Vintage Club #35 with Richard | Fingerstyle - Steady, Alternating Thumb

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:guitar: Join Richard to enhance your fingerstyle skills! Learn and develop the alternating thumb technique, used in countless folk, country and acoustic songs.

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Hi all - how is the steady alternating thumb learning and practice going? Itโ€™s been very quiet โ€ฆ was it not a popular topic or are you all good with it already, no questions to ask and would be ready to progress?

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it was a great topicโ€“just putting it to practice.

Hi Richard! I think this takes a bit longer to get your brain to follow the intent, then more time to get fingers to cooperate. When I was learning the fundamentals of Smokestack Lightninโ€™ it took me over a week to get it basically working, but then it progressed quickly.

I reviewed the lesson this morning (I didnโ€™t make the class, at work) and this will take me about a week to get comfortable even after being able to do some of this on other songs. Donโ€™t get too concerned if folks take a little longer.

It might be handy to make it obvious that the lesson link is the youtube video, not the link to the live class. Just a quick edit of your text should do.

A brilliant lesson has renewed my interest in fingerstyle. The timing was perfect, too, because my alaska picks and thumb picks arrived last week and Iโ€™m starting to learn fingerpicking all over again, as I briefly mentioned in my LL.
Thanks, Richard. Iโ€™m really looking forward to more sessions on fingerpicking.

I was traveling for work Richard, will watch it over the weekend and give it a go! Thanks for doing these!