Fingerstyle Guitar STEP BY STEP: Learn Songs & Arrangements (Udemy.com)
Learn To Play Fingerstyle Guitar! A practical learning method with REAL well-known songs and arrangements
Created by: Nir Mehlman
Last updated February 2026
What you will learn
- Learn to play REAL actual well known beautiful fingerstyle and folk songs
- Learn a great method for learning a new tune
- Learn to play songs arrangements for fingerstyle guitar
- Learn many picking patterns you'll be able to use in many songs
- Learn how to arrange tunes for fingerstyle guitar
- Learn chords in different positions
How it compares
Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 46% of them
- Reviews1,312#12 of 184 by number of reviews
- Length13.4 hourslonger than 93% of them
- Last updatedFebruary 2026more recently than 91% of them
Course Description
Learning is a process of taking the impossible and making it possible, this 13-hour course is like many private lessons. If you’ll follow closely, and play slowly, again and again, the movements will eventually get into your body and fingers, and then it happens, we can play the thing that we couldn’t play before.
And that exactly how I teach in this course, slowly and repetitively.
So take your time, play, and it will happen.
I hope I manage to deliver you my love for fingerstyle guitar and music.
The course 1st section is: TECHNIQUES AND FUNDAMENTALS needed in order to play fingerstyle guitar.
The 2nd section is an EXERCISE - PICKING PATTERNS section with many exercises that will lead the way to play fingerstyle songs and arrangements.
And, a SIX TUNE SECTION, with REAL songs and arrangements that will take your playing to the next level. It is a really wide repertoire, from a classic tune, through folk blues songs, another fingerstyle arrangements for two beautiful songs, and another blues song for the swing.
Another Very important section is the "HOW TO LEARN METHOD" section, in which I explain and walk through 5 GUIDELINES FOR LEARNING AND SUCCEEDING in learning a new tune. A guidelines that I use my self and with my students. Also in my teachings here I show exactly how to use them and how to practice and play.
A bonus section that I added to the course is The Four Steps For Making Your Own Fingerstyle Arrangement, in which I explore the ways and steps for creating beautiful arrangements.
Hope to see you inside the course.
All the songs used in this course are by permission by ACUM Israel.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
1,312 Reviews
Nir Mehlman
Born in Dimona, A small city in the south of Israel. Started playing the guitar a the age of 12.5, and since then never put it down. Learned classical guitar at the local conservatorium, and contemporary music and blues with local guitar teachers. At first, I loved to learn the songs of The Beatles. A turning point in my guitar playing was when I discovered folk music, and the beauty of fingerstyle guitar, with artists like Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Nick Drake, Tommy Emmanuel, and more.
Since then (about 16 years ago), I have mainly played fingerstyle guitar, I compose and arrange for fingerstyle guitar and love it very much.
In the last ten years, I mainly taught guitar playing, from kids to adults, I try to reveal them to the magic of guitar playing and the magic of acoustic and fingerstyle guitar, many of my students buying acoustic guitars which for me is a great achievement.
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Reviews
By Norman McFadden on 2/24/2025
This course, for me is unbelievable. I'm 71 years old and have been messing with guitar since forever. I have been stuck in the intermediate stage mainly because what i learn never seems to stick with me. I can play pretty much anything from sheet music or tab but never had a list of memorized songs. Working through this course the music is transported into my brain and muscle memory like no other method i have ever tried. I am so thankful to have discovered these lessons and plan to study everything Nir makes available. Thank you again. Norman McFadden
By Miguel Angel Aguilar Cuesta on 2/13/2024
For me in particular, the course was very basic. The tabs he provided at least for the while my guitar gently weeps, was not in a nice format.
By Bob McCabe on 12/21/2023
Excellent teacher. He purposely makes us to a lot of exercises that allow the student to be able to work the fingers and thumbs independent of each other. The finger style approach can not be realized until the students fingers and thumb movements are independent of each other. It takes lots of time to get the plasticity of our brains needs time to develop the level of thumb and finger separation which finger style guitar playing requires. Excellent teacher. There is little wasted time during the entire course. It is very well focused on learning this method. i would rate this course as 5.0, it is well focused. Thank you very much.
By Antònia Valentín on 7/6/2023
The teacher is very methodical. It is an intense course. It is helping me to learn fingerstyle. The exercises in the first sections are very helpful. The songs he has chosen are beautiful, although I don't think they are in order of difficulty, but that doesn't matter, since you can do them in the order you want. I would only advise incorporating a metronome during practical classes. Thank you very much Nir for this fantastic course!
By Anirban Banerjee on 10/28/2022
I am a adult learner who picked up guitar quite a while back but never invested myself as never felt that motivated and as a result was only able to play cowboy cords in a sloppy manner in a few basic rhythms with quite some errors. Thanks to courses on Udemy and particularly this course which taught me how to play finger style guitar and feel confident that if I stay focused I shall be able to play this style in fashion someday. Nir Mehlman, thank you a ton for this course. You are an amazing instructor with lots of patience and you know how to prepare and inspire others to play finger style guitar, that too in a quite and enthralling way of your own. Thank you, thank you and thank you again. If anyone wants to learn finger style guitar please follow this course from a to z in order, take your time, believe in yourself and keep at it as Nir mentioned in this course. You will definitely see positive results.
By Michelet Guerrier on 10/16/2022
Great course with great instructor and method. The way he presents the lessons makes it very understandable and easier to digest the learning. As a learner, consistent practice and discipline are important to fully benefit from this instruction. The fact that the instructor provides lots of repetition with every chunk of an exercise is super interesting in terms of patience, persistence needed to develop the technical skills to play. I have learned a lot and I believe I'll keep learning beyond thanks to the foundation gained from this course. Millions of thanks
By Hobie Anthony on 11/22/2020
Loving this Etude. Looking forward to more.
By Thanh Ngo on 11/15/2020
Excellent pace. Everything is great so far. Thank you.
By Leonard DeFrank on 11/11/2020
I am coming back into playing guitar after many years of being away from it. I started playing in the late '60s. It has been great discipline and very challenging. At times I thought of giving up when I had a difficult time. But I found that it was best to put it down and come back to it later. I am looking forward to mastering these songs.
By JASON DERR on 11/8/2020
Although I know much of the preliminary course info. I still find the tips useful and relevant. Video quality is great. Instructor presentation is great. I feel that I will pick up a few things that will make me a better guitarist; if that happens I'll be satisfied.
By Andrew Balgoa on 11/1/2020
Very good! I like how he teaches the songs in a step-by-step approach. I how you can teach other songs like pop and rnb.
By Herbert Kaptein on 10/25/2020
So far so nice so good!
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