Here is a List of all blog and podcast posts – enjoy!
- Internationales Gitarren Festival Wertingen: Sharing Music with the Next Generation
- “Misty” – Fingerstyle Guitar (2024 Update) – Adam Rafferty
- “Michelle” – Fingerstyle Guitar (2024 Update)- Adam Rafferty (The Beatles)
- “Fly Me To The Moon” – Fingerstyle Guitar (2024 Update) – Adam Rafferty
- “I Want To Hold Your Hand” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (The Beatles)
- How to STOP Left-Hand Wrist Pain on Guitar – Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
- Effortless Barre Chords: Unlock the 5 Secrets Every Beginner Needs – Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Benjamin Simar
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Monteo Fajoto Myers
- “Too Hot” (Kool and The Gang) – Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
- What’s So Great About “Cherokee?” | Adam Rafferty – Jazz Guitar
- 3 Reasons I’ve STOPPED Using a Pick for Jazz Guitar…
- I learned THIS 35 years ago – and I STILL LOVE IT! (“Donna Lee” – Jazz Guitar)
- “Fear of Falling” | Jule Malischke & Adam Rafferty | Fingerstyle Guitar & Vocals
- How to Solo Over “Autumn Leaves” With the Blues (and Pentatonic) Scale | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Frank Stroobandt
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Randy McGowan
- “Billie Jean” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Michael Jackson) 2023
- “Superstition” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Stevie Wonder) 2023
- “Isn’t She Lovely” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Stevie Wonder)
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Brian Crouch
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Nick Northcott
- “Time in a Bottle” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Jim Croce)
- “Kashmir” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Led Zeppelin)
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Peter Langer
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Rick Burney
- “Stayin’ Alive” (Bee Gees) – Adam Rafferty Fingerstyle Guitar
- STOP Using Your EMOTIONS to Play Guitar!
- Capo Catastrophe: STOP Ruining Your Music with This Common Mistake! – Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Heimo Gladik
- Download Your Free “Guitar Mastery Progress Calendar” – Adam Rafferty
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Scott Peck
- 3 EASY Piano Chords EVERY Guitarist Needs to Know (Bach’s #1 Harmony Technique)
- 2 SEXY Jazz Chords for “Ain’t No Sunshine” | Adam Rafferty – Guitar Lesson
- 5 LIFE CHANGING Guitar Skills I Learned from 16 Years of Playing Fingerstyle | Adam Rafferty
- “Every Breath You Take” LIVE – (Sting) | Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
- I Can’t Stop Practicing This BACH Piece (as a Fingerstyle Guitarist…)
- Spice Up Your Blues Guitar With Tasty Jazz Chords | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
- Bach Style Arpeggios for Fingerstyle Guitar | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
- J.S. Bach on Guitar “Jesu Meine Freude” BWV 227 | Adam Rafferty Plays the Zucali Crossover Guitar
- My #1 Music Theory Trick for Guitarists (and 99% won’t do it…) | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
- My “Weird” Right Hand Guitar Technique | Adam Rafferty
- Taylor 314 CE vs Maton EBG 808 C – Acoustic Guitar Shootout | Adam Rafferty
- “Purple Rain” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Prince)
- Your First Jazz Guitar Lesson – Basic Chords
- “How Deep Is Your Love” – Fingerstyle Guitar
- “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” -Fingerstyle Guitar
- How to Play Guitar With Your FEET – Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Craig Relyea
- FGH 0026: Interview with Peppino D’Agostino – Transcendant Guitarist and Composer
- FGH 0025: Interview with Jon Gomm – Singer Songwriter and Fingerstyle Guitar Innovator
- FGH 0024: Interview with Thomas Fellow – First-Rate Guitarist from Germany
- All of Me – Fingerstyle Guitar
- “Mas Que Nada” – Fingerstyle Guitar (2022 Update)
- Study With Adam Guitar Legend РJ̦rn Bormann
- LEVEL UP Your Fingerstyle Guitar Technique in 5 Minutes | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
- The #1 TECHNIQUE MISTAKE that 73% of Guitarists Make (and How to Fix It)
- “Ain’t No Sunshine” – Electric Guitar (Bill Withers)
