Fingerstyle Blues Guitar

HiDERA | 16 August 2025 | 2.2 GB

Ready to expand your blues fingerstyle skills? In this eight-lesson video course, you’ll learn several great-sounding fingerpicking arrangements of well-known songs, such as “St. James Infirmary,” “Beale Street Blues,” “St. Louis Blues,” and more. In each lesson, you’ll gain valuable skills like thumb-finger right-hand independence, chord inversions, chromatic passing tones/chords, 6ths riffs, among others. By the time you’re through with the course, you’ll not only have several pieces added to your repertoire, but you’ll have sharpen you fingerpicking skills in general. These videos are designed for the late beginner-early intermediate player looking to improve their fingerstyle skills and learn some great tunes in the process. The course begins with several lessons from acoustic guitar wiz Gabe Andrews, the first of which is “St. James Infirmary.” Gabe shares a fairly bare-bones arrangement of this piece in D minor to get you started, which is comprised of only a steady bass and melody. Then it’s on to “Beale Street Blues,” which expands upon the bass/melody approach by adding more movement in both voices.