This Nathan is so freaking helpful! It's the very first step which you have to understand, when seeing people creating their own arrangement of songs. It's a pretty good breakdown of the essentials which are necessary, to not just play the guitar but to really play by heart! Thank you so much for this. Sidenote: This is the best ad you could have done to promote your new workshop man! Seriously!
Brilliant summary of a great skill to have as a guitarist. The natural next step would be to begin creating your own solo/fingerstyle renditions of your favorite songs. The guitar is just so awesome.
Did you try this for yourself? Let me know in a comment! As you can hear, even with just steps 1 and 2 - you can create something really beautiful without a ton of music theory or fretboard knowledge
Hey , i just signed in for your workshop, i love your music and teaching, and bought quiet a few arrangements of yours ❤ , but i cant attend live im afraid, but happy to watch and learn from you - cheers, grateful greetings your fan from germany 😊
Hey Nathan, Thanks so much-this was super helpful! 😊 I might need to start adding some improvisation to my classical guitar practice too. I do have a question about arranging for classical and fingerstyle guitar: how do you smoothly transition between different themes or pieces in a medley? Is it about using a specific chord progression, like moving from the dominant chord to the root for resolution, or is there something else you do to make it flow? I’m arranging The Lord of the Rings themes into one medley, and I want the transitions to feel natural. Any tips on this subject or even the LOTR pieces would be awesome! 🎶 Thanks again!
Sounded like LOTR for a second. LONG COMMENT: Anyway, this is something I've always been interested in (as a cover artist lol). Plus I was inspired by your percussion video and I'd love to make my own background music for videos. Def going to review this a lot more.
I haven't played my guitar in a couple of years now and when I saw your email, which I usually don't have the time to read through, this one stood out and I have been thinking about it to the point where I dreamt that I was put on the spot to play something and I was sooo nervous and froze. I am defiantly joining! I was also wondering if you will also cover the aspect of jamming together with other people, Ive always found it really hard to find the right scale to match them with. Thank you again for making this accessible!
Let's make it so you never have that nightmare again 🤘 (The Fingerstyle Improv Bootcamp is all about solo fingerstyle improvisation, so we won't be discussing jamming with other people specifically - but being a strong solo improviser will naturally help you become a better ensemble improviser)
@@BeyondTheGuitar Recently I was trying to play Allergies by Marcin and You need to hammer on from the 7th fret to the 11th buy I am having trouble with having a clean and nice sound Because how far I have to stretch
@@chain_havnis it’s all guitar content. So I decided it was stupid to split my guitar content into 2 channels. If I start a cooking show, I’ll post that on another channel
Aloha🌸Nathan! Awesome👌! I'm a beginner guitar nylon player and would like to know if your Improv Bootcamp would be OK to join and learn from? I understand that you focus mainly on intermediate and high level of guitar playing, and would like to ask you if your Fingertyle Journey (Master the 12 Core Techniques of fingerstyle guitar playing) would be appropriante for beginners? I LOVE your style of teaching👨🏫 and perhaps one day you can have a beginner to internadiate video training. Thank you Kindly for ALL of Great informative youtube videos! Namaste🙏
I have taken Fingerstyle Journey, it's a great course. It's not a course for complete beginners in the sense that it teaches you the notes on the guitar, or reading music or tabs or how to hold it and so on. But if you get these complete basics down, which you can achieve in a few weeks, you can definitely start Fingerstyle Journey. You probably won't be able to really finish it in 90 days, but you will improve greatly and learn a lot of things right from the beginning instead of trying to fix bad habits after years.
