Great Fingerstyle Guitarists: 1-Hour Guided YouTube Tour

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   Fischer-Dieskau / June 6, 2010

   I enjoyed the post, it’s really good, very useful Thank you.

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   oink / August 29, 2009

   no love for chet?

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   GUITARLESSONS / May 15, 2009

   very nice tour- several guitarist no longer have feeds on the tube

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   Sean / February 19, 2009

   I’m surprised that Mark Knopfler’s not on the list – he plays almost exclusively fingerstyle.

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   insomn / February 14, 2009

   Buckethead is the greatest. Period.

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   Adam H. / February 5, 2009

   Check out Joe Pass and Charlie Hunter.

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   Patrick / December 5, 2007

   Some more that people might want to check out,
   Andy McKee
   Antoine Dufour
   Robert Taylor
   Don Alder
   Craig D’Andrea

   most of these artists are accessible through the CandyRat record label that uses the username “rpoland” on youtube

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   Michael Jae / September 11, 2007

   Hi everyone, the guitarist Justin King was just brought to my attention. More amazing tapping techniques. Check him out here:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtEWhhK3Va4

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   The Tiler / August 12, 2007

   YouTube ! “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUecUkK2AAs

   Please, if you get a chance. Listen to some acoustical fingerpicking.

   I have over 215 pieces of fingerstyle music I make available for free !!!!!

   Just Google “The Tiler + Guitar”

   Or go to one of many music websites i’ve uploaded tons of my music at!!!
   http://www.macjams.com/artist/thetiler

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    Charlie / July 29, 2007

    Excellent stuff. As soon as I saw a link to Little Martha, I knew I would like this stuff. One of the real pluses about the internet, and sites like YouTube in particular is that such wonderful music can be shared so easily.

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    Ken / July 28, 2007

    Hey Michael,

    What an excellent selection of outstanding guitar performances! I thoroughly enjoyed to show – especially Eric Mongrain…

    Thanks

    Ken

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    Michael Jae / July 24, 2007

    Thanks for your contribution Dan. I’m glad you enjoyed the tour. That’s a great video! I hadn’t thought about Doyle. Bit of a funny story though since you mentioned him. I met him a few years ago after a performance. The man plays so many notes I literally couldn’t believe how he could remember them all. He seemed to posses some secret super power. So, I had to ask him how he remembered the sheer volume of music. His response was basically he doesn’t know, he just does, but he practices a lot. One inspiration that I took from him was this technique he has of retuning a string in the middle of a song to change the key of the song. He does it quickly and accurately without interrupting the song. I thought that was so clever I worked it into one of my own compositions. Thanks again. Cheers!

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    Dan Ryan / July 24, 2007

    You’ve chosen some wonderful guitarists for your guided tour, but have left out maybe the greatest fingerstyle guitarist there is – Doyle Dykes.

    He, Leo Kottke, and Dan Crary are the only signature guitarists for Taylor guitars.

    If you just Google his name and select Videos, you’ll find a number of video performances to which you can direct your visitors.

    Here’s one link, just to whet your appetite:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2959003909620525801&q=doyle+dykes&total=162&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=7

    Thanks for the great site!

    - DR

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    Clive / July 24, 2007

    Really enjoyed the tour – inspirational, thanks

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