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True Finger Independence - Become a Guitar Master (Udemy.com)

Play the Guitar without Effort

Created by: Lucas Cesar de Oliveira Imbiriba

Last updated June 2019

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What you will learn

  • how to play without effort
  • true finger independence
  • how to play fast
  • how to play with the fingers
  • slurs
  • hammer on
  • pull off
  • apoyando (rest stroke)
  • tirando (free stroke)
  • semi apoyando (semi rest stroke)
  • how to develop your guitar skills quickly
  • 3 fingers scales
  • guitar
  • acoustic guitar
  • fingerstyle

How it compares

Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 46% of them
  • Reviews196#83 of 184 by number of reviews
  • Length1.5 hoursshorter than 84% of them
  • Last updatedJune 2019earlier than 67% of them

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Course Description

This course is meant to both begginers and professional guitar players of all musical styles. Wether you play Rock'n'Roll, Pop, Jazz, Flamenco, Classical or Fingerstyle Guitar, this course will teach you the secret behind playing the guitar without effort and how to quickly develop your skills.

The "True Finger Independence - Become a Guitar Master" course is based on a few specific techniques inherited from some of the greatest Flamenco and Classical guitar masters of Spain, who unveilled the secret behind playing the guitar without effort. The True Finger Independence (TFI) technique consists of mastering how to control each and every muscle responsible for the movent of both hands and fingers in order to achieve maximum ease and speed while performing the guitar.

When it comes to Fingerpicking Techniques as well as the specific Left Hand Techniques, the Independent Muscular Perception (IMP) comes into action allowing you to understand how to move one finger at a time without activating any other muscle of your hand, improving considerably the sensation of comfort and easiness while perfoming any piece of music at all.

This course is divided in two parts, which are:

1) TFI applied to the Left Hand technique

   - Pressing

   - Hammer on

   - Pull off

   - Hand, wrist and elbow positioning

2) TFI applied to the Right Hand technique:

  - Fingerpicking Techniques (Free Stroke, Rest Stroke, Semi Rest Stroke)

  - Arpeggio Technique

  - 2 Fingers Scale Technique

  - 3 Fingers Scale Technique


In each of the topics presented in the "True Finger Independence - Become a Guitar Master" course there is an emphasis on how to apply the TFI on each of the techniques listed above. Also, some very important Tips about General Guitar Technique will be explained in order to create a shortcut to the secrets behind playing the guitar in a highly professional level.

This course was developed by internationally awarded Brazilian guitarist Lucas Imbiriba, winner of 13 Guitar Competition Prizes worldwide.  After 18 years in an intense musical career, perfoming over more than twenty countries in four continents, Mr. Imbiriba shares his knowledge and secrets on how to develop your guitar skills at the highest level.


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Instructor Details

Lucas Cesar de Oliveira Imbiriba

CURRICULUM VITAE

STUDIES


Lucas Imbiriba starts his guitar studies at the age of 10 at the Conservatório Carlos Gomes (Brazil) having lessons with Antonio Carlos and Salomão Habib. After finishing his conservatory studies in 2001, he is admitted at the Pará State University (UEPA) with Aloisio Laurindo Junior and Sydney Molina.

In 2002 he moves to Barcelona (Spain) to have lessons with Iliana Matos, at the Escola Luthier. After being admitted at the ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Barcelona) he studies with Zoran Dukic and Àlex Garrobé.


In 2006 he moves to Germany to study his Meisterklass Diplom with Prof. Franz Halasz at the Nürnberg-Augsburg Musik Hochschule, concluding it in 2008 with highest marks. In 2009 he started a Master in Classical Guitar with Prof. Mathias Seidel at the Mozarteum University, in Salzburg, concluding it in 2011.


Since 2014 he works as a Professor at the Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil, teaching classical and folk guitar.


SOME OF HIS AWARDS IN MUSIC COMPETITIONS


-1st prize in the IX Souza Lima guitar competition (SP-Brasil, 1998),

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Reviews

4.6

196 ratings on Udemy

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By Wolfgang Kraus on 9/12/2024

Lucas ist mein absoluter Lieblingsgitarrist und wie er hier zeigt ein großartiger Lehrer. In diesem Kurs vermittelt er die Grundlagen seiner atemberaubenden Spieltechnik. Mich würde seine Einschätzung interessieren, inwieweit sich die behandelten Techniken für die rechte Hand umsetzen lassen, wenn man nicht mit Fingernägeln spielt. Jeder weitere Kurs über seine Betrachtung des Gitarrenspiels wäre eine große Bereicherung für alle Gitarristinnen und Gitarristen.

By Christopher Munoz on 6/27/2024

I've been playing the acoustic for several years now and this finger exercise feels like it just came to me naturally. I enjoyed the experience so far.

By Daniel Bixler on 5/1/2024

This is a great course. The exercises seem simple, but they are very effective and more difficult than they first appear. Stick with it and you will really improve your guitar playing. Lucas is a great teacher. He carefully and patiently explains everything and goes through it with you slowly so you can get used to doing the exercises. The exercises slowly build up your ability and improve your hand relaxation and independent finger control.

By Kamil Glapiński on 2/20/2024

Great course, each exercise is explained slowly and thoroughly. I returned to playing the guitar after a long break and thanks to the course I was able to remember the exercises I once played at music school.

By Bogdan Radacina on 2/12/2024

I would have liked to see the techniques applied in some actual music passages. Going up and down the scales is good for practice, but some musical passages would have made the course way more enjoyable.

By Urbano Burriola on 2/25/2023

Everything about this lesson is an incredible insight of the methods from his own and I love it. I wanna be the next bawler guitarist like this bawler!

By Franz Hutcheson on 6/4/2022

The first technique exercise is new to me, but seems simple but disconnected to my usual plying style, and as such question it’s worth.

By Gregory Vazquez on 5/24/2022

I would have included more samples of Lucas practicing as if we were a fly on the wall. It would have only added 15 minutes. Five minutes illustrating how he would practice one technique then another and then another. Through watching him practice the student would just apply it to all the other techniques. He may believe he was doing that when he was walking us through the scales but he was not. People would like to see and need to see as verification him actually practicing as if no one were watching.

By Erik Norberg on 5/5/2022

I have played guitar for a long time, but just for fun. I think I have a lot to reconstruct to be a better player. I was 58 years old when I began and is on my 73rd, but I will try... I think, first of all, that he is exceptionally as a guitarist, and I trust that what he said initially is the correct way to go. I am absolutely convinced about that!

By Sven Petersson on 4/1/2021

Bin Anfänger und habe mit Buch und YouTube meine ersten Versuche gemacht, aber es war sehr anstrengend. Mir taten nach kurzer Zeit die Finger und das Handgelenk weh, weil alles so verkrampft war. Ich habe mich hierauf voll eingelassen und freue mich, dass alles sehr viel leichter geht. Es macht richtig Spaß, weil es eben auch ohne Anstrengung geht. Ich habe in so kurzer Zeit wirklich sehr viel gelernt und weiß, dass mich diese Techniken für die Zukunft begleiten werden. Wenn es noch mehr Kurse gäbe, würde ich diese auch sofort kaufen. Vielen Dank für diese Erfahrung

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