Fingerstyle Guitar
Fingerstyle guitar is the classic art of playing the guitar solely with the fingers. Fingerstyle playing opens up a whole new realm of possibilities on the guitar.
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Steve walks you through some of the most basic fingerstyle guitar techniques. He teaches these techniques in the context of timeless fingerstyle repertoire.
Lessons in this Series:
Lesson 1
Starting Fingerstyle
Steve introduces you to the world of fingerstyle guitar by teaching a few exercises and an orignal tune called "Porch Swingin'."
Length: 38:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Member Only
Matteo Carcassi
Steve Eulberg teaches you to play Op. 60 (No. 1) composed by Matteo Carcassi.
Length: 42:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Member Only
House of the Rising Sun
Steve teaches a fingerstyle arrangement of "House of the Rising Sun" by Animals.
Length: 29:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Member OnlyLesson 4
Freight Train
Steve covers some of the fingerstyle techniques created by Elizabeth, or "Libbis" Cotten.
Length: 24:00 Difficulty: 3.5 Free Sample Lesson
Planxton's Farewell Part 1
Steve Eulberg teaches you how to play his original piece "Planxton's Farewell." This is part 1 of a 2 part lesson.
Length: 34:00 Difficulty: 3.5 Member Only
Planxton's Farewell Part 2
This is part 2 of the fingerstyle song "Planxton's Farewell." In this lesson Steve teaches you the second half of this beautiful tune.
Length: 22:00 Difficulty: 3.5 Member Only
Drop D Tuning
Steve discusses drop D tuning and how it is used. He also teaches an original song in this tuning called "Neither Lion Nor Lamb."
Length: 30:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Member Only
Porch Swingin' Part 2
Steve Eulberg teaches the second half of his beautiful fingerstyle piece, "Porch Swingin'."
Length: 30:21 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Five Foot Two (fingerstyle)
Steve teaches a fingerstyle version of the classic song "Five Foot Two."
Length: 29:54 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Operator Introduction
In this lesson Steve shows how to play the introduction of the classic Jim Croce song, "Operator," in a fingerstyle fashion.
Length: 22:21 Difficulty: 3.0 Member Only
Operator Verse
Steve returns to the beautiful Jim Croce song, "Operator," in this fingerstyle guitar lesson. This time around he demonstrates the verse.
Length: 12:58 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Operator Chorus
Steve finishes up the Jim Croche song, "Operator." He covers the chorus and brings the entire song together.
Length: 9:55 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Alternating Bass
Steve uses the classic childrens song, "Paw Paw Patch" to demonstrate how an alternating bass line can be played within a fingerstyle arrangement.
Length: 15:42 Difficulty: 2.0 Member Only
We Wanted a King
Steve Eulberg teaches a beautiful fingerstyle arrangement of his original song, "We Wanted a King."
Length: 36:31 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Building the Thumb
Steve Eulberg guides you through a series of exercises meant to improve the dexterity and independence of the thumb.
Length: 12:52 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Mixing Up the Fingers
Steve Eulberg mixes up the fingers to create a dynamic fingerstyle exercise.
Length: 12:48 Difficulty: 2.0 Member Only
Chopsticks
Steve Eulberg explains how to play the classic song "Chopsticks" using fingerstyle technique.
Length: 12:18 Difficulty: 2.0 Member Only
Advanced Chopsticks
In this lesson, Steve Eulberg teaches an advanced version of "Chopsticks."
Length: 8:11 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Ode To Joy Part 1
Welcome to the first lesson in a 3 part series on the song "Ode To Joy". Steve has arranged a very unique fingerstyle lesson that starts from square one. This 3 part series can really help any beginner become more accomplished in technique. This first lesson, Steve will break down the melody...
Length: 10:32 Difficulty: 1.5 Member Only
Ode To Joy Part 2
In the midst of this three part lesson series, Steve continues his "Ode To Joy" song lesson by introducing a parallel movement. This will demonstrate a "skip a string" technique with the picking hand and parallel string movement with the fretting hand. Don't worry, It's not as complicated as...
Length: 7:25 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Ode To Joy Part 3
In his final lesson in the three part series of the song "Ode To Joy", Steve adds a few more additional fingerstyle techniques to the mix. By adding a harmony and a D string drone note, this will complete Steve's arrangement and open doors to the fingerstyle world.
Length: 10:43 Difficulty: 3.5 Member Only
Thumb Builder #1
In direct response to a common issue seen in his live Q&A, Steve crafted the following group of 9 lessons devoted to "thumb building". Learn all 6 variations of the exercise Steve teaches and practice them to start building up that thumb!
Length: 16:38 Difficulty: 2.0 Member Only
Thumb Builder #2
The second installment of Steve's Thumb Builder lessons continues to build your finger and thumb coordination with multiple pattern variations.
Length: 8:40 Difficulty: 2.0 Member Only
Thumb Builder #3
Join Steve for the third installment in his Thumb Builder lessons. Keep pressing on and you should be finding that the mechanical movements are becoming more and more natural.
Length: 10:33 Difficulty: 2.0 Member Only
Thumb Builder #4
It's time to challenge yourself by adding more fingers to the mix! Instead of just responding to the thumb with one finger, you'll be using different fingers on different strings.
Length: 8:42 Difficulty: 2.0 Member Only
Thumb Builder #5
Things are getting a little more complicated and a little more challenging as Steve marches through some more thumb building exercises. Keep up the hard work and practice!
Length: 6:42 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Thumb Builder #6
Steve continues to build up muscle memory and coordination. In these exercises, the thumb is gonna start jumping around along with the fingers.
Length: 9:16 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Thumb Builder #7
Part 7 of Thumb Building Bootcamp! Good job for making it this far! Things keep getting more challenging, but you should definitely be noticing a marked improvement in your finger-thumb coordination by now.
Length: 8:03 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Thumb Builder #8
Steve introduces a handful of new patterns to keep on building up that thumb.
Length: 7:53 Difficulty: 2.0 Member Only
Thumb Builder #9
Good work! You've made it to the final installment of thumb builder exercises. Learn some of the patterns that Steve commonly uses in his own playing.
Length: 6:48 Difficulty: 2.0 Member Only
Walkin' Down the Trail
Sometimes we hear the word exercise and it just sounds like work... That probably won't be the case when you listen to the exercise Steve teaches in this lesson. It will take some work, but you'll walk away a better player with another useful and fun song in the bag.
Length: 19:30 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Frere Jacque Fugue
In this lesson, Steve takes the familiar Frere Jacque and teaches how to play it in a round on the guitar.
Length: 6:28 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore
Turn this classic folk tune into a beautiful fingerstyle arrangement.
Length: 13:24 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
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