30th Anniversary Edition! The Art of Solo Fingerpicking (Digital Book/Online Audio)

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Included in 50 Greatest Guitar Books, this 30th Anniversary Edition of The Art of Solo Fingerpicking teaches intermediate-to-advanced fingerstyle guitar, and features four cool new compositions and arrangements from Mark Hanson. Add hot techniques and pieces to your repertoire!

Watch Mark play three of the new instrumentals – Cast Away, Mythos and Easy Virtue – on YouTube.

 

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For Intermediate and More Advanced Fingerpickers

Included in the recent book 50 Greatest Guitar Books, this 30th Anniversary Edition of The Art of Solo Fingerpicking includes four cool new compositions and arrangements from Mark Hanson, plus numerous updated and expanded features.

The digital book and online recording thoroughly describe the intermediate-to-advanced picking techniques associated with some of today’s greatest fingerstyle professionals. There are 14 solo instrumentals, 12 are originals and arrangements from Mark Hanson. All exercises and tunes are played at half- and full-speed on the recording. You’ll be able to add hot techniques and pieces to your repertoire with this title!

A hardcopy edition of this product is available for mail order.

This complete digital download is available through an external site, Platform Purple. For more information on our digital downloads, see About Digital Downloads.

Watch Mark play three of the new instrumentals – Cast Away, Mythos and Easy Virtue – on YouTube.

Listen to an audio preview of “Golden Valley,” from the instructional CD:

Table of Contents

Introduction
What You Need to Know
The Music and CD
Right-Hand Position
Left-Hand Position
Alternating-Bass Fundamentals
How To Practice
“Red, White & Blue Rag”
Beyond Pattern Playing
Freeing the Fingers
Rearranging Finger Notes
Variations on Rearranging
Deleting Finger Notes
Adding Finger Notes
“Devil’s Dream”
“Freight Train”
Freeing The Thumb
“Cast Away” NEW
“Easy Virtue” NEW
Alternating Bass In Other Meters
Quarter-Note Meters
Eighth-Note Meters
“Mythos” NEW
Additional Thumb Techniques
Thumb Plays Melody
Overlap Of Right-Hand Thumb And Fingers
“Etude”
Right-Hand Rolls
Three-Note Rolls
Four-Note Rolls
“Hesitation Blues” NEW
“Dedicated to Mississippi John Hurt”
Five-Note Rolls
“Golden Valley”
“Flier”
Damping
Left-Hand Damping
“Good Time Blues”
Right-Hand Damping
Rest Stroke
Combining Left- and Right-Hand Damping
“Twin Sisters”
Gaining Speed: Left-Hand Articulation
“Strawberry Curl”
Appendices
Appendix A: Tablature
Appendix B: Glossary; Guitar Information
Appendix C: Contemporary Travis Picking Pieces EXPANDED

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