Comments on: Great Fingerstyle Guitarists: 1-Hour Guided YouTube Tour

By: Michael Jae

Michael Jae — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:03:53 +0000

Hey Shimter, I’ve never heard of Don Adler before. Now I’m hooked! I really like the style of playing in that video and seems pretty unique to me. Has maybe a little of a Chet Atkins/Merle Travis flair to it but very original to my ears at the same time. Thanks man!

By: Shimter

Shimter — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:39:28 +0000

check out this guy no gimmicks just straight kick ass fingerpicking in std tuning, he has lots of other videos with gimmicks that are also really great, he just recently won the guitar superstar contest using just an acoustic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8OMPAZy1iA

By: Fischer-Dieskau

Fischer-Dieskau — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:37:37 +0000

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

By: oink

oink — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:14:59 +0000

no love for chet?

By: GUITARLESSONS

GUITARLESSONS — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:41:24 +0000

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

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:45:34 +0000

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

By: insomn

insomn — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:44:29 +0000

Buckethead is the greatest. Period.

By: Adam H.

Adam H. — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:52:47 +0000

Check out Joe Pass and Charlie Hunter.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:40:12 +0000

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

By: Michael Jae

Michael Jae — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:24:58 +0000

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

By: The Tiler

The Tiler — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:44:58 +0000

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

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:02:39 +0000

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.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:25:14 +0000

Hey Michael,

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

Thanks

Ken

By: Michael Jae

Michael Jae — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:43:01 +0000

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!

By: Dan Ryan

Dan Ryan — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:34:23 +0000

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

By: Clive

Clive — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:36:44 +0000

Really enjoyed the tour – inspirational, thanks