Congrats on the new guitar
Keep it simple. Pick a finger style “style” and stick with it until you’re happy. If you start jumping around from paul Simon style to john hurt style you’re gonna get frustrated. You really need to get your thumb technique down.
I like to take a tune like the stones’ dear doctor and play it finger style. It’s a simple blues progression with a melody you recognize and can adhere to that gives you a foundation or structure to practice finger style technique
All your past experience will help but if guitar is new to you, not being fluid with your chord changes will hamper your development. Make sure you can easily play all chords in open position and stay down there until you have your thumb technique down
Here’s a good free lesson to start with. Don’t worry about the thumb pick. If your comfortable with it I highly recommend it but I’ve never used one except with banjo
https://youtu.be/u0ocjT3gObE
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Originally Posted by LWJ
Well,
On a wild hair, I went out and grabbed a sweet OM-21. Considering that my guitar playing has always been marginal and my bass playing is mostly decades in the past. It was a little bit out of character for me.
Whatever. I did it.
I intend to learn fingerstyle blues. The reference above from Ramonesfreak is noted. He was very enthused about it. What else should I look at? I have a strong theory foundation and played jazz, classical, rock, blues, surf and punk in my past. My intent is to do something that works my brain. This is a pre-retirement strategy. I also despise reading music.
TIA!
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