Description
Martin Taylor shares his expertise in hundreds of fingerstyle guitar lessons including several original tunes. Students in the finger style guitar course have unlimited access to valuable video lessons including guitar fingerpicking lessons and guitar tabs.
What You’ll Learn
What ultimately sets these fingerstyle guitar lessons online apart from other offerings is the ability to submit a video for review using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange Learning® platform. Martin reviews each submission and records a video response, offering specific guidance to take your jazz guitar playing to the next level. All students can access the Video Exchange library and watch each other’s interactions with Martin. This library is constantly expanding and may contain the key to unlock your playing.
Top Quality Guitar Lessons
- 100s of guitar lessons at your own pace
- All levels and styles of playing welcome
- Slow Motion & Looping on videos
About Martin Taylor
Martin Taylor is a Grammy® nominated fingerstyle guitarist, solo jazz guitar virtuoso and online guitar teacher. Martin has collaborated with the biggest names in guitar music including Tommy Emmanuel, Jeff Beck, Chet Atkins, Frank Vignola, Barney Kessell, Earl Klugh, Herb Ellis, Scotty Moore, Julian Lage, Andreas Oberg, Albert Lee, and Laurence Juber. Martin has been awarded two honorary doctorates, a BBC lifetime achievement award, an IAJE Jazz Educators award, and in 2002 he was appointed MBE ‘For Services to Jazz Music’ by the Queen of Great Britain. He has been teaching fingerstyle guitar online with ArtistWorks since 2010.
Fingerstyle Guitar Lessons
+ Introduction To The Martin Taylor Guitar Academy
- Martin’s Welcome to the MTGA
- A Musical Approach to the Guitar Part 1
- A Musical Approach to the Guitar Part 2
- The Flow: The Psychology of Music and the Guitar Part 1
- The Flow: The Psychology of Music and the Guitar Part 2
- Submit a Placement Video
+ Underlying Concepts
- Your Playing Position
- All About Tuning
- Fretboard Orientation
- Introduction to Fingerstyle Playing
- Introduction to the 10ths: The Scaffolding
- 10ths Anchored by the Sixth String
- 10ths Anchored by the Fifth String
- 10ths Anchored by the Fourth String
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Finding Transition Points When Playing the 10ths
- Adding 7ths Anchored by the Sixth String
- Adding 7ths Anchored by the Fifth String
- Adding 7ths Anchored by the Fourth String
- Finding Transition Points When Playing the 7ths
- Moving the 7ths Anchored by the Sixth String
- Moving the 7ths Anchored by the Fifth String
- Moving the 7ths Anchored by the Fourth String
- Finding Transition Points While Moving the 7ths
- Using 10ths with the Minor Scale
- Harmonizing the Major Scale and Chord Progressions
- Introduction to “Satin Doll”
- Adding a Melody to “Satin Doll”
- Applying All You’ve Learned to “Satin Doll”
- Play a Simple Version of “Satin Doll”
- Additional Concepts Found in “Satin Doll”
- Play Another Version of “Satin Doll”
- Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
- Submit a Placement Video
+ Developing Technique & Musicianship
– Developing Technique & Musicianship
+ Learn By Playing Tunes
- Satin Doll Version 1
- Satin Doll Version 2
- True Version 1
- Don’t Get Around Much Anymore
- Sweet Lorraine
- If I Only Had You
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Please
- Martin’s Blues
- I Fall in Love Too Easily
- Chez Fernand
- Georgia on My Mind
- True Version 2
- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- Don’t Know Why
- Like Someone in Love
- I’m Old Fashioned
- Norm
- English Garden
- I’ve Got Rhythm Tune
- My Romance
- My Romance: Version 2
- The Fair Haired Child
- Summertime
- Take Five
- Down At Cocomo’s – NEW!
- One Day – NEW!
- Wild Mountain Thyme – NEW!
- Just Once – NEW!
- Amazing Grace – NEW!
- They Can’t Take That Away From Me – NEW!
- Additional Submitted Songs and Miscellaneous Topics
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Question and Answers
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Miscellaneous Exercises
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Improvisation
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Stella by Starlight
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Bossa Nova Tunes
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Fly Me to The Moon
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Autumn Leaves
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Nearness of You
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Misty
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Holiday Tunes
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: The Girl from Ipanema
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Bluesette
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Untrue
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Nuages
- Other Student Submitted Tunes: Black Orpheus
- Submit a Placement Video
+ Auxiliary Lessons
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Accompanying a Singer–
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Equipment–
+ Guided Arrangements
- Introduction to Guided Arrangements
- Moon River
- Blue Moon
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Serafina
- Over the Rainbow
- The Nearness of You
- Georgia On My Mind
- Misty
- Misty – Simple Barre Chord Version -NEW!
- Smile
- Honeysuckle Rose
- A Certain Smile
- All The Things You Are
- Here’s That Rainy Day
- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
- Two For The Road
- Some Day My Prince Will Come
- Lulu’s Back In Town
- Autumn Leaves – NEW!
- Skylark – NEW!
- They Can’t Take That Away From Me (Guided Arrangement) – NEW!
- Submit a Placement Video
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