Fingerstyle Encores picks up where AGW's first TrueFire course, 60-Day Fingerstyle Blues Camp, left off. Where the Blues Camp focused on technique and execution, Fingerstyle Encores focuses on building your repertoire of fingerstyle tunes and honing your skills across a variety of rags, blues and contemporary tunes.

And who better to guide your fingerstyle prowess than Rick Payne, widely recognized as one of the planet's top fingerstyle performers and arrangers. Often compared with Ry Cooder, slide and Fingerstyle guitar maestro Rick Payne’s performances have taken him to prime time TV, festivals and theatres throughout the world.

Fingerstyle Encores covers a healthy variety of rag, country blues and classic fingerstyle tunes and techniques. The 4-CD ROM course features 189 in-depth video lessons and leverages TrueFire's interactive player for both Windows and Mac with looping, zoom, speed and other useful controls. The course is presented in a PDF manual and includes Power Tab and standard notation for all material.

Fingerstyle Encores goes way beyond just laying out tunes and notation. Several of the arrangements are broken down into bite-size, in-depth video lessons focused on techniques and tricks-of-the-trade specific to the tune and style such as ... varying the arrangement, arpeggios, improving tone by using slides, sustain and vibrato, chord voicing tricks, bass note pedaling, single note runs for styling, alternative passing chords, turnarounds, minor to major arpeggios, minor 7 to minor 6 change, alternating bass, minor 7 chord movement, minor 9th inversion, diminished chord melody movements, minor inversions, bass inversions, varying your fingerstyle approach, Bossa rhythms, alternating bass, flat-pick riffs, chromatic licks and much more. In short, Fingerstyle Encores covers it all.