Song Tutorials and Lessons in "Challenging Fingerpicking Songs"

Do some fingerpicking, play some slide, and that's just the lead work! Acoustic just strums the night away.

Lots of tom work in this one!!

Drivey song but not too difficult.

Basic Chorder!

Nice groover with easy lead and rhythm.

Pretty simple tune. Only one groove to learn.

Great intro and Chorus riff.

Easy 4 chords!

Intense acoustic and slide lead guitar

Lets figure out how to condense some of the grooves.

Super great and really easy!

Nice piano lines...

Beautiful song. Lead has some easy slide and ambient work while acoustic is picked throughout. Warm up those fingers!

Simple and straight forward.

Lots of space and a gentle approach.

Lay down the piano and pads.

Foot stomper that's a joy to play. Electric is a piece of cake.

Taking two drummers and making them one.

Nice hollow body Bass tone

Diamonds are forever!

Effect heavy riffs that sound harder than they are. Rhythm strumming is a little tricky.

Remember the title of this song when you first give it a listen.

I've simplified a bit but there's additional content for you pros.

Don't let this one scare you. Not as rough as you might think.

Beautiful tune with simple finger picking and easy lead.

Only one groove making all that much more important to hang in the pocket.

Second verse is amazing!

A nice piano ballad.

3 Chords, a couple of riffs, and you're good to go

Put your seatbelt on for this one.

Lots of stops and starts but same chords all the way through.

Nice long holds...

Picky on acoustic with a nice counter melody on lead

Fun and easy!!

Great little riff parts in the verse and down Chorus!

Easy Chorder

One of our favorite solo acoustic chapters ever.

We have to wait a bit before we come in but its totally worth it!!

Very cool bridge parts!

Easy piano arps!

Melodic fingerpicking and lead work

A lot of percussion going on in this song so we need to pick out the root groove!

Nice groove towards the end.

Tasty parts on this one.

Banjo on guitar!!

Pretty simple folky song with a cool drum break!

Really fun bass parts! Go for it!

A folksy-kind of tune slammed with synths!

If you don't have a banjo, we've got you covered.

Fun.. Upbeat.. and a little hint of bluegrass

Octaves!!

Octaves!!!!

This one drives so warm that strumming hand up.

This is a riff heavy song but once you get it its great.

Cool strumming riff and we love the bridge riff for the lead guitar.

You really got to dig into these grooves.

This is a great song that has easy parts. It has some extra bits in the bridge if you want to get them.

You're gonna have fun with this one.

Straight forward and folky.

Such a great song to learn and play on. It is a bass playing delight.

Heavy on piano and organ.

High energy burner. Turn it up to 11.

This one is pretty fast so hold on!

Lots to do with the rhythm on this one and that guitar tone is funky.

Fairly simple song to learn and don't forget we're in 6/8.

Classic Chord'r

Lots of fun acoustic fingerpicking and strumming with some simple lead work.

Another easy chorder with a few syncopated lines.

Slow builder with a huge crescendo. Stretch your hands acoustic players.

The kitchen sink for piano!

Love. This. Song. Mellow all throughout. Tons of fingerpicking but easy enough for a novice. Give it a shot.

Pretty fingerpicking and some nice ambient lead work.

Super simple with one little passing tone.

High energy strumming combines with some fingerpicking to create one of our most fun songs to play.

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