Similkameen Dreams Studio provides finger style guitar lessons - beginner and intermediate (folk pattern picking, flamenco rasguado, country thumb and fingers brush, arpeggiated patterns, Travis picking, melody over chords, folk baroque, classical technique); computer electronic notation (software, midi, composition); and, creative song improvisation techniques.

Playing the Guitar

There are a number of practical considerations in playing a guitar. These include:

  1. Choosing an instrument
  2. Tuning the guitar
  3. Holding the guitar
  4. Strumming
  5. Chording
  6. Scales
  7. Playing riffs
  8. Flat-picking
  9. Finger-picking
  10. Choosing a pick
  11. Fingernails and fingerpicks
  12. Tuning the guitar
  13. Buying a tuner
  14. How to practice
  15. Choice of repertoire
  16. Finding music
  17. Use of a metronome
  18. Playing with others
  19. Singing and playing
  20. Improvising
  21. and so on.

Over time, I will attempt to give some tips on each of these topics.