Fingerstyle training – Descending Arpeggio

This pattern is a great-sounding Travis picking pattern which you can integrate with other patterns to produce really nice arrangements. The right hand fingers are written in for you. Walk through each chord first individually if you have not played this pattern before.

Once you have done this, try applying this pattern to other chord…

Song skills training

This training material helps you to get used to an optimal, reliable system for working on any material you want to be able to play confidently. Any piece of music requires us to have different skills working at the same time to perform it fluently, and knowing how to train each of these skill areas…

Rhythm guitar techniques: bass note picking

This lesson covers a very effective way of playing chords where you split the sound between the lower and higher notes in each chord. This creates a sense of two types of sound combining, and it has a different character to playing all of the strings at once. You can create very propulsive and driving,…

Chordal picking

This material will develop your right hand technique so that you have some expressive ways of playing chords that showcase the resonant sound of the guitar. When you have worked in this area, you’ll be able to devise your own great-sounding ways of picking chord progressions, and you’ll find it easier to play songs that…