar with Mike McAdoo
Mike takes the beginning fingerpicker one step at a time starting with what fingers to use, what picks to use, the basic fingerpicking patterns, & how to learn them efficiently. You will learn beginning picking patterns, Chet Atkins style, Merle Travis style, Flowing Style, syncopation, & everything you will need to know for the right foundation in fingerpicking. Songs Include: I’ll Fly Away, Nine Pound Hammer, Aura Lee (Love Me Tender), House of the Rising Sun, Freight Train, Silent Night, McAdoo's Blues, Jingle Bells, A Closer Walk with Thee, Mr. Bojangles.

Fingerstyle Guitar: New Dimensions & Explorations, Volume 2
 

Legends of Traditional Fingerstyle Guitar
 

Anyone Can Play Fingerstyle Guitar
 

The Art of Fingerstyle Guitar
 

Great Guitar Lessons: Fingerstyle Techniques
Some of the most creative and compelling contemporary music in recent years has been made by acoustic fingerstyle guitarists. The term "fingerstyle" denotes the use of thumb and two or three fingers of the picking hand to achieve moving bass lines, sharply delineated melodies and complex harmonies. Some artists use classical guitar techniques to create their music, others blend classical elements with traditional folk styles. Some fingerstylists apply their skills to enhancing song accompaniments, while others push the boundaries of the guitar with new and inventive sounds. This overview of fingerstyle repertoire and technique will immerse you in the work of eight guitarists who are redefining contemporary guitar music. They will give you much to work on.

Ultimate Beginner: Beyond Basics - Fingerstyle Guitar
 

Celtic Insrumentals for Fingerstyle Guitar, Video One
Learn to play exquisite arrangements in DADGAD using droning bass notes, slides, bends and other guitar techniques that imitate the haunting sounds of harps and pipes. One of today’s most admired fingerstyle players provides invaluable insights into the beauty of Celtic music, along with a variety of guitar techniques: syncopated rhythm strokes, “cross-string” playing, modal scales and exercises for gaining maximum control, speed and fluidity. You’ll learn how to find the notes and chords in DADGAD, and five beautiful pieces: Sligo Creek, Rise Up My Love, New Year’s Day, On Christmas Night and Chesapeake.
 

Celtic Instrumentals for Fingerstyle Guitar, Video Two
Play powerful and evocative arrangements of traditional Irish and Scottish instrumentals using a variety of tunings—Standard, Dropped D, Open G and Low C. Embellishments such as bagpipe-like drone notes, moving bass lines, chord substitutions, harmonics, right hand rolls, the “Scottish Snap” and other techniques help you turn basic tunes into elegant guitar pieces. Songs: Fy to the Hills in the Morning (Johnny Cope), Light and Airy (a slip jig), Sidh beag sidh mor, Red Haired Boy, Jock O’Hazeldean and Caledon Wood.
 

Beginning Fingerpicking Guitar
 

Fingerstyle Guitar
 

Fingerstyle Guitar: New Dimensions & Explorations, Volume 1
 

Fingerstyle Guitar: New Dimensions & Explorations, Volume 3