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Introduction to Fingerpicking

Instructor: Rick Graham
Topic: Technique
Style: Acoustic
Level: Beginner
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    Introduction to Fingerpicking Rick Graham
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    Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Acoustic

    Excerpt: Welcome to an Introduction to Fingerstyle! Fingerstyle is a technique that is beneficial to us in many ways. With this technique we are able to achieve a much more pianistic way of playing; that is, the ability to play seperate lines all at once. I think it was the French composer Claude Debussy that said "the guitar is an orchestra contained within one ins...

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    Introduction to Fingerpicking - Fingerpicking in Practice Rick Graham
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    Instructor: Rick Graham Level: Beginner Topic: Technique Style: Acoustic

    Excerpt: Let's get started with our first piece in fingerstyle! This piece is a chord sequence taken from the famous composition written by Johann Pachelbel called Canon in D. It is an ideal progression to enable you to work on the syncronisation of the left and right hands as it is essential that they work in perfect harmony with one another. As always, ensure a sl...

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