- “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” – Fingerstyle Guitar – (Gershwin)
- “Change the World” – Fingerstyle Guitar – (Eric Clapton)
- “Cheek to Cheek” – Fingerstyle Guitar (Irving Berlin)
- “The Look of Love” – Fingerstyle Guitar (NEW version)
- An emotional, LIVE version of “Imagine” | Fingerstyle Guitar
- “Ain’t Nobody” (Chaka Khan) – LIVE | Fingerstyle Guitar
- “Ain’t Misbehavin” (Fats Waller) | Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
- “Superstition” (Stevie Wonder) – LIVE | Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
- “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” (Mozart) | Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
- My Reaction to the “BLUE BOSSA” Jazz Guitar Video With Walter Rodgrigues Jr. (FREE PDF)
- FGH 0023: Interview with Muriel Anderson – Multi Dimensional Fingerstyle Champion
- FGH 0022: Interview with Billy McLaughlin – His Historic Comeback
- FGH-0021: Interview with English Fingerstyle Guitarist Richard Smith
- FGH-0020: Interview with Don Alder – National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion & Vocalist
- Every Breath You Take – Fingerstyle Guitar
- FGH-0019: Interview with Don Ross – National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion & Composer
- FGH-0018: Interview with Jazz and Country Master Guitarist Jim Nichols
- FGH-0017: Interview with Michael Fix – Australian Guitar Virtuoso
- FGH-0016: Interview with Andrea Valeri, “The Prince of The Acoustic Guitar”
- FGH-0015: Interview with Stephan Bormann, Creative and Versatile World Traveler of Guitar
- FGH-0014: Interview with Petteri Sariola, Virtuoso Percussive Guitarist & Singer Songwriter
- FGH-0013: Interview with Joscho Stephan – Gypsy Jazz Guitar Virtuoso
- 10 Things I am Thankful For Today
- FGH-0012: Interview with Ulli B̦gershausen РExpressive & Elegant Composer, Arranger and Guitarist
- FGH-0011: Interview with Emil Ernebro – Country, Jazz, & Fingerstyle Guitar Powerhouse from Sweden
- FGH-0010: Interview with Sönke Meinen – Guitarist, Composer and Winner of the 2016 “Guitar Masters” Competition
- FGH-0009: How can you overcome nervousness and panic when playing solo fingerstyle guitar onstage?
- FGH-0008: Interview with Robin Bullock – Celtic Guitar, Mandolin, Cittern and More…
- FGH-0007: Interview with Guitarist Mike Dowling – American Roots, Bottleneck Blues, Ragtime and More…
- FGH-0006: Interview With Legendary Percussive Guitar Innovator Preston Reed
- FGH-0005: Interview With Bill Cooley – One of Nashville’s Most Respected Sidemen and Guitarist for Kathy Mattea
- FGH-0004: Interview With Al Petteway – Grammy & Indie Award Winning Fingerstyle Guitarist and Composer
- FGH-0003: Interview With Tony McManus – Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar Master
- Reclaiming Creative Innocence
- How to Listen to Your Own Guitar Playing
- 9 Ways to Boost Your Creativity on Guitar (and get out of a rut)
- The Joy of Horizontal Musical Flow
- FGH-0002: How do you remember old fingerstyle guitar pieces and also learn new ones?
- FGH-0001: How will practicing 6/8 make my straight 4/4 time better?
- How to Develop Your Thumb’s “Thump” for Fingerstyle Guitar
- 2016 in Review: An Honest and Transparent Look at My Successes & Failures This Past Year
- Practicing Guitar and The Illusion of Perfection
- How to Beat the Devil With Your Guitar
- NEW CD “Play Pretty for the People”, Release Dates 8/30 and 9/6
- Saying No to Distraction and Yes to Yourself
- Discovering Your Guitar Technique
- How to Let Go of Guitar Ego
- Tips For Buying an Acoustic Guitar
- My 2015 in Review – Successes, Failures and What I Learned
- How to Access Your Inner Guitar Genius When Learning a New Piece
- Want Better Guitar Technique? Embrace Your Authenticity
- 3 Tips for Breaking Out of Your Guitar Comfort Zone
- Tour News – Australia “Acoustic Guitar Spectacular” Aug 14 – 22, 2015
- How to Practice Guitar Like Bruce Lee
- What do People See in YOUR Guitar Videos?
- 8 Tips for Playing Fingerstyle Guitar Without Making Mistakes
- How to Get More Paying Gigs Playing the Guitar
- It’s LIVE! Try ‘Study With Adam’ Free for 14 days…
- Q & A about “Study With Adam” [launching tomorrow]
- Win an iPad Mini When “Study With Adam” Launches
- “Study With Adam” Website Launching April 14, 2015
- How You Can Apply Aikido Principles to Fingerstyle Guitar
- Do You Need a College Music Degree?
