Hal Leonard Fingerstyle Fitness

Hal Leonard Fingerstyle Fitness at a glance

Fingerstyle guitar offers tremendous versatility in sound and repertoire for guitarists. The performance of melodies, chords, bass lines, and rhythmic patterns create a rich, expressive sound that is ideal for solo playing.

Hal Leonard Fingerstyle Fitness helps ambitious players learn the techniques of true fingerstyle icons such as Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Leo Kottke, and Tommy Emmanuel. In doing so, the edition teaches right and left hand skills through effective exercises, the ability to create beautiful arrangements and, of course, establish an effective practice routine. Vivid support is provided by 80 downloadable instructional videos, which demonstrate the exercises in the best possible way and help to achieve quick and lasting success.

From the contents:

• Right hand dexterity
• Speed of the right hand
• Important patterns
• Stretching exercises for the left hand
• Independence of the fingers
• Legato techniques
• Barré techniques
• Travis Picking
• Arpeggios and scales
• Creating fingerstyle arrangements