Fingerstyle Guitar

Should You Use Classical or Fingerstyle Guitar Technique?

I get a lot of emails asking questions like :

“I play classical guitar and I find it hard to play with a thumbpick.”
“I studied classical guitar for years and I just can’t get the groove right.”

A great classical guitar technique is a thing of beauty – and I worked on it for a long time.

However, for “African” based music, you need an entirely different “touch”. The “groove” is built into the “touch”. You can’t separate the two.

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Home Studio Gear For Recording Great Sounding Fingerstyle Guitar

By Adam Rafferty 45 Comments

I call this an “update” because you may have read my earlier post or seen my videos on recording fingerstyle guitar for Youtube videos.

Here, I will describe my home studio setup with getting a great sound in mind.

Please comment below if you have a suggestion or want to mention your gear – or, especially if anything I am saying is not accurate!

Hey – I just made current, which gives all the details on the gear that I used to record my new CD “Play Pretty for the People.”

If you are thinking about recording at home, you will love this guide. I list my home gear (guitars, strings, software, mics, and more…). Enjoy! 🙂

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Find out what simple (and affordable) equipment I use at home to record to get a CD quality fingerstyle guitar sound.

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The Attitude

All kinds of gear sounds great for fingerstyle guitar. There are many ways to do record it, mine is just one…here goes.

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10 Tips for Healthy Guitar Practicing

By Adam Rafferty 130 Comments

I’m gonna give you some straight talk about practicing guitar and taking good care of your body and hands.

This is especially relevant today since so many people are self taught from videos and don’t have a real life teacher for feedback.

The “He / She Never Stops Practicing” Myth – Debunked!

One of the favorite “myths” that fans and students hold in mind is that “great musicians practice 24 hours a day, to the exclusion of everything else and that’s why they are so good!”

People always ask me how “many hours a day I practice” and I see that they are living exactly this fantasy of “wow you are a dedicated artist who practices all the time!”

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