Learn how to play fingerstyle guitar - Essential techniques
Intermediate - advanced Online Guitar Course
“This Fingerstyle Survival Guide is a road map of sorts to discovering your own sound and style. I’m very excited to have this opportunity to pass along all of the essential techniques and concepts that I’ve learned from my own mentors, throughout my own studies. These key learnings have been instrumental in helping me become a more creative, better fingerstyle guitarist and I’m hopeful they will help guide your studies as well.”
In the first section of the Fingerstyle Survival Guide, Brooks presents and demonstrates 16 key concepts and techniques: Movable Chords: 6th & 5th String Root, Movable Chords: Top Four Strings, String Transference, Left Hand Dynamics & Decoration, 1/2 Step Slide Embellishments, Boom Chick: Alternating Thumb, Boom Chick: Patterns, Syncopated Picking Patterns, Banjo Rolls, Waltz Patterns, Skipping Patterns, Fingernail Click Patterns, Right Hand Dynamics & Tone Concept, Cascading Harp Harmonics and Cascading Harp Harmonics.
In the second section, Brooks shows you how apply all of the key concepts and techniques across 7 performance studies:
Keep It Movin’: Traditional country boom-chick sound in the key of E
Into The Trees: Jazzy, funky feel with fingernail clicks and banjo rolls
Waltz For One: Beautiful fingerstyle waltz in the key of C
Jessica Sue: Ballad with string skipping patterns and left hand inversions
Carol: More boom-chick with a tune in the key of A minor.
Jonesin’: Buster B. techniques with a flair of Jerry Reed in E minor.
Waking Up To Dream: Fingernail clicks, rolls and cascading harp harmonics
Showing an educator’s maturity way beyond his years, Brooks composed the performance studies to be extremely accessible for the intermediate player and still ear-pleasingly sophisticated enough to holds its own in anybody repertoire. Brooks first performs the studies and then breaks them down move-by-move with impeccable clarity and patience. You will also get tab and notation for all of the key examples and performance studies.
If you’re passionate about fingerstyle guitar, you will find Brooks’ Fingerstyle Survival Guide to be an indispensable companion on your learning journey.