- Learn Guitar Technique, then Throw it Away
- Thumb and Finger Independence for Fingerstyle Guitarists
- What’s the Best Approach for Improving Your Guitar Technique?
- Practicing Guitar and Your “Happy” Brain Chemicals…
- Should You Use a Thumb Pick for Fingerstyle Guitar?
- How to Achieve Maximum Confidence for Performing Fingerstyle Guitar
- Don’t Wash Your Face Before a Fingerstyle Guitar Gig!
- My Personal Fingerstyle Guitar Setup Measurements
- Adam Rafferty Rethinks Recording CDs & Distribution
- Practicing Music or Practicing Guitar Technique – What’s Better?
- Announcing – the “Fingerstyle Favorites” iPad Mini Winner!
- 4 Tips for Keeping Your Guitar Arrangements Under Your Fingers
- OPERATION BROOKLYN – signing 100 “Fingerstyle Favorites” DVD’s
- Win an iPad Mini from Adam….
- “Fingerstyle Favorites” DVD launching Tuesday July 8, 2014
- For Fingerstyle Guitarists – Effects & Tapping vs Melody
- 2014 – Adam Rafferty – Russia Tour Dates Just Added
- How to Stay Focused and Finish Big Projects – A Brick a Day
- Spring Tour 2014 & New Video “Just the Two Of Us”
- Should You Use Classical or Fingerstyle Guitar Technique?
- Music, Matter and Form
- Discipline, Daydreaming and Your Musical Mind
- As I Began to Love Myself: Charlie Chaplin on his 70th birthday
- How to Do Outrageous Musical Marketing
- A Personal Transparent Update & 2014 plans
- An Amazing and Creepy Coincidence
- How To Create Info Products from the Heart (and a Guitar DVD Update..)
- Home Studio Gear For Recording Great Sounding Fingerstyle Guitar
- 7 Tips for Making a Great Fingertsyle Guitar Recording (and…it’s not about the equipment!)
- How a Digital Diet Can Make You a Happier Person
- 10 Tips for Healthy Guitar Practicing
- 6 Pieces of Guitar Gear I Can’t Live Without
- Rhythm, Pitch and Your Musical Soul
- How To Build Your Own Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangements – Part 1
- The Day I Got My Butt Kicked in Harlem
- 2012 in review
- The Pitfalls of Learning Guitar from Youtube
- What You Can Learn About Practicing Guitar from a Classical Pianist
- Commitment vs Flirtation
- What is Your Musical “Slam Dunk”?
- 7 Essential Tips for a Stress Free Sound Check
- How to Kick Butt on Guitar – Creativity Plus Discipline
- How To Record Guitar For Youtube Videos
- If Paul McCartney Can’t Read Music, Why Should I?
- What’s More Important – Musical Essence or Technical Perfection?
- The Musician’s Cure to Social Media Madness
- My Formula for Musical Audience Connection “C + Y = R”
- Stevie Wonder Gives the Thumbs Up on the Guitar Arrangements!
- What You Can Learn from the Joshua Bell Story
- What’s in it For Them?
- Which Free Bonuses Would You Want with the Upcoming “How To Play Stevie Wonder Fingerstyle Guitar Volume II” DVD?
- The “Tweezer Technique” for Fingerstyle Guitar
- How to Improve Your Guitar Sound – Mentally!
- Guitar Right Hand Technique – Nails vs Flesh?
- 7 Tips for Dealing With Stage Fright and Nerves
- How To Create a Great “Set List” For Musical Performance
- As Above, So Below…on the Guitar
- How to Train Your Brain!
- Hitting “Plateaus” in Guitar Practice
- “I Remember Michael” Voted by Jazziz Magazine as a Top 10 CD of 2011 (Critics Choice Award)
- You Can’t Learn This From YouTube
- Perception – Ain’t it a Bitch?
- Do You Have New Years Resolutions? Consider This…
- Passing Inspiration Forward
- How to Sell Your Music Without Selling Your Soul – Part 1
- Gear Outside, Tone Inside
- Silence
- Coffee and Music With a Side Order of Brains, Please
- Little Changes – Big Difference
- Longo’s List – 10 Study Areas of Music
- Thoughts on the Road: Just Go For It!
- Your Chops are Your Concept
- Garbage Bags and Inner Peace
- Preparing for Stage Performance
- How To Write a Song – (Reprise – A la Seth Godin)
- How to Write a Song
- Music: There’s More Than One Way to Do It
- Everyone Needs a Coach
- Michael Jackson Guitar
- Nerves and Gigs: Particles or Waves?
