Fingerpicking Course
Who Is This For?
Whether you’re completely new to fingerpicking or you’ve always admired players who can effortlessly combine bass lines, chords, and melody together, this course is designed to help you build strong fingerpicking foundations in a clear and approachable way.
Through a series of practical, progressive lessons, you’ll develop coordination, timing, finger independence, and confidence while learning techniques that can be applied to countless songs and styles.
By the end of the course, you’ll feel far more comfortable playing flowing fingerstyle patterns, creating fuller arrangements, and adding a more expressive and musical dimension to your guitar playing.
What You Will Learn
✅ PIMA Fingering
✅ Moving Bass Lines
✅ Fingerstyle Blues
✅ How to use fingerpicking in songs you already know
✅ Travis Picking
✅ Interactive play along drills with backing tracks
Whats Included?
Across these 7 progressive lessons, we’ll take you from the absolute fundamentals of fingerpicking through to more advanced techniques and musical applications in a clear, practical, and approachable way.
Starting with the basics of PIMA fingerstyle technique and hand positioning, you’ll gradually build confidence with hammer-ons, pull-offs, Travis picking, moving bass lines, and the coordination needed to combine melody, rhythm, and accompaniment together naturally.
Each lesson is paired with a dedicated fingerpicking drill designed to immediately put the techniques you’ve learned into real musical practice. You’ll be able to either play along with the guided video demonstrations or download the backing tracks and practice at your own pace away from the lesson.
The course is designed to build progressively, helping you steadily improve your timing, finger independence, control, and confidence while developing practical fingerstyle skills you can apply to a huge range of songs and styles.
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What You Will Get:
🔴 7 Step by step video lessons
🔴 Clear jargon free teaching designed to be easy to follow
🔴 Printable resources to aid your learning and practice
🔴 Play along finger drills & downloadable backing tracks
Meet Your Tutor
James has been teaching guitar for over 15 years and is the head of Kirklees Guitar School, which delivers over 200 lessons each week from its studio in Denby Dale.
Alongside his in-person teaching, he helps guitarists around the world through his YouTube channel and the Kirklees Guitar School Academy, focusing on practical, real-world playing.
As well as teaching, James is an in-demand session guitarist, performing with a variety of artists across the UK and Europe.
Martin Bown
If you are wondering about finding a place to learn guitar, wonder no more…..I cannot recommend James and his team highly enough!
Kate Pop
James is passionate about music and teaching guitar; his knowledge and expertise is second to none. I would highly recommend taking lessons
Dennis Micallef
James is a true master of his craft, and teaches in a way that few can.
KGS Academy
Members of the Kirklees Guitar School Academy receive free access to this course as part of their ongoing membership, along with full access to every other course in the academy library.
This means that as a member, you can work through a growing collection of lessons and resources at your own pace, continually developing your playing without any additional cost per course.
If you’d like to learn more about the academy and what’s included in membership, click the button below to find out more.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this course suitable for beginners?
Yes. The course starts from the absolute basics and is designed to guide you step-by-step through the foundations of fingerpicking in a clear and approachable way.
Do I need any previous fingerstyle experience?
Not at all. Whether you’re completely new to fingerpicking or you’ve experimented with it before and struggled to make it feel comfortable, this course is designed to help you build solid technique and confidence.
Are there exercises to practise alongside the lessons?
Yes. Every lesson includes a dedicated fingerpicking drill designed to reinforce what you’ve just learned and help you apply the techniques in a musical way.
Is this course for acoustic or electric guitar?
The course works well on both acoustic and electric guitar, although many players naturally associate fingerpicking with acoustic styles such as folk, singer-songwriter, blues, and Americana music.
Will this help improve my coordination and timing?
Definitely. One of the main goals of the course is to improve finger independence, rhythm, timing, and overall control of your picking hand.
How long is the course?
The course is made up of 7 structured lessons designed to be worked through progressively. You can revisit the lessons, drills, and backing tracks as often as you need.