Solo Flatpicking Etudes Vol. 1

Thank you for sharing. I love your music. Grew up the son of a classical pianist and I cannot tell just how much joy your art brings to me!

Excellent teaching and music

I am self taught guitarist and learnt to sing and play guitar on my own. I wanted to do more musically and singer songwriter wasn't what I wanted to do. I wanted to play solo. I tried blues and rock electric lead guitar but didn't quite connect to it. I tried fingerstyle & classical; but I didn't want to grow nails (I am gym goer and nails are not good lifting weights and I love eating Indian food and nails come in the way) and using finger picks was uncomfortable. I was in search of what music can I play and as a last resort, even though I wasn't keen on it, I turned to bluegrass flatpicking. But just playing melody lines at fast speed, whilst was thrilling, it wasn't soulfully satisfying. Yet learning that genre led me to find Roberto's course and led me to his youtube channel and website and I just connected with the type of flatpicking solos he played and taught. I have just completed his vol 1 and and I can't express how good I feel. This is the music I want to play. If I may offer a little feedback, I would say that Robert expects student to learn music theory. He doesn't teach why and how he arranged the solo. But he teaches it very well and I had to figure out why did he choose a certain chord progression and in that chord progression why he chose only certain strings/notes for his harmony and kept his melody notes separate. Why he chose to different place on fretboard to play an arpeggio etc. So there is a self learning and efforts required. This is a course for a beginner. You must be at least late beginner or intermediate guitarist. I am looking forward to learn all solos from his website and hoping that through self learning I might be able to create my own solos eventually.

Ottimo