I'm never good at answering these questions. I have been playing too long. First of all, I play songs the way I like them to sound. Second, I don't...

Hi, iv'e been playing it exactly how you said for a few years now, i like it that way and it sounds fine.You should play it how you want to , if your ...

I play the same version, but using folk fingerstyle/pattern picking/travis picking, whichever your preferred terminology , personally i prefer folk fi...

This is a good book that clearly shows strumming and picking patterns for included songsdidn't see post above :oops:

unless i'm using it in a melody line, don't really miss, we all like different things i guess.

I tend to use just two fingers for "A" shape barre chords, 1 to make the bar(though i actually only need to fret the A string) , and my ring finger to...

I find them much easier to play on electric and nylon, on my steel stringed , which has a slightly higher action, it's a bit hit and miss.

As greybeard said, i drill small holes in mine, works for me.

The monster mash David?...... you really are as old as me. :D Old? How about . . .Where Have All the Flowers Gone? (Pete Seeger) Hadn't been born in ...

There's also the variation that uses ii instead of IV. For the key of C, that would be C, Am, Dm, G.And I don't know why, but I just thought of The Mo...

Bought a course called jamorama, and went through that pretty quickly, then just trawled internet for as much info as i could get.As for music theory,...

Just getting into fingerstyle, liked that a lot! :D

Thanks :D

It's subjective - and genre-based.An "advanced" folk guitarist wouldn't even have beginner chops in jazz. Different types of music call for different...

I learned to play via a course on the internet, plus visiting lots of sites, so i suppose you could class me as self taught,I have been strumming alon...