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Progressive Fingerstyle: Essential Riffs
Learn How Play Rhythm, Harmony, Percussion and Melody Simultaneously
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About this course
Ready to put all 10 fingers to work and unleash the powerful polyphonic wonders of your acoustic guitar? Buckle-up, dig in and fast-forward your fingerstyle chops with this Essential Riffs edition of Progressive Fingerstyle from progressive fingerstyle master, Mike Dawes!
”Playing, rhythm, harmony, percussion and melody simultaneously unleashes infinite creative and musical possibilities. That’s why I’m exited too share my first-ever progressive fingerstyle riff collection! I’ve cherry-picked 10 of my own favorite and most versatile passages for you. We’ll use them as the framework for the performance studios in this course — use them as presented or better yet — tweak and make them your own!
Although these riffs fall under the progressive fingerstyle umbrella, they draw influence from a variety of genres; Rock, Pop, Celtic, New Age – all playable with my progressive fingerstyle toolkit, and all designed to to diversify and enhance your fingerstyle skillset.
I’ll demonstrate each performance study and then break them down in immense detail. With TrueFire’s learning tools, the tab and notation is synced to the video. You can slow or loop any section to practice along with me and work it up to tempo.”
In Progressive Fingerstyle: Essential Riffs: Self-accompaniment • Finger independence • Side slaps • Hammered harmonics • Tapping chords • Polymetrics • Emulating kick and snare • Bass and melody at once • Alternate tunings • Staccato meets legato • and more!
You’ll have all of TrueFire’s advanced learning tools at your finger tips to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
You can loop, slow down, or speed up any section of a lesson. Plus, all of the tab and notation is synced to the videos for the optimal learning experience. You’ll also get tab and standard notation files to print out, Guitar Pro files, and all of the backing tracks to practice with.
Time to ditch the pick and dig deep with Mike Dawes!
P.S. Eager to “ditch the pick” and join us in the polyphonic wonder world of Progressive Fingerstyle? Pick up Mike’s First Steps edition of Progressive Fingerstyle? Mike will get you up and running more quickly than you would ever imagine!
”Playing, rhythm, harmony, percussion and melody simultaneously unleashes infinite creative and musical possibilities. That’s why I’m exited too share my first-ever progressive fingerstyle riff collection! I’ve cherry-picked 10 of my own favorite and most versatile passages for you. We’ll use them as the framework for the performance studios in this course — use them as presented or better yet — tweak and make them your own!
Although these riffs fall under the progressive fingerstyle umbrella, they draw influence from a variety of genres; Rock, Pop, Celtic, New Age – all playable with my progressive fingerstyle toolkit, and all designed to to diversify and enhance your fingerstyle skillset.
I’ll demonstrate each performance study and then break them down in immense detail. With TrueFire’s learning tools, the tab and notation is synced to the video. You can slow or loop any section to practice along with me and work it up to tempo.”
In Progressive Fingerstyle: Essential Riffs: Self-accompaniment • Finger independence • Side slaps • Hammered harmonics • Tapping chords • Polymetrics • Emulating kick and snare • Bass and melody at once • Alternate tunings • Staccato meets legato • and more!
You’ll have all of TrueFire’s advanced learning tools at your finger tips to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
You can loop, slow down, or speed up any section of a lesson. Plus, all of the tab and notation is synced to the videos for the optimal learning experience. You’ll also get tab and standard notation files to print out, Guitar Pro files, and all of the backing tracks to practice with.
Time to ditch the pick and dig deep with Mike Dawes!
P.S. Eager to “ditch the pick” and join us in the polyphonic wonder world of Progressive Fingerstyle? Pick up Mike’s First Steps edition of Progressive Fingerstyle? Mike will get you up and running more quickly than you would ever imagine!
What you'll learn
- Play a complete Celtic jig section in DADGAD tuning
- Create complex textures combining melody, harmony, rhythm, and percussion on solo acoustic guitar
- Integrate percussive elements (fingernail flicks, thumb slaps, knuckle hits) into melodic playing
- Adapt percussive techniques for seated vs. standing performance
- Develop pinky picking technique for specific musical situations
Release date: 10/11/2022 • 1h 57m runtime
Sample lessons
Rhythm Overload
Performance
Cloud Catcher
Overview
Cloud Catcher
Performance
Cloud Catcher
Breakdown
What's included
33 lessons • 10 charts
Progressive Fingerstyle: Essential Riffs
Hi, I’m Mike Dawes. Welcome to Progressive Fingerstyle, First Steps.
As a progressive rock player I was ultimately drawn to the acoustic guitar due to its vast potential for polyphony and self accompaniment.
For the next 15 years, I combined my influences to produce a variety of tones, textures and percussive effects on a single acoustic guitar.
In this course, we’ll start by ditching the pick and expanding your instrument’s potential through the use of right hand techniques, alternate tunings, harmonics, legato and staccato fluidity, body percussion and more.
This method accurately mirrors my own journey as a player, cutting out years of trial and error to deliver you results as efficiently as possible.
Everything is tabbed and synced to the video. You can slow down or loop any of the video lessons to learn at your own pace.
I invite guitar players of all abilities to try something new and join me on this progressive fingerstyle journey. It begins here.
As a progressive rock player I was ultimately drawn to the acoustic guitar due to its vast potential for polyphony and self accompaniment.
For the next 15 years, I combined my influences to produce a variety of tones, textures and percussive effects on a single acoustic guitar.
In this course, we’ll start by ditching the pick and expanding your instrument’s potential through the use of right hand techniques, alternate tunings, harmonics, legato and staccato fluidity, body percussion and more.
This method accurately mirrors my own journey as a player, cutting out years of trial and error to deliver you results as efficiently as possible.
Everything is tabbed and synced to the video. You can slow down or loop any of the video lessons to learn at your own pace.
I invite guitar players of all abilities to try something new and join me on this progressive fingerstyle journey. It begins here.
Preface to the Course
Before we begin I'd like to highlight the importance of intention behind these essential riffs.
Boogie Mid-Section
This first riff is one I wrote when I was 17. This is a great riff to help synchronize your hands in an ergonomic way.
Boogie Mid-Section
This first riff is one I wrote when I was 17. This is a great riff to help synchronize your hands in an ergonomic way.
Boogie Mid-Section
This first riff is one I wrote when I was 17. This is a great riff to help synchronize your hands in an ergonomic way.
Rhythm Overload
What makes this riff unique is that I started writing the rhythm first instead of starting with a melody. This will be a great exercise in filling in the spaces between notes with percussive elements.
Rhythm Overload
What makes this riff unique is that I started writing the rhythm first instead of starting with a melody. This will be a great exercise in filling in the spaces between notes with percussive elements.
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Reviews
4 results
hy5iveme
Verified buyer
11/14/22
Great course!
Zaxan
Verified buyer
11/08/22
Excellent! Creative material, taught with beautiful clarity. Bound to add to the expressiveness of any level of player. Mike's fine teaching shows in his making complex techniques reachable by breaking things down into simple parts.
Jay
11/01/22
I just love his style
great approach to teaching, wonderful for intermediate/advanced finger style players. beautiful melodies.
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