Monday, March 14, 2011

Free Acoustic Guitar Lessons

By David Lambert


These lessens are a free resource to the expert guitar player who wishes to just get a certain amount of the rust off their style, all the way to the very novice guitar player who wants to start out practicing the basics flawlessly.

You will be able to acquire a great deal of lesson materials on this site. We will address the unique styles of Flatpicking Guitar and Fingerstyle Guitar.

Lessons for Flatpick Acoustic Guitar:
Flatpicking is a style that is common for the most part to Bluegrass guitar players. It is also known as plectrum picking. We will cover subjects like right and left hand location, how to position the pick, how to play efficiently and much more.

We will cover subjects like right and left hand positioning, how to place the pick, how to play efficiently and much more. Also the left hand will be covered from how to position the neck, position the fingers, and actually play the notes.

I know that learning the fundamentals can seem unnecessary, but believe me when I say, that if you do nothing else but master these fundamentals, you will be a much better guitar player.

Using the appropriate proficiency and being very dedicatied to a practice regimen are keys to becoming a really outstanding guitar player.

We will show you in extensive detail how to read TAB or tablature. TAB or tablature is the musician's shorthand for those of us who cannot read standard notation.

These talents are often beyond the level of the beginning guitar player, but by means of diligent practicing you will promptly master them.

Finally, we will consider the TAB from actual breaks of a few of the top flatpicking artist's such as Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Tony Rice and mant others. Use these secrets, and you will see your practicing will proceed at an amazing pace.

Acoustic Guitar Lessons - Fingerstyle Approach:
This guitar performance style has it's roots in the ragtime music era, whereby the guitar players of the period attempted to replicate the sound of ragtime piano pieces.

Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, Merle Travis and countless other fabulous fingerstyle guitar artist's took this style and put their own extraordinary spin on it.

Although it is a very challenging style of guitar performance, it does give a outstanding amount of satisfaction to the guitarist and the listener alike.

I recommend that you know your way around the flatpicking guitar style before you attempt to master fingerstyle guitar. It will make your transition into the fingerstyle technique much smoother.

By doing this we get most of the fundamentals out of the way such as left hand techniques, reading TAB, getting some reasonable speed going, and learning the ornamental techniques. You will also learn about the notes on the fretboard, playing in positions, and scales.

By starting out with fundamental strategies and exercises, you will gain self-confidence, which will propel you into more advanced lesson materials. Although the right hand proficiency will be our fundamental focus for fingerstyle, there will be subtle changes to the left hand approach that will be addressed as well.

Then we will take a few actual songs and examine them, pull them apart to consider how they are performed and give detailed practicing information which you can then go on to formulate your own style.

We will dissect sample breaks through a few of the most celebrated fingerstyle guitarists. We can profit from the understanding of these masters of fingerstyle guitar. By analyzing these arrangements and breaks, you can adjust them a bit to build your own unusual style. After all, if you can 'rip-off' a outstanding lick exactly how it was performed by means of Jerry Reed, that is very amazing indeed. But, why not interject your own techniques into this break to brand it uniquely your own style. We will teach you how to manage that.




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