Classical Guitar Finger-Picking: Right Hand Arpeggios (Udemy.com)
Learn how to pick with your right hand fingers accurately and confidently with this easy- to- follow course
Created by: Brian Riggs
Last updated January 2016
What you will learn
- Play the guitar strings with your right-hand fingers, using one the most common and important musical textures
- Sound like 2 guitar players playing at the same time by playing a melody and a background texture at the same time
- Use common techniques that are the stock-in-trade of all serious classical and finger-style guitarists
How it compares
Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 27% of them
- Reviews37#163 of 184 by number of reviews
- Length2.2 hoursshorter than 70% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2016earlier than 92% of them
Course Description
This is a short, easy-to-follow course where you will learn how to use your right hand fingers to pluck the strings in a variety of musical contexts so that you'll be able to play the pieces that you love with accuracy and confidence.
The sounds and the music that you can make on the guitar with your right-hand fingers is beautiful and complex, but that doesn't mean that playing with your right-hand needs to be complicated or difficult. You'll start by learning the most important principles of using your right hand fingers to play, and by then gradually building on these skills, you'll be able to play guitar better and express yourself with more interesting and complex music.
You're going to really enjoy this course if you would like:
- to start playing guitar with your right-hand fingers
- to learn the correct way to play the strings with your right-hand fingers and avoid bad habits
- to learn how to sound like 2 people at once by playing a melody and a finger-picked accompaniment at the same time
- to impress others with your ability to play guitar music that's sounds more challenging and interesting
The premise of the course is straightforward, that if you want to play music that has more than 1 part going on at a time, then it's necessary to use your right hand fingers to play the strings. The most common way to use your right-hand fingers to finger-pick on the guitar is to play an arpeggio. In the course, you'll learn what that means and you'll see there doesn't need to be anything difficult or stressful about that, and you don't need any special background or skills to learn how to finger-pick.
You'll start by learning the basics of playing an arpeggio with your right-hand fingers, then you'll move on to playing an arpeggio pattern while you have a melody playing at the same time, first in the highest voice, and then in the lowest voice. You'll move on to some useful picking patterns and approaches, and you'll wrap up with a bonus section on a more challenging technique called tremolo.
By the end of the course, you and everyone who listens to you play will be able to hear a difference as you play music that sounds more complex and interesting.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
37 Reviews
Brian Riggs
My name is Brian Riggs and I am a classical guitarist and guitar teacher from Chicago, IL. I have a degree in classical guitar performance from the Chicago College of Performing Arts, and I've played in master classes with some amazing guitarists, most notably Christopher Parkening at his class at Montana State University.
I want to share what I've learned from those experiences with as many people as possible; Some of my most satisfying musical experiences have been seeing students make progress and become musicians in their own right. I've taught thousands of lessons in person and I've had the great experience of helping people fulfill their musical goals and realizing their potential as guitarists.
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Reviews
By Martin Kirstein on 9/26/2024
Well presented. Clear, simple and to the point. Even an older beginner like me can understand
By EMBERT-JAN van Uitregt on 10/16/2023
This teacher is clear and give quick response to answers.
By Student Learning on 2/20/2022
Learnt a ton on techniques that I wasn't aware of.
By Eric Paul Rajendran on 11/17/2017
Good way of explaining for Beginners onwards. I fingerpick for years now, so for me it was basic. Having said that, the Instructor is right to assume that everyone in the course may not be proficient fingerpickers
By Henry Glen on 7/25/2017
interesting and challenging - i think a slower pace of teaching ,i.e vocal delivery would be helpful - certainly to me
By Olivermcrehan@yahoo.ie Crehan on 7/6/2017
very good course.
By Bernhard Cheong on 4/24/2017
Thanks Brian, you are very encouraging and good at teaching guitar. thank you very much! You are a very good teacher. Explained lessons clearly and patiently! Bernhard Cheong
By Stephen Thompson on 1/10/2017
Because his explanations are clear, and his demonstrations of the technique was very good.
By George Marley on 12/27/2016
excellent course. Bob
By Dexter Picardal on 1/20/2016
I would like to comment on the material presented on Lecture 4: Study Piece on planting and ascending arpeggios and suggest what needs to be improved. I find the music sheet not suitable for those who are still beginner classical guitarist and still on the way of learning arpeggio patterns for the first time. The chord patterns are a bit complex. Howbeit, we can help the beginner students in learning this material if the we add the below details on the music sheet. 1. Indication of Left Hand Fingering - so that beginner students would know what fingers in left hand is needed to use to form the chords used in this lesson. 2. Indication of Right Hand Fingering - please include what arpeggio pattern to use. Is it PMI, PIM, PMA and so on. Prior in purchasing this course, I am using Carcassi Classical Guitar Method Op.59 and I noticed those details added by Matteo Carcassi in his Arpeggio Lessons. Mauro Guilanni also indicated the right hand fingerings used in his 120 Studies as well. Overall, it's a good course , and there are things we can still improve. Hope you consider the suggestion and let me know if the music sheets presented on this course will be updated with the details requested. Thanks!
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