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Is this Program Suited for Fingerstyle Players?
Just joined and realized the program is primarily focused on playing the guitar with a pick.
Tony’s description of me is perfect: Lifetime beginner. However, I’ve played fingerstyle my whole life and would like feedback on whether I can still benefit from Tony’s program without using a pick.
Many thanks!
Rudy G
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9 Replies
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welcome aboard. I too am a longtime beginner . I always do fingerstyle as well.When you get into the daily challenges you will find many flat pick things, but, you will also find many fingerstyle challenges as well. Tony is no slouch himself at fingerstyle. I think in the long run you will really like this place and the folks are great here. Hang in and you will see.
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Will do. Thank you for your reply. Much appreciated!
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Welcome to TAC! I’ll second mrfredsporty’s recommendation. I’ve seen lots of finger style material since joining 5 months ago, and TAC is an awesome community. Check in regularly with the forums, you’ll always get plenty of feedback and encouragement here!
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Welcome!
The Daily challenges Monday through Friday are based around flat picking some weeks, fingerstyle some weeks. It follows this format: Monday is technique; Tuesday is Guitar lick; Wednesday is Improv (with a backing track); Thursday is Rhythm; and Friday is Chord Progression. So it teaches both. There are skill courses also; some using flat picking and some with fingerstyle. I am fairly new to the guitar (maybe 3.5 years playing, about 2.5 years in TAC); but it is through this course I started learning finger style. Here is a link to something I was able to do because of my time in TAC. I am not putting this on here because it is that good, but because it was only possible because of this program. I don’t know how experienced you are in fingerstyle to know how much you may get out of it; but for the newbie I was, it helped a lot. I would encourage you to do the flat picking challenges and skill courses also. Doing both styles seems to me to increase my skill level; they compliment each other.
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Hi,
I was in a similar situation to you. I was going over the same two finger-style pieces making the same mistakes for years.
What I have discovered is that I need to do easier things. To build confidence to work on harder things, but not so hard that i am discouraged.
The two finger-style skill courses are a good place to start. I still use some of those lessons to improve my technique.
I find Tony breaks down finger style into manageable chunks.
In answer to your question: very much so.
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Tony’s program really covers both techniques and there are some separate finger style courses there as well for you to digest. I am personally much better with a pick, but I trick I employ, especially with the warmup exercises is to reverse the technique to further challenge my already challenged self. In other words take a warmup that uses the pick and try playing it finger style and visa versa. I find that some of them are really hard to execute when you do this – but I guess that is the point – you don’t get better without trying things that are beyond you.
Anyhow, some food for thought.
Enjoy
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I would say if I had to choose that I’m a finger style preference player, but having done TAC a while I am now comfortable pick or finger. I joy in either depending on the song and style. Which do you like? Snickers or Milky Way? Depends on the mood. Stick with it and lick your chops.
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Many thanks and appreciation to everyone.
I’m going to stick with it as there is so many helpful things to learn regardless of whether you flatpick or go fingerstyle.
The concept of a 10 minute daily challenge has been huge for me, as it gets the guitar in my lap every day and it ALWAYS turns out to be much more than 10 minutes.
A pleasure meeting all of you!!
Kindest regards,
Rudy
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Hey @rudygilbertigmail-com ;
You just hit the nail on the head. 10 minutes a day, that’s the “secret weapon”. Now, there’s actually more, way more, to Tony’s teaching and method and this site. But that’s what makes us all a very different player, right from the beginning. We pick up the guitar… everyday. Then we just follow Tony’s lead. Eventually, we figure out that if we can come up with our own plan, we can do this ourselves.
For over a year, I did all the lessons just using fingerstyle. I did the flat pick lessons fingerstyle. Now, I have gone back to using a flat pick, but I still prefer finger style.
MG 😀
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