Best Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Channels on YouTube – Part I

There’s an amazing amount of great fingerstyle guitar players on YouTube.  Sometimes they inspire me, and sometimes they make me want to hang up my guitar and walk away.  But I have to say that, regardless of how I feel, crusing YouTube for great players is never boring.  And I always come away with a new tune I want to learn.

Part I – A Focus on Players

Part I of the “Best Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Channels on YouTube” series focuses on big name players.  It’s calculated by sheer volume of views on an overall channel (versus on a given video) with some discretionary editing to account for taste.  The series will continue in the next weeks to include some more players, a list of record labels, and a final ‘best of’.

Jump to:

Best Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Channels on YouTube – Part II
Best Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Channels on YouTube – Part III

But maybe you think there’s some other players or topics who should be listed in the meantime?  Let me know in the comments below.

1.  Sungha Jung – 18 yr old South Korean guitar prodigy.
Website:  www.sunghajung.com
YouTube Channel:  www.youtube.com/user/jwcfree

 

2.  Igor Presnyakov – One time classical guitarist, sometime hard-rock guitarist, now an amazing Russian fingerstyle master of YouTube.
Website:  www.igorpresnyakov
YouTube Channel:  www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres

 

3.  Andy McKee – Guitar player phenomenon who is currently heading the Guitar Master series, producing new music, and founding a record label.

Website:  www.andymckee.com
YouTube Channel:  www.youtube.com/user/andymckeeVEVO

 

4.  Antoine Dufour – Canadian fingerstyle guitarist, winner of several world class guitar competitions, with an amazing technical mastery of the guitar.

Website:  www.antoinedufourmusic.com
YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/AntoineDufour

 

5.  Adam Rafferty – A New York born guitarist who started in jazz and was converted to fingerstyle by the eminent Tommy Emmanuel.

Website:  www.adamrafferty.com
YouTube Channel:  www.youtube.com/user/crescentridge

 

Did I miss a good one?  Let me know in the comments below.