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If you wait to truly master something before moving on, it will take literally forever to make much progress. Once you've learned something fairly well, it's good to take the next step. It's also good to come back to things again and again. I've found that with most learning, it's a process of 2 steps forward one step back. This let's you keep learning ...

Steel strings are under higher tension than nylon, so, whether they are round-wound, flat-wound or taped, they will still require greater pressure to fret and pick. You can go to a lighter gauge, which will reduce the pressure needed, but your sound will become brighter, and the bass response of the guitar will be reduced; you're moving less metal, which ...

In order to sweep-pick, you need to have both an up- and a down-stroke. Fingerstyle bass really only has upstrokes (with the fingers). I think the closest you could get to actual sweep picking on bass would be to imitate Victor Wooten's double-thumb slap technique. In this technique, he uses his thumb sort of like a pick. He slaps the string in a ...

The first thing you want to work is the independence between your thumb and fingers. There is a video of Tommy Emmanuel on Youtube explaining how to do this, and it's actually what got me started. Back ago, I wrote some sort of thumbpicking tutorial, in Portuguese (with examples in a SoundCloud set), which tells you to do more or less the same things that ...

I don't know of anything that will target Sungha Jung's style specifically, but I don't see that as a problem. There are a few skills you need (in my opinion) to become a good fingerstyle guitarist, and if you master them you'll be able to mimic Sungha Jung or develop your own style: Play bass and melody independently Change quickly between chords Learn ...

The basic idea of a sweep picking is that you don't go past your next note. It's more like slow strumming. This allows you to pick much faster than with alternate picking, but it only is applicable if each picked note is on the next string (either up or down). Note that you can play multiple notes per string with hammer ons and pull offs. To experiment ...

I try to sort of press enough to "hook" into a portion of my callus, and then I can pull at a more upward angle, maybe 50º or so. If done too hard, the string'll buzz against the fret for the first few vibrations, but that's the only negative I've found. However guitar's a secondary instrument for me, so I don't play as much as I wish; you may have much ...

Start by imitating people whose style you like. Then you can use what you learn when you're making your own music. I listened to the video you posted and here is what I hear: Basic 2-beat pattern for 7 measures (if in 2/4) Simple fill (one note at a time, 3 or 4 notes in a row) for 1 measure Repeat with a different basic pattern I heard the following ...

Rasgueado works for a lot of metal. I do a fair bit on some of our songs where we kill the distortion but want to keep some power in the rhythm. It sounds much fatter, while keeping sharp attack, as all five nails can hit the strings in very quick succession. It also can give really fast strums, which may be difficult using other techniques.

When I play this, or other parts like it..going from finger picking to a strum, I just put my thumb and first finger together, LIKE I'm holding a pick and just use my fingertips. I have short nails too, but there's enough to get a good sounding strum. Or I kind of drag all my fingertips, nails touching the strings.

Presumably you're doing this practice in order to learn the skills involved in the exercise. If you move on and lose the skill, the whole endeavour was pointless. Even an 80% reproduction rate is pretty low so I don't think you are getting good enough at the exercise before moving on. Of course this depends on how absolute your definition of "perfect" is. ...

Even with very short fingernails, there'll still be a difference between your upstroke and your downstroke. The sides of your fingernails striking the strings will make your downstroke more percussive than your upstroke, which will produce a tone that's a little softer than the upstroke. Neither will produce as crisp a sound as a pick. With no pick, I ...

Don't break apart the different rhythms and practice them individually. At this stage, it's more effective if you don't think of yourself playing two separate parts simultaneously. Instead, think of playing one part that happens to have two or more notes at a time and start slowly. For example, here's a typical Travis-picking bass-and-lead bit on a C ...

You're correct about the ornament in green: the 5th fret note (an E) just before the 7th fret note (an F#) is called a grace note, and it is to meant to be a very short note played in anticipation of the main note (the F#). How short is "very short"? That's up to you. As for the indication in red: the 'g.' indicates a glissando, meaning a slide from the ...

As noted in the music, this looks like Bm7 played at the 7th fret, and then a slide and lift movement to G in the "open position." While this makes sense for the 2nd ornament, this makes the first ornament appear more difficult, but the fifth fret on the B string is the "same note" as the open E string. This means that instead of a hammer on from 5 to 7 on ...

When you perform a pulloff, the cleanest sound will come from pulling across the fretboard, so you should aim to move your finger in this direction at first (or close to it), however you need to rapidly change this into a movement away from the fretboard if you want to avoid the next string. Things that can make this easier: Keeping your fingers vertical ...

I started to learn fingerpicking with "la méthode de guitare à Dadi", Marcel Dadi was one of the best fingerpickers I know, he also played with Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed. His book is very well done and covers a wide range of picking styles and techniques, with well chosen examples ranging from Doc Watson, Atkins, traditional blues, jazz or the Beatles. ...

My guitar teacher recommended to me the following book/dvd once: Tipps, Tricks und Licks. It's dual language (german and english). You can have a look at some example videos.

I play fingerstyle on steel strings, have for many years. I keep my nails about the same as would a classical guitarist; just long enough to break across the string as the stroke is made. It's a combination of nail and flesh that classical players find produces the best tone, and I find it works very well for steel string as well. No nail at all results in ...

There are many ways you can strum when fingerpicking. I guess you are not using your nails but your fingers when playing the rest of the song so in that case you will want some mellowsounding strums. Use your middle and ring finger for the downstrum and your index finger for your upstrum. As for the video lesson this should be sufficient.. If you want to ...