Review: Fingerstyle Guitar with Martin Taylor

Tue, 05/01/2018 - 10:08am
Written by ArtistWorks

Dave Schulz is a student in ArtistWorks Fingerstyle Guitar School with Martin Taylor. Read his unfiltered review below. Join Fingerstyle Guitar with Martin Taylor here

Figuring out Fingerstyle Guitar

Fri, 09/23/2016 - 5:59pm
Written by ArtistWorks

What is fingerstyle?

You may have heard the term fingerstyle used synonymously with fingerpicking, but the two are really quite a bit different. Fingerpicking generally involves moving between the thumb on the bass notes and the fingers on treble notes, and builing around patterns for your fingers. These recognizable patterns can be applied to many different kinds of music and sound great. 

Fingerstyle guitar blends bass and treble together, with your fingers and thumb working all of the strings together. Watch fingerstyle guitarist Martin Taylor playing "They Can't Take That Away from Me" in the above video. You can hear bass and treble notes together, with the thumb and the fingers moving across the instrument rather than following distinct patterns.

Acoustic Magazine: Martin Taylor

Thu, 06/16/2016 - 9:43am
Written by MartinT

Acoustic magazine's Summer 2016 Edition featuring interviews with Martin Taylor, Peter Frampton, Tommy Emmanuel, and Clive Carroll is now available.

You can order your copy by going to... http://bit.ly/acoustic_summer

Acoustic magazine's Summer 2016 Edition featuring interviews with Martin Taylor, Peter Frampton, Tommy Emmanuel, and Clive Carroll is now available.

You can order your copy by going to... http://bit.ly/acoustic_summer

Martin Taylor Milestone

Thu, 04/14/2016 - 12:12pm
Written by ArtistWorks

"It's amazing to be able to reach out to so many people around the globe." - Martin Taylor

Today marks the 6th anniversary of the day that we first launched Online Fingerstyle Guitar with Martin Taylor. Since April 2010, he has recorded over 2600 Video Exchanges with students in over 50 countries - and he's having a blast. Watch this video where he talks about how it's been going, you'll also hear from some of his students about this unique online learning experience. 

To mark this milestone we have just released 13 new fingerstyle guitar lessons from Martin which were recorded recently in the ArtistWorks studio. Many of these came specially requested by his students so be sure to check them out in the Lessons area. Here is a list of what's new broken down by section: