• MBE
  • Honorary Doctorate, University of Paisley

Fingerstyle Guitar with Martin Taylor

Legendary fingerstyle guitarist taught his complete approach to chord melody, swing, and solo jazz guitar.

4.7 from 11 reviews

About this school

300+
Video lessons
60+ hours
Content
Adv Beginner - Advanced
Skill range
2,000+
Video exchanges

About this course

Martin Taylor has created a comprehensive video library that includes hundreds of fingerstyle guitar lessons, exclusive performances, and interviews. Students have unlimited access to all these online guitar lessons plus guitar tabs, backing tracks, and other study materials. What makes these fingerstyle guitar lessons truly unique is that this is the only place online preserving the teaching feedback of Martin Taylor through the library of videos submitted by students using the ArtistWorks Video Exchange Learning® platform. Martin reviewed each submission and recorded a video response, offering specific guidance to the student to take their guitar playing to the next level. All students can access the Video Exchange library and watch these interactions with Martin. This library is comprehensive and may contain the key to unlock your playing.

What you’ll learn

  • Chord melody
  • Fingerstyle jazz
  • Swing & groove
  • Solo guitar arranging
  • Jazz repertoire

Sample Lessons

Accompanying a Singer sample lesson preview

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Introduction To Fingerstyle Guitar sample lesson preview

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Underlying Concepts sample lesson preview

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Equipment sample lesson preview

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Preview the curriculum

300+ lessons · 7 levels

2,000+ video exchanges. All yours.

Video exchanges are lessons between the educator and student. All students have access to every Video Exchange recorded in this school to improve their learning. As a Premium subscriber, you can submit unlimited videos for direct, personalized feedback on your playing.

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About the educator

Martin Taylor

A Grammy-nominated fingerstyle guitarist and jazz virtuoso, he has collaborated with Tommy Emmanuel, Jeff Beck, Chet Atkins, and Julian Lage. A recipient of a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award and appointed MBE for services to jazz, he's a renowned international fingerstyle guitar educator.

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