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Welcome to ‘Fingerpicking Classics: Learn The Most Stunning Songs On Fingerstyle Guitar’ where you will learn some of most classic guitar songs ever! If you want to become a fingerpicking guitarist who can play real songs and not just boring exercises, then check this out.
Join this online only HD digital e-Course and learn the following songs…
The Beatles – Blackbird
Blackbird is one of the most memorable fingerpicking songs ever!
Here Dan Thorpe breaks the song up into smaller parts and shows you all the parts of this classic.
Ed Sheeran – Tenerife Sea
No fingerstyle course would be complete without some Ed Sheeran on it. Here we have Ed Sheeran’s most stunning guitar work to date.
Your audience will love this one. I’d say it’s Ed Sheeran’s most impressive guitar work to date. He combines subtle but sublime guitar picking with great lyrics and a superb chorus. All together you have a great song that all of his fans love and it’s one your fans will love too.
The Calling – Wherever You Will Go
A simple yet stunning song that pretty much everyone knows. One of the massive hits from the early noughties, this song is one many forget they know. As soon as they hear the opening fingerpicked notes, it all comes back.
To me that’s the sign of a great song, play the first few notes and everyone knows it! Learn this simple classic and get crooning!
Simon and Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair
Scarborough Fair was a huge hit for these two folk pop legends and one that will go down in history as an important part of one of musics most memorable gigs – the New York Central Park gig.
That night they played this amazing song and blew the whole city away.
Blow your audience away with your rendition of this distinctive and powerful classic.
Tracy Chapman – Fast Car
Fast Car is a song close to my heart and I remember hearing it as a kid and really loving it back then. Since teaching guitar, ‘Fast Car’ has made its way to the top of my list as the first fingerpicking song that I teach most of my private students – if they like it of course!
Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová – Falling Slowly (from the huge film ‘Once’)
The 2008 Academy Award winning song from the massive independent film ‘Once’. This song, the winner for best original song category is so sweet and so pretty it will melt any of the day’s frustrations away.
It’s songs like this that make getting home from work and picking up the guitar so satisfying. It is so powerful. It can and often does bring a lump in the throat of people when they play and listen to it. Check it out if you don’t know it.
Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars
A unique fingerpicking version of this beautiful song that uses just 3 simple chords and some sweet embellishments.
R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts
A true 90’s classic that everyone know. You’ll learn how to fingerpick in 6/8 and play in a Dorian mode. – by the way, it’s easier than it sounds!
Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley/Rufus Wainwright – Hallelujah
It’s getting closer to Christmas and this is a great time to learn this classic song that is so popular at this time of the year.
My version, that you will learn, is a hybrid of the Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright version. It has the best of both worlds – sounds great but is simple to play.
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
Everyone knows this. A rather simple but highly powerful song that you can learn in just minutes.
If you’re a singer, that’s a bonus but if not you have a cool instrumental that will be easy to learn. Some of the chords you don’t even need to fret the strings for!
Ferdinando Carulli – Andantino
This is a truly beautiful piece that you might not know the name of, but you will be sure to recognise. Even if you have somehow never heard it before, you might just instantly fall in love with its melancholic beauty.
It’s one of my favourite classical pieces to teach and listen to. For all its simplicity, the music is absolutely stunning. It’s also a very impressive piece that has been described as “the sound of a waterfall”.
The complete list of songs in the course are:
- The Beatles – Blackbird
- Ed Sheeran – Tenerife Sea
- The Calling – Wherever You Will Go
- Simon and Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair
- Tracy Chapman – Fast Car
- Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová – Falling Slowly (from the huge film ‘Once’)
- Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
- Ferdinando Carulli – Andantino
- James Bay – Hold Back The River
- Rufus Wainwright – Hallelujah
- Idina Menzel – Let It Go (from the film ‘Frozen’)
- R.E.M. – Everybody Hurts
- Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars
- James Taylor – Fire and Rain
That’s not it. There is a very cool bonus too.
Bonus – Fingerpicking Riffs Medley
How to play some of the most distinctive fingerpicking riffs ever in one awesome sounding and easy to learn medley.
By the end of this section you will have a medley of some of the most distinctive songs about and you’ll be able to play them in one go seamlessly.
That way when someone asks you to play something you know, instead of going blank and not knowing what to play, you can just play the ‘riffs medley’ and impress them instantly.
That will make you feel great when you see the look of surprise and delight on their faces.
There isn’t a sweeter sound in the history of the universe than a beautiful fingerpicked song played well. Audiences, no matter how small or large love to hear a simple piece of music played on a lovely sounding acoustic guitar.
Check out the HD videos and learn all the parts to these stunning songs.
Join the e-Course today to improve your guitar skills and impress your audience! Reviews and testimonials for the course
- Steve Madden, 5 Stars – “Really great course. Full of good songs (which I never appreciated before) but do now. Lots of free goodies as well.”
- Sujoy Chakraborty, 5 Stars – “Awesome!!
- Tamatha Campbell, 5 Stars – “Moves fast, but easy to follow. Very nice. Uses real, popular songs to practice the concepts. You won’t be spending a month on “Go tell Aunt Rhodie” here.”
- Leon V– “I am not a singer there the fingerpicking style suites me best. It is nice to play the base lines and melody on the same instrument. At the age of 60 years as a beginner it is something to keep me creative and it helps for a better memory. Thank you so much.”
- “Ian Avery – Am working my way through your course and am very impressed with your teaching style – You explain everything really clearly and don’t lose me along the way. It is note for note tuition and you repeat everything before moving on. This is EXACTLY what I need. I hope that you will continue to bring similar video courses out in the future because the method you employ really works – you have obviously taught many students over the years and it comes over.Brilliant”.
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