The Improv Bootcamp will be perfect for you if you want to learn how to improvise, even as a beginner. No prior music theory knowledge is required, and I teach you everything you need to make your improvisations as simple or as complex as you like - to match your technical ability. Regarding Fingerstyle Journey... it doesn't cover the absolute basics (as Dennis mentioned), but it teaches concepts I wish I learned as a beginner. Things that would've prevented a lot of bad habits. The course will definitely push and challenge you, but you get lifetime access to it - so you can work through it at your own pace. Any of the absolute basics that you might feel you're missing are easily Google-able. No need to take a course on those
I took the Fingerstyle Journey course after not having played for years, and even prior to that I wasn't very good. I had a stumble or two along the way, and had to pick up a few nuggets of knowledge from the practice discord, but I was able to complete the course. I didn't 'master' ever module, but I did a lot better than I ever thought I could, and by the end I was playing a piece I never thought possible. The course starts off nice and easy, with the difficulty increasing as you go. From a beginners perspective, there are some difficulty spikes, and while those might feel challenging at first, they are not at all impossible. If you can get the basics of the prior lessons down, then you have what you need to complete the next, as long as you are willing to put in the work. And like the others have mentioned, you can always go back to these lessons later, in any order. I've referred back to them a few times, very handy to have. I also plan on running through the whole thing again at a later date.
Join Fingerstyle Improv Bootcamp before doors close and learn how to create your own beautiful fingerstyle improvisations! beyondtheguitar.com/improv
This Nathan is so freaking helpful! It's the very first step which you have to understand, when seeing people creating their own arrangement of songs. It's a pretty good breakdown of the essentials which are necessary, to not just play the guitar but to really play by heart!
Thank you so much for this.
Sidenote: This is the best ad you could have done to promote your new workshop man! Seriously!
@@Daniel.Lettau haha thanks man, glad it was helpful!
You are such a legend!
Tack!
Thank you Svante!
Brilliant summary of a great skill to have as a guitarist. The natural next step would be to begin creating your own solo/fingerstyle renditions of your favorite songs. The guitar is just so awesome.
Appreciate you, and agreed!
Way to go, Nathan! Big help to guitarists wanting to make favorite melodies their own!
Did you try this for yourself? Let me know in a comment! As you can hear, even with just steps 1 and 2 - you can create something really beautiful without a ton of music theory or fretboard knowledge
Thank you Nathan
You're welcome
I’m signed up as well, and very excited!
Appreciate you Jared! Level-up incoming
Hey , i just signed in for your workshop, i love your music and teaching, and bought quiet a few arrangements of yours ❤ , but i cant attend live im afraid, but happy to watch and learn from you - cheers, grateful greetings your fan from germany 😊
Awesome! Thanks for all the support. No worries, there will be recordings of each session and you can still participate in the community
Just signed up for the boot camp, I'm excited to start!
YES welcome aboard! Make sure you introduce yourself in the community
You are the best man!!!!
Amazing😍
Wonderfully informative and fun so this is bliss!
Just signed up. look forward to seeing your technique and understanding of fingerstyle improv.
You're in for a treat. Appreciate you!
Very very helpful. I have recently stuck in tries to write something and threw it away. With your video I will try it once again. Thank you, Nathan!
Glad to help. Let me know how it goes!
Thank you! I"ll have to watch this a few more times while I try it out!
Let me know how it goes!
Fascinating! Thank you!
You're welcome Larry. I know you're ready to get started!
I'm gonna send this to my junior
You've helped me a lot❤
Time for me to help my junior
Pay it forward 🤘
i might have to get me one of these
Great stuff!
Thanks 🤘
Hey Nathan,
Thanks so much-this was super helpful! 😊 I might need to start adding some improvisation to my classical guitar practice too. I do have a question about arranging for classical and fingerstyle guitar: how do you smoothly transition between different themes or pieces in a medley? Is it about using a specific chord progression, like moving from the dominant chord to the root for resolution, or is there something else you do to make it flow? I’m arranging The Lord of the Rings themes into one medley, and I want the transitions to feel natural. Any tips on this subject or even the LOTR pieces would be awesome! 🎶
Thanks again!
Very helpful! And I finally got to posting your braveheart melody on my channel. Can you do wayfaring stranger sometime?
Beyond the guitar,it’s possible you teach us the (Idea 10) guitar music thanks men!!!
Sounded like LOTR for a second.
LONG COMMENT: Anyway, this is something I've always been interested in (as a cover artist lol). Plus I was inspired by your percussion video and I'd love to make my own background music for videos. Def going to review this a lot more.
Get after it Adrian 🤘
Hey man big fan! Quick question, what is your gear/amp? Love the tone!
