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[Oasis]

Hello Everyone and @Steve Krenz. Its nice to be here.

I play the keyboard and drums but there's something about the guitar that I love so much and I decided to learn to play. 

I'm very much interested in the fingerstyle but if I'm to use to learn and master materials, do I have to use the learn and master guitar first? And then the Fingerstyle material? 

Also, do I use workshop first and then bonus afterwards or? 

Would love to get an answer soon. I'm super excited. Cheers 

 

[Wim VD1]

28 minutes ago, Oasis said:

Hello Everyone and @Steve Krenz. Its nice to be here.

I play the keyboard and drums but there's something about the guitar that I love so much and I decided to learn to play. 

I'm very much interested in the fingerstyle but if I'm to use to learn and master materials, do I have to use the learn and master guitar first? And then the Fingerstyle material? 

Also, do I use workshop first and then bonus afterwards or? 

Would love to get an answer soon. I'm super excited. Cheers 

 

Welcome to the forum, @Oasis!

I would recommend indeed that you do the Learn and Master Guitar course first. You should be at an intermediate level before starting Steve's Fingerstyle course. Take your time to build good fundaments and enjoy the journey.

Wim.

 

 

[Oasis]

Thank you Wim. Learning can be frustrating. Very. I keep missing strings. What was it like learning? 

[DianeB]

@Oasis   Welcome to the forum! Playing keyboards and drums gives you a great head start on learning guitar. I agree with Wim that it's best in most situations to start with Steve's general guitar course. That course takes up basic fingerstyle about midway through. The fingerstyle course assumes from the outset that you have certain skills.

But if you are really intent on learning fingerstyle, there's no reason you can't start learning right hand patterns right at the beginning, on the six open strings. It won't be really musical, but some exercises just aren't. If you have access to an in-person teacher, take advantage, and the sooner the better.

Explore the forum at your leisure. There's a lot of good advice here. Practice faithfully and the music will follow.

[matonanjin]

Yes, @Oasis.  Exactly what @Wim VD1 recommended.  The first 10 or so sessions of Learn and Master Guitar are the basics of learning guitar you will need for any type of playing you will do. Then with session 10 Steve starts to specialize.  Session 10 is fingerstyle, 13 is blues, 15 is rock, 18 is jazz, etc.   I would suggest you finish at least session 10.  At that point you can decide if you 1) want to complete all of L&M G; 2) switch over to the Fingerstyle course, or 2) continue in L&M G and start on the Fingerstyle course working it concurrently (if you have the time to do both).

Good luck to you!  Keep us appraised of your progress.

[Oasis]

Thank you so much. I'm very grateful

 

[HuNu]

I have a question. When playing the pentatonic scales I'm getting a lot of unintended string noise. Like I'm doing a pullout but not wanting to. Anyone else have that problem? How do I correct? Thanks.