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Am always gobsmacked on documentaries upon hearing how people just learned by listening to records. I guess things shone brighter back then without this avalanche of media to sift through. I can see how inspiring that would be. |
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Also, aside from not needing to feel the accomplishment of a specific song under my belt, I am doing all you are advising. |
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But I totally agree that a block of feedback and sage advice would be invaluable. I will try in the future if finances allow. |
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I actually took a local community college course which used the Mark Hanson book. I really learned by using a app with back tracks and playing real slow like 40 bpm, then speeding it up as I got the slower speed down. I got to the point where I played most of my songs using the triple bass pinch pattern. However the song Freight Train in the book was my kryptonite. Just couldn't master using the pinky to play the melody notes because of misplacement because of lack of pinky control or because I have small hands muting other strings with the other fingers when I attempted to use the pinky i.e. fingering the G7 chord where your fingers are pretty spread out and then using your pinky on the high E string. Finally went back 2 weeks ago, and was determined to master it. Started off just focusing on clean finger sounds on the parts that gave me trouble. I got it to where I can play it slow fairly well. I will keep at that speed and slowly increase it. I guess it was the development of the pinky in my playing that allowed to come back and tackle this song again.
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I signed up for Adam Rafferty's Udemy as an intro. Six String Fingerpicking is also intriguing. I also bought the Berklee books in kindle form b/c I want to not rely on tabs. Thank you everyone for your help!!! |
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Besides the guitar, any other materials (i.e. books, lessons, etc.) are all as optional as you want or need them to be. No matter what, you would always have that guitar to play. Also, with that Adam Rafferty course, there is a section on how to arrange your favorite tunes for fingerstyle guitar. He uses "Silent Night" and goes through it in detail SLOWLY and step by step. You then can apply those same steps to any other tune you wish to arrange, so you are not stuck with having to have TAB that somebody else arranged and with songs that somebody else arranged instead of being able to choose what interests you. The Six String Fingerpicking guy also has a whole course on arranging if you should ever feel the need for more. He splits up his courses into several so you don't have to buy one big course. He also has course bundles to save money. A beginner fingerpicking course An intermediate fingerpicking course An advanced fingerpicking course An arranging course ...and a couple of others that may or may not be of interest. However, the Adam Rafferty course may be all you need. If nothing else, you will have a solid foundation from which to tackle anything else that interests you. Tony
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I don't know about Anderson, but what could Hanson give you in an hour that you can't get from his book? He could certainly assess your technique usefully, but so could a much cheaper teacher. I know that great teachers are inspiring (beyond the actual time they give you), so that the best are worth paying extra. But $100 seems excessive to me.
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A good teacher can provide great help in developing the proper technique and also feedback. Yes, you can learn this stuff on your own, but a good teacher is worth it if you can afford it. Also you can buy lessons from Muriel Anderson and others on Truefire for a one time fairly inexpensive fee. As a beginner, I would read https://www.amazon.com/Laws-Brainjo-.../dp/B085GBG23P, an inexpensive read from Amazon. The book has a lot of good advice for beginners.
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Any of us can benefit from an inspiring teacher but for the actual teaching and feedback part, a total beginner simply needs a competent and experienced teacher. Not one who is well known for their performing or as the author of popular pedagogical content. I suspect at least 30-40% of that $100/hour rate is due to those factors.
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I think you have gotten every possible answer, and then some!
Less is more. I have lots of materials I never really cracked. I started from scratch with Mark Hanson's Intro to Travis Picking book. After about 7 months I started taking lessons, and still do with the same teacher almost 5 years later. $25/half hour which is all I can absorb at a time, every week. I got lucky. These 2 resources have meant more for me than all of the others combined.
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Stop.
Before anyone jumps into fingerstyle as beginner there is a certain amount of fretboard common sense that comes from learning to play chords and being able to play them with little effort. There is a ton of muscle memory (and dexterity) that gets acquired from the "cowboy" chords and later on from moveable barre chords. Yes, someone can learn right hand technique from the start, but to really free the right hand to learn fingerstyle, the left hand has to be on autopilot - and that comes from a firm foundation of chord playing. If someone can't play 4 or 5 chords in a simple 100 bpm strumming tune without making mistakes and hesitating, spending time learning right hand finger style technique is a bit of putting the cart before the horse. To play finger style so that it is pleasant for others to listen to takes a lot of work even on slow pieces.
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