Fingerstyle for the Curious Guitarist

Complete fingerstyle guitar course. Fingerpicking techniques. Beginner to advanced.

What's Inside

Course Stats:

  • 1.5 hours on-demand video
  • 13 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access


Welcome to Fingerstyle for the Curious Guitarist! This is a complete fingerstyle guitar course for all levels of playing & improvising using fingerstyle & fingerpicking technique. Fingerstyle is a widely popular technique for playing guitar and can be used in many styles of music. Guitarists will often study this style alongside regular flatpicking playing.

Any kind of six-string guitar will work well for this course - electric, acoustic, or classical guitar.

The first few lessons will quickly get you up-to-speed with the terminology, such as our string names, reading TAB, and naming our picking fingers. Next, we'll use finger rolls, dyads, & triads (plus combinations of these) to play through chord progressions using only fingerpicking. We'll explore technique after technique of fingerstyle approaches to playing anything & everything without the use of a pick. We'll also work on traditional classical & Spanish techniques using open-handed strumming.


Everything in this course is in TAB form - no music reading required.

Many of these lesson videos have PDF attachments which are the tabs & text lessons. You can download, save, & print these. Be sure to get all the PDFs.


Course Requirements:

  • This course is for everyone - including complete beginners.
  • You only need a guitar - any kind of guitar with six strings.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn fingerstyle guitar.
  • Beginner, intermediate, & advanced guitarists.
  • Guitarists wanting to level-up their fingerpicking skills.
  • Guitarists wanting to improvise using fingerstyle technique.


What you'll learn:

  • Every common fingerstyle technique.
  • Modern & classical methods.
  • Be able to play anything using fingerpicking techniques.
  • Common finger rolls.
  • Improvise & be creative with your fingerpicking.
  • Open-handed strumming.
  • Chords & solos using fingerstyle techniques.
  • Fast fingerstyle scale runs.


By the end of this course, you'll have all the tools you need to play anything on the guitar using a fingerstyle approach.

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Dan Dresnok

I’m Dan Dresnok, your guitar teacher. I've been teaching guitar for over 30 years. I've taught thousands of students both online & in-person. I'm the author of the book The Curious Guitarist. I’ve worked as a performer, studio session guitarist, & group guitar clinic moderator. I specialize in jazz, blues, & rock guitar and music theory. 

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