Originally Posted by: mjgodinI 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
You're describing what I'm thinking. except I think voicings will come into play at some point, but it is fine for me because, for example: If I learn an arrangement that has some chord voicings, I wouldn't have issues with them as I can see how chords come into a fingerstyle arrangement. It would be more fun to learn chords and voicings along with what I'm interested in(fingerstyle) instead of just learning all about the chords which I'm not interested in(yet).
