Hi - my name is Patrick and welcome to my course - guitar fingerpicking in 30 days. I have being fingerpicking guitar for 20 years and I have taught dozens of students to go from never having picked up a guitar before to being really accomplished players.

I notice that when many of my students learn fingerpicking and become competent, they become very musical in a short space of time. The acoustic guitar and modern acoustic fingerpicking style take the most incredible instrument and facilitate musicians to get incredible sounds from a small piece of wood with strings on it. Students do things that blow me away.

Some of the building blocks to becoming a modern acoustic fingerstyle musician with your own voice and your own sound are identified here and hopefully will help you to push through the common boundaries of having set chords, set patterns, set riffs and years of formed habits. It's time to really become inspired again. I'm absolutely confident that this will be your experience.

There are several main sections in this course

Advanced Rhythm and Polyrhythms

A deep dive into a classic Windy & Warm popularised by Chet Atkins and the techniques that drive the song

A deep dive into a classic Deep River Blues by Doc Watson and the techniques that drive the song

Advanced Techniques

Harmonizing scales

Adding percussive elements

Using alternate tunings

Blending everything we have learned

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