Publisher: Hal Leonard
Progressive Exercises & Patterns
In standard notation and tablature

Whether you're a beginner to the world of fingerstyle guitar or looking to improve your current abilities, you've come to the right place! In this book, you'll work through many progressive exercises designed to develop the specific skills and coordination necessary in the fingerstyle genre.

Every exercise is notated in standard notation and tablature and demonstrated on the accompanying videos at both normal and slow speeds. While this book mainly concentrates on the plucking hand, you'll be naturally increasing your fretting-hand prowess as well, since the nearly 200 fun, musical exercises make use of many different chord shapes.

The world of fingerstyle guitar will open many new avenues for musical expression. You'll gain the ability to play melodies and bass lines simultaneously, imitate the way a pianist plays chords, create intricate, flowing arpeggios, and much more. Most of all, you'll have a lot of fun learning these skills!