Skip to 5:28 if you're watching the recording and want to skip my introductory conversation with students and go straight to the beginning of the lesson. Most people fret notes on the guitar fundamentally wrong. In this lesson, you'll learn how to fret notes effortlessly using the weight of your arm rather than squeezing between your thumb and fingers. 30 min - The Technique & Practice Tips 30 min - "Piece Of The Week" Tutorial 30 min - Q&A
Timestamps: 6:06 - Lesson 1:10:02 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial 1:29:22 - Q&A Your scale technique will make or break your ability to play beautiful fluid melodies. In this lesson, you'll learn what to focus on in your scale practice to maximize your speed and fluidity. And best of all, like with all the lessons in this program, you'll be practicing these concepts with a beautiful piece of music instead of repetitive boring scales. 30 min - The Technique & Practice Tips 30 min - "Piece Of The Week" Tutorial 30 min - Q&A
Timestamps: 5:35 - Lesson 38:52 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial 1:12:03 - Q&A Hammer-On's & Pull-Off's (aka "slurs") are another huge element of melodic playing. In this lesson you'll learn how to make your hammer-on's punchy and your pull-off's snappy - all with minimal effort. 30 min - The Technique & Practice Tips 30 min - "Piece Of The Week" Tutorial 30 min - Q&A
Timestamps: 3:40 - Lesson 50:12 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial 1:11:10 - Q&A All the technique in the world is useless if you can't bring out a beautiful tone from you guitar. In this lesson you'll learn how to get a warm, full, and rich tone out of your plucking hand. 30 min - The Technique & Practice Tips 30 min - "Piece Of The Week" Tutorial 30 min - Q&A
Timestamps: 5:35 - Lesson 49:08 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial 1:08:48 - Q&A Nearly every fingerstyle or classical guitar piece of music will feature some sort of arpeggio - so mastery of this technique is crucial. In this lesson, you'll be developing the speed, accuracy, and flexibility in your plucking hand to be prepared for any arpeggio pattern a song might throw at you. 30 min - The Technique & Practice Tips 30 min - "Piece Of The Week" Tutorial 30 min - Q&A
Timestamps: 4:55 - Lesson 40:40 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial 1:03:26 - Q&A Bar Chords (or the "barre") are the bane of so many guitarists' existence! When done wrong, they cause wrist and thumb pain and can completely ruin your enjoyment of playing a given song. In this lesson you'll learn how to leverage weight and efficient force distribution so you never feel pain or dread related to the barre again! 30 min - The Technique & Practice Tips 30 min - "Piece Of The Week" Tutorial 30 min - Q&A
Timestamps: 4:26 - Lesson 37:28 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial 1:04:30 - Q&A Their ethereal bell-like sound makes harmonics one of the most unique and beautiful techniques in fingerstyle guitar playing. In this lesson, you'll learn to master both "natural" and "artificial" harmonics.
Timestamps: 5:18 - Lesson 46:02 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial 1:07:21 - Q&A We've all had that experience learning a song and reaching a point where we wonder "How on earth are my fingers supposed to reach those notes??" Fingerstyle guitar playing, by nature, requires us to hold chords while reaching for melody notes simultaneously - which sometimes requires some pretty massive stretches. In this lesson, you'll learn the techniques and practice tools you need to drastically improve the flexibility of your fretting hand so you can finally reach those crazy stretches you always thought were impossible. 30 min - The Technique & Practice Tips 30 min - "Piece Of The Week" Tutorial 30 min - Q&A
Timestamps: 7:06 - Lesson 47:19 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial 1:21:33 - Q&A Have you ever felt like you have zero control over your fingers? Where you want them to do one thing, but they always do something else. Or seem completely frozen altogether? This is an issue of finger independence, where your fingers want to stay near each other and struggle to move in opposing directions. This is a sneaky issue that every guitarist faces because it's tied directly to the anatomy of our hand. In this lesson, you'll learn how to develop control over each of your fingers so you can move them independently of one another to accommodate any chord shape or position you require. 30 min - The Technique & Practice Tips 30 min - "Piece Of The Week" Tutorial 30 min - Q&A
Timestamps: 3:53 - Lesson 37:01 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial 1:03:04 - Q&A Vibrato allows you to continue to control and manipulate the sound of a note after you've already plucked it. It gives character to each note and breathes life into your melodies, giving them a more "vocal" quality. In this lesson, you'll learn to add your own personality and signature sound to your playing by mastering vibrato. 30 min - The Technique & Practice Tips 30 min - "Piece Of The Week" Tutorial 30 min - Q&A
Timestamps: 4:25 - Lesson 40:44 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial 1:08:25 - Q&A Survey: https://forms.gle/nMhfnnNnSjVkN5CU9 Beginners and Intermediate players alike often struggle to jump smoothly from one chord to the next without everything sounding disconnected and choppy. In this lesson you'll learn the practice tools and strategies that will empower you to navigate every chord transition smoothly and seamlessly - so that it both sounds and feels effortless. 30 min - The Technique & Practice Tips 30 min - "Piece Of The Week" Tutorial 30 min - Q&A
Timestamps: 6:06 - Lesson 37:22 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial 1:18:39 - Q&A Survey: https://forms.gle/nMhfnnNnSjVkN5CU9 Not all notes are created equal! Most fingerstyle guitarists play their bass notes and harmonies just as loud as their melodies. This makes your playing sound flat and, frankly, like just a bunch of notes. In this lesson you'll learn how to play with dynamics, playing your melodies louder than the rest - giving dimension and depth to your playing and creating that sought-after illusion in fingerstyle guitar that you're hearing multiple guitars, when it's really just you! 30 min - The Technique & Practice Tips 30 min - "Piece Of The Week" Tutorial 30 min - Q&A
Timestamps: 5:56 - Lesson 21:28 - The Beyond The Guitar "Practice Club" -Join the Practice Club before doors close on Friday April 29th at midnight: https://www.beyondtheguitar.com/practiceclub 28:30 - "Piece of the Week" Tutorial