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Here are four awesome left hand finger exercises for fingerstyle guitar to develop your dexterity. Use these in your practice routine to develop your fretting hand strength and agility. Doing these exercises will help keep your fingers nimble.
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Would you like to better understand and unlock the secrets of guitar harmonics? We will discuss how to play harmonics on the acoustic guitar with this comprehensive guide to fingerstyle guitar harmonics.
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To play fingerstyle guitar fluently, you must have precise coordination between the plucking hand and the fretting hand. Let's learn a simple yet effective exercise that will help improve your coordination.

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The best warm up exercises for fingerstyle guitar are guitar scales. Here are some scales that you can use to warm up before playing.
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Improving your guitar fretting hand technique can allow you greater speed and accuracy when playing fingerstyle guitar. Do not start concentrating the other hand that does the string picking before fixing your fretting hand technique.
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If you are playing fingerstyle guitar songs, chances are you will come across a fast lick. Here are three tips on how to practice and play these fast guitar licks successfully as a fingerstyle guitarist.

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Before you can start fingerpicking like a pro, you need to use the picking hand correctly. In this article, we will discuss four common mistakes beginner fingerstyle guitarists make, and the steps to achieve the perfect hand position for fingerpicking on guitar.
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Reading the notes on the treble clef is a skill that many self-taught fingerstyle guitarists don't get around to mastering. It's important, however, to learn to read and recognize the notes on the treble clef. This is an activity or game that you can use to improve your recognition of the notes on the staff written with the treble clef.

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A guitar capo turns the guitar into a transposing instrument. This can make it difficult to transcribe music into tablature.

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To play fingerstyle guitar, you must have a rock-solid understanding of meter and different time signatures. Here's how to ensure that your timing is correct when learning fingerstyle guitar.

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From his unique playing style to his signature songs, guitarist Sungha Jung has inspired droves of guitarists to learn fingerstyle guitar. Here is how to get started playing guitar like Sungha Jung.

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If you are at the beginning stages of learning fingerstyle guitar, make sure you get the basics down before moving on to advanced fingerstyle tunes. Here are the steps to do that.

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It’s been fashionable for quite some time for creators to upload arrangements of animé songs for their instrument. The most popular seem to be piano, violin and guitar. Here is why you should choose the guitar.
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If you are practicing fingerstyle guitar for long periods of time, preventing injuries should be a priority. In this article, we will explore some of the most common injuries you can get while practicing fingerstyle guitar. We will also discuss tips and strategies for preventing them.
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Learning guitar chords is the first step in improving your fretting hand. If you get stuck at learning guitar chords because you can't remember where to put your fingers, try thinking in terms of chord shapes.

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In fingerstyle guitar, the right hand is responsible for plucking the strings. In this blog post, we will explore three exercises that can be used to develop fingerpicking technique for the right hand.
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The original fingerstyle guitar music by Sungha Jung continues to be popular. Here is my pick of the top 10 original songs by Sungha Jung that contain a lot of musical variety.

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At some point you will have to change your guitar from standard tuning to something else. This is called an alternate tuning, and this article shows you how to do that, as well as some common tunings you may come across in fingerstyle guitar.
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A unique alternate tuning is the Open Low E major tuning. In this article we will show how to use this rich, full alternate tuning which Sungha Jung uses for certain songs.

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In this article, we'll explore how to play fingerstyle guitar in a popular alternate tuning: DADGAD tuning. We will show how it differs from standard tuning, and how you can use it to create breathtaking music.
Read more: How to Use DADGAD Tuning to Play Beautiful Fingerstyle Guitar Music