Fingerstyle techniques for translating piano to guitar – 6:39 min

New fingerpicking chord voicings and add walking bass lines lesson – 8:10 min

Combine melody lines and chords together to transcribe other instruments on guitar inspired by Louis Armstrong – 11:58 min

Acoustic guitar techniques and embellishments inspired by John Mayer – 10:45 min

In this fingerstyle acoustic guitar lesson Dave Nassie teaches some new chords, chordal embellishments, and techniques in the R&B pop style of John Mayer. Learn some cool new chords and ways to transition to chords as well as some new lead tone intervals. Dave goes over all the chords and builds the progression at first and then he gets into the playing techniques. Dave then gets into the pick hand embellishments that you can do with each chord to spice up and bring excitement and drama to the progression. Build your laundry list of chordal techniques with this lesson and then try to blast these techniques across all your playing. Get creative with these chords and progressions and put your own spin on them. 

Classic Rock finger picked chord movements in the style of BLIND FAITH – 10:41 min

In this lesson Ben Zinn teaches some cool chordal movements in a fingerpicked classic rock style. This lesson is in Drop D tuning so lower your low E string down a whole step to a D. THis lesson focuses around a D chord and moving bass notes around that chord. Ben first teaches all the chords and slash chords that you will be using in this lesson. Ben then gets into the finger pattern that he utilizes to fingerpick this progression. YOu can also strum the progression if that is more comfortable or you can use a variety of different patterns and combinations of strumming and fingerpicking – get creative and have fun with these chords and techniques.

Fingerpicking TRIAD Intervals and making sweet sounding chordal music – 8:37 min

In this lesson Dave NAssie teaches all about intervals and cool sounding fingerpicked chords. Dave teaches all about putting chords together and making nice sounding progressions and rhythms. Dave starts off with a D chord, Em chord, Em7 chord, and A chords. dAve gets into some three note chords, or triads, and how to incorporate them into these progressions. Dave goes over the fingerpicking pattern and which finger plays each string. THis lesson will get the creative juices flowing and you can start mixing up these chords and triads to make tons of cool sounding progressions. STay creative and use this lesson as a jump off point to come up with your own song ideas and progressions – enjoy!