I think the confusion here is how he is defining finger style guitar. I think of finger style as fingerpicking. Whereas your thumb hits a base note and then the index, middle, and ring pluck an assigned string in a particular pattern. This is what Lisa and Anders teach in their acoustic courses and I have been through most of it up to acoustic level 2 and I have yet to NOT use chords so I know no way around it. That's traditionally what finger style guitar is at least to my limited knowledge. If he's talking about lead guitar soloing then that's another area of study where scales and fretboard knowledge comes into play. So Benjamin could you clarify the type of playing you want to do and we or some others could better steer you in the right direction. [br][br]

Moe