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- Acoustic Hybrid PickingLEVEL 4This is an exercise to play "hybrid picking" (pick & fingers) technique on the acoustic guitar. I've written a song where you can practice both: hybrid picking and open strings scales.
- Multi-Finger Hybrid PickingLEVEL 6By involving multiple right hand fingers - we can achieve unparalleled tone, smoothness and speed.
- Finger PickingLEVEL 1Let's give our picks a rest for a few moments. That's right! Today's lesson is on Fingerpicking, which is a great alternative to using a conventional pick. Let your fingers do the walking!
- One Finger GuitarLEVEL 2Let's explore all possibilities inside simplicity, and try to not block or minds on the guitar learning process!
- Little Finger WorkoutLEVEL 6A groovy exercise useful to improve your timing and little finger technique.
- Little Finger EtudeLEVEL 4This lesson focuses on speed and agility of little finger.
- Finger FitnessLEVEL 4A easy to remember warm up & some finger fitness for your guitar playing. Helps to improve the finger independence. Perfect for a daily routine too!
- Acoustic ArpeggiosLEVEL 3Learn to play fingerpicking style on an acoustic guitar.
- Acoustic FingerstyleLEVEL 4Learn to play finger picking acoustic guitar.
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thefireball22nd June 2010Lovely sound and lesson
Muris Varajic10th July 2008Thanks Canis,that's good Epiphone
Canis10th July 2008Wow.... Magical!
And that's an extremely beautiful guitar!- Muris Varajic25th March 2008
Appreciate it.
Carlos Carrillo25th March 2008great melody!!!
good job Muris- Muris Varajic23rd February 2008
Glad you've found it,thanks!
audiopaal23rd February 2008Awesome Muris, love the guitar
- Muris Varajic21st February 2008
You mean which fingers am I using here?
Everything except pinky. 
Ramblingman21st February 2008nice lesson, but finger are you using with your right hand?:/
- Muris Varajic10th January 2008
Thanks a lot,appreciate it!
TylerT10th January 2008great lesson, my brother loves it and is still working on it.you are amazing!
ps.typo..his name is Tommmy Emmanuel not Tony
what an awesome guitar player- Muris Varajic8th December 2007
Thanks,glad you like it
It's Epiphone,Chat Atkins model. - thelax1st December 2007
hey, what guitar is that?
i've always wanted a nylon string guitar and that one looks BEAUTIFUL...
cool lesson too, btw
i never got any lesson on fingerpicking so this is gonna keep me fired up for a while - john from dubai28th November 2007
hi muris gr8 job please add some more melodious stuff like this I would like to learn some finger picking
Thank you - Muris Varajic8th November 2007
Thanks mate!!
Juan M. Valero8th November 2007Thant's a really good lesson !!!!! congratulations, you have a lot to show
- Muris Varajic29th October 2007
Thank you soo much,appreciate it!
Haven't done acoustic lesson in a while,must check out my routine for sure - maes29th October 2007
your right hand looks so smooth when you are finger picking. im gettin' me an acoustic soon and i am going to lean this one for sure. thank you muris for another GREAT lesson. you are a verry good instructor, and one of the best here at gmc.
- Muris Varajic13th October 2007
Thanks,glad that my work inspired you to join GMC!
- pjrake12th October 2007
i signed up primarily to learn this lick (although i'm finding the whole website to be awesome!). spent the whole day practicing and can't wait until i can play the whole thing with the backing tracks!
great lesson!!! - Muris Varajic30th September 2007
Glad you have nice time with this one,thanks!!
You have good practice routine,combining slow and speed stuff.
Will do more of these,no worries. 
PlayAllDay30th September 2007Muris this is a gorgeous song, I can play it and I love it. I practise speed riffs - then I play this - then I practise speed riffs some more - then I play this again
Really nice backing too, very relaxing. Your technique is totally cool, please write some more fingerpicking tunes for us!!- Muris Varajic14th August 2007
No problem at all,glad you like it!!
The guitar in this lesson is Epiphone Chet Atkins model and it has pickup inside the bridge.
About music of this sort...try Tony Emmanuel(tho he's a more complex player) or Chet Atkins in a first place.
And yeah,I'll do my best to make more of these lessons in a future.
Cheers!! 
Guernseyman14th August 2007Hi Muris, I have been practicing this lesson which to be honest is a bit of a stretch for me but..... I am making progress.
Where can I get more of this sort of music?
Do you have any more plans to put some more lessons of this sort on GMC?
Oh an finally... What make and modal of guitar are you using in the lesson clips. It sounds great and looks good too. Does it have internal pick ups?
Lots of questions... apologies if it fels like a grilling.
Guernseyman- Muris Varajic30th July 2007Great lesson however for the newbies out there a brief explanation of natural harmonics and the use of the P.I.M.A picking technique would be useful.
Keep up the good work hope there is more to come!!
Al
Thanks Alex!