I haven't played my guitar in a couple of years now and when I saw your email, which I usually don't have the time to read through, this one stood out and I have been thinking about it to the point where I dreamt that I was put on the spot to play something and I was sooo nervous and froze. I am defiantly joining! I was also wondering if you will also cover the aspect of jamming together with other people, Ive always found it really hard to find the right scale to match them with. Thank you again for making this accessible!
Let's make it so you never have that nightmare again 🤘
(The Fingerstyle Improv Bootcamp is all about solo fingerstyle improvisation, so we won't be discussing jamming with other people specifically - but being a strong solo improviser will naturally help you become a better ensemble improviser)
Hey Nathan, I thought that maybe you could make an arrangement of gnomes vs knights song. That would be very epic!
Nice.
Can you make a fingerstyle cover on titanic?
Can I ask: What strings do you use? Type and hardness?
Can you make a video about how to hammer ons from multiple frets away
Can you give me a specific example of what you're talking about?
@@BeyondTheGuitar Recently I was trying to play Allergies by Marcin and You need to hammer on from the 7th fret to the 11th buy I am having trouble with having a clean and nice sound Because how far I have to stretch
CAN YOU PLEASE PLAY " Waking Up - Lone Survivor Soundtrack " PLEASEEEEEEEEE 😭😭😭
Dude. We need to get you a harp guitar
It would be fun to play around with one of those
Kinda gave me lotr vibes
With all due respect Nathan, I think these videos are best suited to your other channel instead of your main one.
@@chain_havnis it’s all guitar content. So I decided it was stupid to split my guitar content into 2 channels. If I start a cooking show, I’ll post that on another channel
@@BeyondTheGuitarif you cook like you play guitar, would get an epic cooking show😂
Sorry, I can't take any advice unless it's FIVE EASY steps.
@@mooseymoose oof so close
Aloha🌸Nathan!
Awesome👌! I'm a beginner guitar nylon player and would like to know if your Improv Bootcamp would be OK to join and learn from?
I understand that you focus mainly on intermediate and high level of guitar playing, and would like to ask you if your Fingertyle Journey (Master the 12 Core Techniques of fingerstyle guitar playing) would be appropriante for beginners? I LOVE your style of teaching👨🏫 and perhaps one day you can have a beginner to internadiate video training.
Thank you Kindly for ALL of Great informative youtube videos!
Namaste🙏
I have taken Fingerstyle Journey, it's a great course. It's not a course for complete beginners in the sense that it teaches you the notes on the guitar, or reading music or tabs or how to hold it and so on.
But if you get these complete basics down, which you can achieve in a few weeks, you can definitely start Fingerstyle Journey. You probably won't be able to really finish it in 90 days, but you will improve greatly and learn a lot of things right from the beginning instead of trying to fix bad habits after years.
The Improv Bootcamp will be perfect for you if you want to learn how to improvise, even as a beginner. No prior music theory knowledge is required, and I teach you everything you need to make your improvisations as simple or as complex as you like - to match your technical ability.
Regarding Fingerstyle Journey... it doesn't cover the absolute basics (as Dennis mentioned), but it teaches concepts I wish I learned as a beginner. Things that would've prevented a lot of bad habits. The course will definitely push and challenge you, but you get lifetime access to it - so you can work through it at your own pace. Any of the absolute basics that you might feel you're missing are easily Google-able. No need to take a course on those
I took the Fingerstyle Journey course after not having played for years, and even prior to that I wasn't very good. I had a stumble or two along the way, and had to pick up a few nuggets of knowledge from the practice discord, but I was able to complete the course. I didn't 'master' ever module, but I did a lot better than I ever thought I could, and by the end I was playing a piece I never thought possible. The course starts off nice and easy, with the difficulty increasing as you go.
From a beginners perspective, there are some difficulty spikes, and while those might feel challenging at first, they are not at all impossible. If you can get the basics of the prior lessons down, then you have what you need to complete the next, as long as you are willing to put in the work. And like the others have mentioned, you can always go back to these lessons later, in any order. I've referred back to them a few times, very handy to have. I also plan on running through the whole thing again at a later date.