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Alternating Thumb Fingerstyle- Lesson #1

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Are you serious about learning fingerstyle guitar? Like, really serious? Then you're at the right place. This is the first lesson in an entire course on alternating thumb fingerstyle guitar (think Merle & Chet). No matter your experience, start at the beginning and let's lay down some solid technique, then take the final exam to see how you're doing!

Chet Atkins Merle Travis fingerstyle technique

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  1. Patty Lindstrom ·

    Slowed the video to 50% and worked it a measure at a time. Two weeks in and it's coming. Patience is the lesson here as much as the notes.

  2. Tom Vasquez ·

    Same here at first. What fixed it for me was practicing that measure by itself for a week, no B part at all.

  3. Katie Clark Support ·

    Answered over in the tab thread too, but short version: play what's comfortable, the tab is a map not a law.

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