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EntertainmentHow to Play Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Fingerstyle Guitar with Adam Smale

Transcript

My name’s Adam Smale. I’ve been playing guitar since 7 years old and I’m 45 now, so I’ll let you do the math. And I’ve been playing professionally for around 33 years, since the age of 12. I wrote a book, called “New Approach to Scales” for guitars. Basically, this book really is a new approach to playing scales. It’s not, sort of regurgitation of scales that have come before, the same old thing. I’ve developed a new approach to mapping out the guitar neck and playing scales in a completely different way.
If you’re more interested in checking this book out, you can go to newapproachtoscales.com. This here, is a guitar that I designed and had someone in Toronto, by the name of Brian Mascarin build for me. It’s a seven string guitar, but it’s a little bit different. It’s a low E, on the sixth string. And matter of fact, I consider this the sixth string, but the seventh string is a high string. So, I think of it as six, five, four, three, two, one, seven, because that’s the one that’s different.
Aside from gigging around the New York area, I also compose my own music and I have a CD coming out, sometime in the New Year. And, so be on the lookout for that. If you’d like to learn more about me and what I do, you can visit my website, its adamsmale-jazz.com.


Lessons in this Guide

How to Play Jazz Chords in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Fingerstyle Guitar with Adam Smale

How to Play Intros & Outros in Blues in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Trills & Finger Tap in Rock in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Flamenco in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Walking Bass Lines in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Bluegrass in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Folk Patterns in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play in Drop D Tuning in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Read Slash Chord Notation in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Slap in Funk in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Major Scales in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Strum in Bluegrass in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Reggae in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Modes in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Runs in Bluegrass in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Match Modes with Chords in Fingerstyle Guitar

Using Fingers Independently in Jazz in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Use Tone, Expression & Dynamics in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Understand Major Scales in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Runs Using Open Strings in Bluegrass

How to Play Vibrato in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Golpe in Flamenco in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Invert Triads in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Tremolo in Flamenco in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Bend Strings & Play Vibrato in Rock on Guitar

How to Play Tremolo in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Blues in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Diatonic Triads in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Easy Bass Lines in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Inversions on 4th, 3rd & 2nd Strings on Guitar

How to Plant Your Fingers in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Play Funk in Fingerstyle Guitar

How to Fingerpick Guitar Chords

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