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Modern Fingerstyle Foundations
Learn How To Play Modern Fingerstyle Guitar
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About this course
Learning how to enrich the polyphonic qualities of fingerstyle with string slaps, body percussion, tapping, harmonics, and many other “modern” techniques can seem like a daunting task at first.
Andy McKee’s Modern Fingerstyle Foundations presents a tried and true approach to breaking down modern fingerstyle techniques into smaller, more manageable parts so you can focus on a particular aspect or approach.
”I was inspired to learn how to play modern fingerstyle by many of its pioneers — Preston Reed, Michael Hedges, Billy McLaughlin and Don Ross in particular. At first, it seemed almost impossible to incorporate percussive techniques like string slaps and body percussion, alternate and open tunings, tapping, and harmonics all while holding down the bass, rhythm and melody parts.
But once I broke it down into smaller parts and took it one section at a time, it all started coming together for me. And it's that approach that this course is designed to pass on to you.
You’ll play through 20 individual “modern fingerstyle” etudes, each etude focuses on a key building block of modern fingerstyle. The etudes will help you develop command of alternating bass, right-hand fingerpicking patterns, tapping, harmonics, using open tunings for lush harmony, body percussion, and other components that comprise modern fingerstyle guitar.
You’ll have fun learning these fundamental techniques by playing them in a musical context, rather than working through tedious exercises. As you work through the series of etudes, I’ll also show you how to connect the individual techniques and play through four of my original songs.”
Andy will explain, demonstrate and break down all of the key concepts and approaches in play. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies.
Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s dig in with Andy McKee!
Andy McKee’s Modern Fingerstyle Foundations presents a tried and true approach to breaking down modern fingerstyle techniques into smaller, more manageable parts so you can focus on a particular aspect or approach.
”I was inspired to learn how to play modern fingerstyle by many of its pioneers — Preston Reed, Michael Hedges, Billy McLaughlin and Don Ross in particular. At first, it seemed almost impossible to incorporate percussive techniques like string slaps and body percussion, alternate and open tunings, tapping, and harmonics all while holding down the bass, rhythm and melody parts.
But once I broke it down into smaller parts and took it one section at a time, it all started coming together for me. And it's that approach that this course is designed to pass on to you.
You’ll play through 20 individual “modern fingerstyle” etudes, each etude focuses on a key building block of modern fingerstyle. The etudes will help you develop command of alternating bass, right-hand fingerpicking patterns, tapping, harmonics, using open tunings for lush harmony, body percussion, and other components that comprise modern fingerstyle guitar.
You’ll have fun learning these fundamental techniques by playing them in a musical context, rather than working through tedious exercises. As you work through the series of etudes, I’ll also show you how to connect the individual techniques and play through four of my original songs.”
Andy will explain, demonstrate and break down all of the key concepts and approaches in play. You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance studies.
Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.
Grab your guitar and let’s dig in with Andy McKee!
What you'll learn
- Play four original songs incorporating modern fingerstyle techniques
- Connect individual techniques into complete musical pieces
- Learn to interpret and personalize arrangements over time
- Learn to break down complex techniques into manageable parts
- Develop command of key modern fingerstyle techniques through musical etudes
Release date: 02/01/2022 • 2h 22m runtime
Sample lessons
Syncopated Partial Chords
Etude 2: Common Ground
Percussive Palm & Up Strums
Etude 7: Common Ground
Natural Harmonics Workout
Etude 2: All Laid Back and Stuff
Melodic Open String Pull-offs
Etude 1: She
What's included
26 lessons • 24 charts
Modern Fingerstyle Foundations
Hi I’m Andy McKee. Welcome to Modern Fingerstyle Foundations.
I was inspired to learn how to play modern fingerstyle by its pioneers — Preston Reed, Michael Hedges, Billy McLaughlin and Don Ross in particular.
Learning how to enrich the polyphonic qualities of fingerstyle with string slaps, body percussion, tapping, harmonics and many other “modern” techniques can seem like a daunting task at first.
But, like any style of music, if you break it down into smaller, more manageable parts, and focus on a particular aspect or approach — it all comes together much quicker than you would imagine.
In this course, we’ll focus on 20 individual “modern fingerstyle” etudes. You’ll have fun learning and playing them in a musical context, rather than working through tedious exercises.
