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Creative Fingerstyle Guitar Collection: The 3-in-1 Collection of Technique, Scale & Arpeggio Mastery Books for Acoustic Guitar
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Music Instruction: GeneralMusic Instruction: Guitar
ISBN13: 9781789334913
Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com
Published: Aug 11 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.55 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Master the Art of Creative Fingerstyle Guitar
Do scales and arpeggios feel more like exercises than music?
Do you struggle to make performances sound expressive, fluid and personal?
Do you want to create fingerstyle arrangements and compositions with greater confidence?
The Creative Fingerstyle Guitar Collection brings together three complete books by award-winning guitarist, composer and educator Will McNicol. This carefully structured collection will help you master the expressive techniques, creative scale ideas, and flowing arpeggio concepts that transform fingerstyle technique into real music.
Each book connects essential skills to musical examples and beautiful etudes. You will develop greater control, a richer tone, deeper fretboard knowledge, and a creative vocabulary that you can use in your own arrangements and compositions.
Expressive Fingerstyle Guitar Techniques
Discover the four essential elements of expressive acoustic guitar performance: dynamics, articulation, tone, and timing.
Through 100 exercises, musical examples and etudes, Will shows you how to treat every finger on your picking hand as an individual tone and volume control. Learn how to bring melodies and inner voices to life, and combine each expressive element to create convincing musical phrasing.
You will learn to:
Control micro and macro dynamics with precision
Create a wide range of tones, textures and articulations
Push and pull against the beat with musical intent
Combine dynamics, tone, articulation and timing
Creative Scales for Fingerstyle Guitar
Move beyond repetitive scale practice and discover how scales can become a source of melody, harmony and creative inspiration.
Explore cascading scales that combine open strings with flowing harmonies. Master seamless position shifts and slurs, and add depth with natural, artificial and harp harmonics. Discover how each idea works in real musical settings.
You will learn to:
Transform scales into expressive melodic ideas
Create cascading textures with fretted notes and open strings
Improve position shifts, slurs and picking-hand control
Shape scales through dynamics, tone and articulation
Creative Arpeggios for Fingerstyle Guitar
Stop playing predictable shapes and start using arpeggios as melodic tools, harmonic textures, and expressive building blocks.
Develop one-, two- and three-octave major and minor arpeggios across the fretboard. Learn to connect positions smoothly, apply arpeggios to chord progressions, and create rich textures and beautiful voicings.
You will learn how to:
- Move freely between essential arpeggio positions
- Connect shapes with smooth, economical transitions
- Add melody, movement and harmonic depth to arrangements
- Apply arpeggios to common chord progressions
Turn Technique into Music
The Creative Fingerstyle Guitar Collection offers a complete path from technical control to creative freedom.
All three books include clear instruction, standard notation, TAB and free audio downloads. Bonus video content provides additional demonstrations of the techniques/musical concepts.
Whether you want to refine your technique, enrich your arrangements, or compose original music, this collection will give you the skills and inspiration to develop a distinctive fingerstyle voice.
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