Fingerstyle Guitar
Marcelo Berestovoy returns to JamPlay with his Fingerstyle Guitar series. Learn the style of the greats like Merle Travis and Chet Atkins with Marcelo's one step at a time method.
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Learn fingerstyle guitar with Marcelo Berestovoy! Marcelo uses his one step at a time method to take you from novice to expert in no time!
Lessons in this Series:
Lesson 1
Series Introduction
Marcelo welcomes you to his Fingerstyle Guitar series.
Length: 5:13 Difficulty: 0.0 Member Only
Fingerstyle One Step at a Time
In this lesson, Marcelo teaches us the foundation of his whole fingerstyle series. Learn each step to the classic Travis-style picking pattern, and before you know it, you will be sounding like a pro!
Length: 17:21 Difficulty: 1.5 Member Only
12 Bar Fingerpicking Etude
Taking each of the fingerstyle steps, Marcelo now puts them into a 12 bar etude to get the most out of your practice time!
Length: 6:51 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Fingerpicking Different Chord Shapes
So far, Marcelo has had you concentrate on fingerpicking over the same shapes of chords. Now, he's going to show you how to take what you know, and apply it over many different chord shapes.
Length: 15:20 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Fingerpicking with Melody
Now that you've got a good grasp of the fingerpicking pattern over chords, it's time to add a melody line on top of the progression!
Length: 13:03 Difficulty: 3.0 Member Only
The Sheik of Araby - Fingerpicking Lesson
Marcelo has played this stellar original arrangement of the standard tune, "The Sheik of Araby" for years. Now, here he is to teach you his version, incorporating the fingerstyle techniques you've already learned in this series!
Length: 18:12 Difficulty: 3.0 Member Only
Reverse Arpeggios
Fingerpicking arpeggios in a forward manner is a natural motion for most of us. In this lesson, Marcelo takes on the less comfortable motion of playing arpeggios in the reverse motion.
Length: 14:28 Difficulty: 2.5 Member Only
Horizontal Intervals Etude
This is a great exercise that will train you to use only certain fingers on your fingerpicking hand.
Length: 7:40 Difficulty: 3.0 Member Only
Song Lesson - Solace
Marcelo now teaches us his original fingerstyle arrangement of the classic Scott Joplin song, "Solace".
Length: 22:24 Difficulty: 3.5 Member Only
Right Hand Technique
What is the difference between free strokes and rest strokes? Marcelo teaches a great lesson here on the difference between the two and focuses on how to get the most out of the rest stroke technique!
Length: 12:45 Difficulty: 2.0 Member Only
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