Tips & Tricks for Solo Fingerstyle Guitar

Daniel shared some tips and tricks for Solo Fingerstyle Guitar 

at Learnix Music School, Singapore

Daniel Purnomo's well known with his solo fingerstyle guitar playing in Singapore. For him, the beauty of solo guitar is at the creativity to combine all the musical parts within 1 guitar - there's main melody, chords, bass line, percussive sound and sometimes improvisation. It's like simulating the whole band in guitar. He call it "playing band in the guitar".



In this real talk Daniel Purnomo - Fingerstyle Guitarist Singapore casually shared some tips, trick and comment about "how if we make a mistake" and "how to choose the good key" during spontaneous solo fingerstyle guitar playing to minimize the challenge.

Tips & tricks for Solo Fingerstyle Guitar

1. In our limitation as guitarist, we might make a mistake - forgive yourself and keep on playing. The more you play the more experience you'll gain.

2. Choose keys with a lot of open strings for the family chords, especially for the bass part - usually key of A, E, D, C, G would be good options. It's very helpful to have open strings in our playing.

3. Place the melody of the song at the comfortable area (easy to reach) of the fingerboard - remember that some top strings are assigned for bass line.

4. Solo guitarist plays the melody, chord & bass line. Sometimes we need to highlight the important parts & sacrifice some not too important part should you find impossible to cover everything spontaneously. 

5. During improvisation, try to make a nice melody around the finger that pressing the bass - you still want to sustain the bass.

6. It's very helpful to have relative pitch so you can transfer the tune you think to the fingerboard more accurately.

7. During personal practice time you might want to try a tune in more than one key - this would improve our fingerboard & fingering knowledge.

8. Etc. 

Disclaimer : 
- This video's not a performance based, but more of educational purpose.
- It's just his subjective opinion based on his very own experience. It's not meant to be "the only way".



Cheers,

Daniel Purnomo