Using TrueFire’s learning tools, you’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos to learn at your own pace. Even the tab and notation is synced to the video!
The etudes will help you develop command of key techniques including alternating bass, right-hand fingerpicking patterns, tapping, harmonics, using open tunings for lush harmony, body percussion, and other components that comprise modern fingerstyle guitar.
As you work through the etudes, I’ll also show you how to connect a variety of the individual techniques and play through 4 of my original songs.
Grab your guitar and let's dig in!
I was inspired to learn how to play modern fingerstyle by its pioneers — Preston Reed, Michael Hedges, Billy McLaughlin and Don Ross in particular.
Learning how to enrich the polyphonic qualities of fingerstyle with string slaps, body percussion, tapping, harmonics and many other “modern” techniques can seem like a daunting task at first.
But, like any style of music, if you break it down into smaller, more manageable parts, and focus on a particular aspect or approach — it all comes together much quicker than you would imagine.
In this course, we’ll focus on 20 individual “modern fingerstyle” etudes. You’ll have fun learning and playing them in a musical context, rather than working through tedious exercises.
Using TrueFire’s learning tools, you’ll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos to learn at your own pace. Even the tab and notation is synced to the video!
The etudes will help you develop command of key techniques including alternating bass, right-hand fingerpicking patterns, tapping, harmonics, using open tunings for lush harmony, body percussion, and other components that comprise modern fingerstyle guitar.
As you work through the etudes, I’ll also show you how to connect a variety of the individual techniques and play through 4 of my original songs.
Grab your guitar and let's dig in!
Alternating Bass & Triplets
In this series of lessons I will be breaking down piece by piece all seven Etudes of my tune Common Ground. I will start things off with a short performance of the section of the song I am covering then I will get into the details of how to correctly play the tune. Once we've covered all 7 Etudes, we will wrap everything up with a full song performance of my tune Common Ground.
Syncopated Partial Chords
In this series of lessons I will be breaking down piece by piece all seven Etudes of my tune Common Ground. I will start things off with a short performance of the section of the song I am covering then I will get into the details of how to correctly play the tune. Once we've covered all 7 Etudes, we will wrap everything up with a full song performance of my tune Common Ground.
Movement in the Bassline
In this series of lessons I will be breaking down piece by piece all seven Etudes of my tune Common Ground. I will start things off with a short performance of the section of the song I am covering then I will get into the details of how to correctly play the tune. Once we've covered all 7 Etudes, we will wrap everything up with a full song performance of my tune Common Ground.
Rolling Melodic Lines
In this series of lessons I will be breaking down piece by piece all seven Etudes of my tune Common Ground. I will start things off with a short performance of the section of the song I am covering then I will get into the details of how to correctly play the tune. Once we've covered all 7 Etudes, we will wrap everything up with a full song performance of my tune Common Ground.
More Rolling Melody
In this series of lessons I will be breaking down piece by piece all seven Etudes of my tune Common Ground. I will start things off with a short performance of the section of the song I am covering then I will get into the details of how to correctly play the tune. Once we've covered all 7 Etudes, we will wrap everything up with a full song performance of my tune Common Ground.
Repeated Arpeggio Figures
In this series of lessons I will be breaking down piece by piece all seven Etudes of my tune Common Ground. I will start things off with a short performance of the section of the song I am covering then I will get into the details of how to correctly play the tune. Once we've covered all 7 Etudes, we will wrap everything up with a full song performance of my tune Common Ground.
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Reviews
7 results
Stephen B.
01/07/23
My favourite course on truefire
The best laid out course I've found on here so far, with sections of tunes broken down into individual etudes, giving the students an understanding of the underlying technique in bitesized pieces and before you know it, you've full Andy McKee tunes under your fingers, perfect for any fingerstyle guitarist looking to expand their playing into the modern fingerstyle world. I can't recommend this course highly enough
bivio
Verified buyer
12/07/22
Great video and lesson. A lot of things to learn from him
tomnottom
Verified buyer
07/31/22
Finger style with a master
You do feel like Andy is sitting in front of you and genuinely cares you are learning the material.
wojtop6
Verified buyer
06/15/22
One of my favourite fingerstyle guitarists :)
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