Nudge towards a Country/Folk Immersion Course

@MAT1953
Yes, sorry, I meant Grade 3. I’ve been working on fingerstyle for a few songs for a while (almost a year), including Richard’s Vintage Club Dust in the Wind fingerstyle lessons. I’m still not very good, but definitely seeing progress and loving the sounds I can make. Now that I know about the Grade 5 fingerstyle module I’ll probably take an early peek at those lessons and see what I can learn.

I like rock too. I’m probably not ready for that immersion course yet either (I’m still terrible at power chords, and have trouble getting motivated to practice them because it makes me sad to hear myself sounding like a wounded cat), but I’ll get there eventually.

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haha, I can very well relate to that! :slight_smile:
Did those when it came up with Justin’s course and practiced a bit, but for a long time I didn’t like power chords because I couldn’t play them well. But by getting back to them just every now and then and practicing just a bit made it work a little better over time. Now I am really glad that I can have as much fun with the electric as with my acoustic (or nearly?).

Me too, I am generally following Justin’s course in the normal order, but I also did this and think it’s a good idea to look for things that you really love using the search function and to not be scared checking out lessons much later in the course.

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@MAT1953, I know it is bad form to point folks toward other materials, but since there is a bit of a void here I will share this with you:
https://www.youtube.com/@activemelody/search?query=folk
Brian over at ActiveMelody has a number of excellent tutorials including unaccompanied guitar (not to be confused with solo) lessons. If folk/country is your bag, I suggest joining as his content and learning tools are really exceptional

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yeah active melody has some great material

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Clint @CT
I know about the course you mention, as some at the guitar club follow him. I did look into it a while ago but at the time I felt what was being taught was way above my then current ability.
There are others out there that do a lot of fingerstyle lessons, perhaps Justin needs to develop that form of playing as I am sure there will be a lot out there that would be interested .
Michael

True ! fingerstyle is currently the most requested lesson on the feedback hub https://www.justinguitar.com/feedback

The solo blues fingerstyle course is a great step in that direction but I understand other styles would be welcome well. :slightly_smiling_face:

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