- “I REMEMBER MICHAEL” Michael Jackson Solo Fingerstyle Guitar Tribute CD by Adam Rafferty – Coming Soon!
- Some thoughts on Music “Success”, “Making It” and “PR”
- Keeping Promises to Yourself
- Cause and Effect
- What Do You Spend Your Days Doing?
- The Pinky Finger and the Sistine Chapel
- The Bandstand is Sacred
- How To Achieve Originality in Your Music
- Inspiring Others Makes it All Worth It
- Long Term vs Short Term – Craft vs Overnight Success
- With Easy Fame Available on Youtube, Why Bother Developing A Craft?
- Adam Rafferty – “Lovely Day” – Bill Withers – Solo Fingerstyle Guitar
- The Message in the Music – Part One
- Technical Perfection Invites Spirit
- Feeling the Warm Fuzzies
- The Michael Jackson Fingerstyle Guitar Sessions – A Musical Mastermind Meeting
- Les Paul’s Son Gene Gives Me a Guitar Lesson
- A 15 Year Old Guitar Player asks “Do you arrange all your Michael Jackson guitar songs by ear”…
- Musicians – Please Stop “Making It Big”
- Adam Rafferty LIVE: “Play It Back” – Guitar and Human Beat Box
- Surviving the “Ouch!” of Criticism
- Listening Deeply Can Transform Your World
- Settle for Nothing But Excellence
- Alert – You may Have Been Unsubscribed from Adam Rafferty’s Email List by Accident!
- Whazzup with the blog title “Guitar and Spirit?”
- How You Do One Thing is How You Do Everything
- The Michael Jackson Fingerstyle Guitar Sessions – Coated Strings and Guitar Intonation
- Technorati
- How To Practice Guitar If You Have Just an Hour A Day
- Groove is Another Form of Love
- What is Your Ideal Listener Profile?
- A Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson from Drummer Alvin Queen
- Playing Guitar True To Oneself
- When You Change One Thought You Change Everything
- Guitar Spotlight: Soenke Meinen
- Guitar Practice Techniques to Program Your Subconcious Mind
- A New Social Media Technique For Musicians Called “ECKMA”
- How to Be A Visionary and Avoid Kryptonite
- What, So What, Now What?
- We are Living in an Exciting Era for Fingerstyle Guitar. Where’s it Going Next?
- Youtube Copyright Violation, Prince, Van Morrison and an Impossible Task
- How Big Goals Define Your Daily Activities
- Jackson Five Guitar DVD Update – Video Shoot Done…Edits on the Way!
- Awakening to Your Own Inner Harmony
- A Financial Solution for Youtube and Music Publishers
- Adam Rafferty and Tommy Emmanuel – “Tenderly” – Helsinki, Finland April 3, 2009
- Adam Rafferty – Superstition by Stevie Wonder – Solo Guitar
- Stevie Wonder Solo Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangements Lesson DVD with Tablature – Adam Rafferty
- Adam Rafferty – “I Want You Back” – Jackson 5 – Solo Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar
- Adam Rafferty – “Rock With You” – Michael Jackson – Solo Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar
- Adam Rafferty – ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ – Bonnie Raitt – Solo Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar
- Adam Rafferty – “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson – Solo Fingerstyle Guitar
- Critical Info for Youtube Musicians Who Perform Cover Songs
- Guitar Spotlight: Smokin’ Joe Robinson
- Spring 2010 Tour Highlights, Miracles and Averted Catastrophes
- The Rope, the Snake, and a Happy Ending for this April Fool
- Roll Over Amadeus!
- Financial Tip for Touring Musicians – The Numbers Don’t Lie!
- Greets from The Road – Voelklingen, Germany
- Practicing “The Gig” vs. Practicing “Guitar”
- Meditation, Affirmation, Vibration and Groove
- Love, Eternity and Watching Life Flow By
- Adam Rafferty – Message to UK Fans & Free Cd Offer
- Diving Back Into Life
- Vision Boards – Tapping True Spiritual Magic
- The Magic of Yearly Goal Setting
- A Glimpse into Attachment and Aversion
- Tour Diary – Dukkha in Cologne
- Quantum Physics and Music: Upward and Downward Causation
- How to Meet Adam Rafferty in Your Hometown While on Tour
- The Bangkok Guitar Lesson and New Goals
- Happiness for No Reason At All
- Letting Go
- A Perfect Reminder
- Planting Seeds in the Mind
- Allowing Transparency
- Christmas in August – Recording on the Road
- Busy and Joyful in Nashville
- A Taste of Eternity
- Attention Artists! Success Comes from Within…
- It is all Much Stranger Than We Think; Michael Jackson Remembered
- Savoring Your Accomplishments
- Why Achieve Goals?