More is still to come
Alex Lewis30th July 2007Great lesson however for the newbies out there a brief explanation of natural harmonics and the use of the P.I.M.A picking technique would be useful.
Keep up the good work hope there is more to come!!
Al- Muris Varajic20th July 2007
You can call it as a composition of course,but I made this piece for this lesson.
Maybe I'll use for some material in future,who knows.
And thanks,glad you like it!!! - Lebovski20th July 2007
sounds great! Is it your composition?
Dashooter17th July 2007coo, thanks muris
- Muris Varajic16th July 2007
Of course
You can play regular C major and A minor..
I putted those just to make lesson more funny - Dashooter16th July 2007
I hate to give up, but are there easier chord subs for those two chords?
- Muris Varajic13th July 2007
Thank mygeetar,have a nice time with it until you get you electric!
Dash,you're probably thinking of two chords,
C maj 7/9 and A min 7/9.
Yes,those grips might me tricky for the first time but they are great stuff for your left hand,stretching and nice chords to play as well.
It will increase your stamina too.
Don't give up - mygeetar13th July 2007
my mom wont let me get an electric for a year so i appreciate this acoustic lesson.
thank you so much!!!! - Dashooter11th July 2007
oh, and one thing, that weird lick after the harmonics is not easy.
- Muris Varajic11th July 2007
Thanks guys!
Dashooter:that's right thing to do,work out over backing tracks to improve your timing.
Latter on,you are not going to have problems joining the band or som.
But still try some stuff with metronome,just to get used to it.
Have fun! - Dashooter11th July 2007
great lesson. This site has really improved by timing. I hate using a metrome, but I still want to improve my timing. So what I do is I learn all the solos on this site and use the backing tracks to improve my timing. I don't really have anybody to play with so this works out great!
Aaron11th July 2007just an unbeleivable sound!!!! sickness!!!
- Muris Varajic11th July 2007
Hell yeah David,guys are cool!!
Band is called Illusion I think and I wish video was better..great stuff,thanks for sharing!
Thanks for lesson comment tho - David OToole10th July 2007
That was a neat piece Muris - inspired me to dust off the ol' acoustic - thanks
.
Speaking of Mr. Di Meola I was watching a band on YouTube last week playing one of his tunes from the 'Casino' album and it was brilliant - perfect take from the band.
Their name doesn't seem to be listed - a Greek band they are. Love that album do you know it? Anyway if you do, you might like to have a listen here and see what you think ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zvey0zt5PM
Cheerz D 
shredmandan10th July 2007Good Lesson
- Muris Varajic10th July 2007
Yeah,why not:)
Tho it's hard to do it without nails but will try something with the pick.
Like DiMeola on Friday Night In SF. - nrpstreetballa10th July 2007
ohhh different styles on acoustic sounds amazing!!! any chance of some flamenco or classical??
Ben Howell10th July 2007Lovely stuff Muris-Very musical!
Well done!
-Ben
ace_frehely10th July 2007cool!
- stratman3310th July 2007
wow, nice lesson!
- Muris Varajic10th July 2007
Looks like you really like it,appreciate it!
GuitarDude: It's bad to split electric a lot from acoustic,guitar is guitar after all.
nrpstreetballa: I'll do my best and make more lessons like this,maybe in some different styles but still on acoustic - nrpstreetballa10th July 2007
woohoo!!!! great lesson, will you do more acoustic lessons?
JVM10th July 2007Awesome muris! I just put new strings on my acoustic so I'm going to start it
It sounds great.
GuitarDude10th July 2007ooh I love the sound of acoistic guitars but i hate to play at em xD
quebrado10th July 2007awsome, acoustic sounds really nice man.
keep it up with the acoustic lessons;)
The Uncreator10th July 2007Great sound and awesome licks!!
I really like this piece, great work!- Muris Varajic10th July 2007
Thanks a lot guys,glad you find this nice!
I'll do something on steel in the future as well:) 
Hemlok10th July 2007oh very nice! Thanks for being the first to go the acoustic on GMC, we need more lessons like this
I also need to buy myself a decent acoustic at some stage.
boy_sets_fire710th July 2007wow... awesome
Xranthoius10th July 2007yay havnt had acoustic in awhile
Andrew Cockburn10th July 2007Really sweet lesson Muris, well played and very musical - need to dust off my nylon stringer, it deserves a little more attention than it gets
funkymilk10th July 2007Woah, Nice lesson, Is this the first lesson with an acoutisc or what? ;D Very nice Muris! Keep up the good work!
- Owen10th July 2007
Good quality, nicely lighten video.
Great excercise!
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Acoustic Stuff
I've seen many members here at GMC asking for lesson on acoustic guitar,so here is one,with nylon strings:)
It's in key of G major,contains finger-picking,strumming,arpeggios,natural harmonics etc.
This is NOT hard stuff to play,but has nice sound and cool licks that you can play on acoustic.
Hope you'll like it,let's go!:)
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