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!
Begin the CourseMarcelo welcomes you to his Fingerstyle Guitar series.
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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!
17:21 Runtime
1.5 Difficulty
Taking each of the fingerstyle steps, Marcelo now puts them into a 12 bar etude to get the most out of your practice time!
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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.
15:20 Runtime
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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!
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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!
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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.
14:28 Runtime
2.5 Difficulty
This is a great exercise that will train you to use only certain fingers on your fingerpicking hand.
7:40 Runtime
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Marcelo now teaches us his original fingerstyle arrangement of the classic Scott Joplin song, "Solace".
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3.5 Difficulty
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!
12:45 Runtime
2.0 Difficulty
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