David, I have to say that the new quarterly focus on improvisation fundamentals in the FS5 membership is right on the money for me. I have been a member since April 2020 when the first song I struggled with was Baby Please Don't Go and, guess what, I still can't play it without the tab primarily because each monthly song after that took over my practice time. My renewed focus now is to work on the improv fundamentals material while also focusing on the five 8-bar blues that you recently recommended we should know. My goal for the first quarter of 2023 is to be able to play arrangements of Trouble In Mind and You Got To Move without the need to look at any tab. Thank you for creating the best online forum for learning guitar and continuing to enhance and develop it. To anyone reading this, if you aren't already a member of FS5 do yourself a favour and sign up - it's an investment in quality.

Another tremendous lesson. For me, right-hand coordination was the most difficult part of learning fingerstyle at first even though I had been fingerpicking for 50 years. If you follow these exercises as slowly as you need, you'll be well on your way to playing fingerstyle. It's soooooooooooooo much fun to be able to learn and play this style thanks to David. I HIGHLY recommend David's Fingerstyle Five membership. I joined over 2 years ago. He's a world-class player and world-class teacher. Give him a try. You'll thank me later.

Being a member of the Fingerstyle Five keeps my head in the blues where I want it to be. Highly recommended

One of the best lessons in the out of of the hundreds I've seen. Brilliant teacher

Hi, obviously I'm late to the party but just found this and joined Fingerstyle Five. This is the best lesson I have ever tried to follow. Just perfect! thank you

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I like David saying “So”. That means that something really exciting is on the way 😊

Hi David , Rex Australia here ... I have been a FS5 member now for 18 months (ish) I think and i concur with Dave H below comment. For me, and mine at the wrong side of 65 years young, a slow down and consolidate approach you are going to adopt for 2023 ( ie: a three month song, with associated technique, cycle) is just what the doctor ordered PS ... love your missives, your brain and mine think alike wish I could write as well! ...cheers from Downunder

Wow. You start out zeroing in on exactly what I really suck at. Then you give the perfect exercises to work on my skill deficiency. Excuse me, I need to go practice getting my right hand on the team. Thank you.

In addition to finger style blues, I also study jazz guitar with a personal instructor who gave me 28 different two-bar syncopated rhythms to strum on one string. I suggest that you may need to start the second string part of your exercise in isolation (without the thumb) to nail the various syncopated rhythms down solid before adding the thumb in. Some of the trickier syncopated rhythms are, well, tricky. Isolating them (and tapping your foot!) will GREATLY improve your technique in a week or two of consistent practice.

Thanks for sharing the great exercise and your insights.

This is one of the most helpful videos I've seen. Thank you

I agree 💯. Struggling with this. I had a bad habit of just finger picking with my thumb and index. Unlearning that bad habit and development of what you are teaching taking time. But, I watch players whom persevere like yourself and looking forward to being able to make music

Thank you Much appreciated ✌️💜🎸🎼🎶🎵

Great lesson there Hamburger, hope you are well.....been a long time, love your channel , best regards - Dave Aronson from Walden high school 😮

Awesome, I can't wait to try this later. I've been noodling around for the past 2 years, trying to find direction. Thanks for posting; as a newbie, it's difficult to know where to start.

Very helpful. Ty.

About 4 years ago after playing guitar for close to 15 years or so i decided to start getting serious about fingerstyle playing. I always new it was what i was missing and needed to express myself the way i wanted to on our instrument. But the reason i hadnt really delved into fingerstyle more seriously and improved was cause growing up i didnt listen to a lot of fingerstyle music that i loved except for Doug Martsch's "Now you know" album and that was beyond me at the time. Fast forward to about four years ago and i started getting really into Elliott Smith (after years of being a fan but not really realizing just how much of a fan i was lol). So I decided i wanted to learn to play and sing a lot of his songs. The main one that i was really drawn to learning was "Angeles", so despite it being way outside what i was capable of at the time I started putting in the effort to learn to play it. Learning how I was SUPPOSED to play it was easy since i pick up most songs quickly after playing this long and I can identify the right and wrong ways its been transcribed. But actually playing it was really difficult and took me around 6 months to get it to the point where i was comfortable not only playing it but singing it for people. It has an alternating thumb pattern thats really slick in my opinion. The thumbs rhythm notes fit right where they fit and NOWHERE else lol. So you have to really get the feel just right and accent the thumb on each bass note. So point of the story is if you want to learn anything on any instrument no matter what the technique involved then you should find a song or an artist that you really like (that does that technique) and set out to learn their music. Youre going to be playing that song A LOT. So if you dont really care for the song the motivation will fade. Then once you've developed the technique you can learn other songs that use that technique even if its not a song you love because the amount of time youll need to get it down will be much less. Anyways, just my take on learning new techniques. Or i guess more specifically my take on finding adequate motivation to learn a new technique.

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Great lesson! I'm going to need to take some time on this one. I started fingerpicking back around '67 or so, and at this point my alternate thumb and fingers are so locked in that I'm really having trouble breaking free for guitar parts that aren't strictly locked in.

I have a feeling this will be a popular one.

Great exercise! One right-hand nuance that I had difficulty with was the subtle muting of the bass line. Using the palm to mute the bass strings becomes more difficult as you progress from the E string through to the D string, while allowing the treble strings to ring without muting them as well. I noticed sometimes your D string continued to ring, sometimes you muted it with the picking thumb. Best regards and thank you..

To address the question of proving it, Django Reinhardt provides a pretty amazing example of the primacy of right hand coordination in guitar work.

I'm working on the thumb independence with a beat

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What year is that guitar? I have a 1963 00-18 myself that I was given as a boy & I'm 45 now. Been playing it all of my life & it is always the best sounding acoustic guitar that I have ever played, but I am partial to it. lol I've never brought it out of the house into the public without someone offering to purchase it, but it's like a family member to me. Especially after all these years of playing it. When you become intimate with your instrument on that level. There is nothing like it & I can find no way to describe it. I'm just curious b/c your guitar reminds me a lot of mine.

Is there a tab for this please, I'm struggling to follow it, I need a visual to help me. Thanks in advance.

Can I ask what guitar you used on your album "Beautiful Scar?" Somehow it doesn't sound like the old faithful Martin, especially the top three strings.

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Hey George! You certainly can :-). It's my 2002 Collings 00-2H. Good ears!