- Youtube Recording Technique for Guitar Videos
- Causless Happiness
- VIDEO – Adam Rafferty and Tommy Emmanuel play in in Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland
- Tour Greetings From Helsinki, April 6 2009.
- Are You Thinking Big Enough? Am I?
- Cohesion, Life Force and Music
- The Secret to Improving Your Guitar Skills and Battling Frustration
- The Ever Clever Litte Ego
- Listening
- The Gimme Trap
- Adam Rafferty Tour Diary 11/15/08 – Guitar Air Travel Tactics
- Greetings from The Road Again – European Tour Update 11/9/08
- The Miraculous Nature of Manifestation
- A Note from 10,000 Feet
- Eating Frogs…mmmm Yummy!
- Adam Rafferty Gig Review @ The Bug Theater – Denver, CO Sept 9, 2008
- Introducing the Human Web Browser
- Adam Rafferty Gig Review @ Henflings – Ben Lomand,CA 8-21-08
- Steep into the Blues and then Jazz is Easy – 2008 Bay Area Guitar Workshop
- Don’t tell me you can groove – (Part 2)
- Don’t Tell Me You Can Groove…Show Me!!!
- Adam Rafferty and Friends LIVE @ The Bar Next Door, NYC Gig Review 7/20/08
- Greetings from CAAS in Nashville, TN!
- Stillness at 7am and Pervading Peace
- Letting Seeds Grow
- Huh? Licensing & Copyrights On The Web? I thought is was FREE?
- The Importance of Art and The Excellence of Tommy Emmanuel
- Giving a Free Sample Away Now; Receiving Later After the Buffer of Time
- Music and Magic
- Are Your Goals Supported by Your Environments?
- Is the picture out there, or in here?
- Jazzheads, meet everyday folks who love music! Folks, meet the jazzheads!
- Back home in NYC, and still “Kentucky Fried” – Mission Accomplished!
- Tour Diary: Greetings from Charleston,WV Again!
- Tour Diary: Greetings from Charleston WV!
- Greetings from Morehead, KY – “Americana Crossroads” Interview
- Tour Diary – Greetings from Louisville, KY!
- Tour Diary- Greetings from Leesburg VA 5-10-08!
- Adam Rafferty on Tour May 2008: Kentucky Fried Pickin’, BOSE L1, Visualization and more…
- Adam Rafferty On the Road: April 2008 Europe Tour Review
- Things are a Changin; Right Livelihood in the ‘Hood!
- Don’t Use a Metronome
- Safe Air Travel with an Acoustic Guitar – Part 2
- Adam Rafferty Mini Tour in PA 2/2008 – Review
- Thoughts Become Things and Things Become Thoughts
- Organize and You’ll Be More Productive and Happier
- Musical Imitation, Realization and Maturity
- Are You a “Do it Yourself” Type Person?
- Changing Your Reality By Visualizing
- Get Good Enough Out of the Way; Make Room for Great
- The Mastermind Group
- The Healing Powers of Music: Part 1
- Freedom From The Approval of Others: PERSONAL VICTORY!
- Human Beatbox and Guitar….Fun!
- Adam Rafferty @ 169 Bar 10/19/07 – Concert Review
- Practicing is Just Watching, That’s All
- The Butt Technique
- Gratitude is the Present
- Forget Time and Be Here Now
- Some Mumbo Jumbo and a Music Lesson
- Forget Results
- Letting Go of Feelings
- Rock vs. Jazz, Part 1
- Letting Go of Wanting
- Allow it to Happen
- Why I Play “The Hunt” – a Song by Tommy Emmanuel
- Providing Contrast For an Audience
- Connecting With Another Person
- Rhythm
- Gratitude
- Say Goodbye to The Shiny Silver Disc
- Wanted and Unwanted
- Motivation vs. Inspiration
- The Buffer Of Time and Manifesting Anything You Want
- The Benefit of Welcoming Unwanted Feelings
- Technically Correct vs. Spiritually Correct (Music)
- The Better it Gets, The Better it Gets
- Welcome