These pages are dedicated to the art of Fingerstyle Guitar.  If you're new to Fingerstyle Guitar, read Bob Baxter's definition below.  I also invite you to read the essays "American Fingerstyle Guitar" by John Schroeter and "The Guitar Place" by Will Schmid to understand why Fingerstyle Guitar is growing in popularity and why I created this web page.

You will find quality guitar tablature to download and MIDI music that is exclusively Fingerstyle Guitar: all the tablature can be found on the TAB & MIDI page.  There are also reviews of selected Fingerstyle Books, and overviews of some of the best Low Cost TAB Software. The Open Tuning Reference is a popular section and has a lot of great information, including tips for composing your own music.  There is also a page of Guitar Player Jokes (all in good fun!) and lots of selected Guitar Links.  

Also newly added is a page of Frequently Asked Guitar Questions and a Fingerstyle Guitar Forum where you are invited to post your comments or questions on Fingerstyle Guitar.   You can strike up a dialog with fingerstyle players from all over the world.

Also, because John Fahey has been such a huge influence on my playing, I've dedicated a page about this great Fingerstyle musician as well.

Fingerstyle Defined:  "FINGER-PICKING is a Southern-based American instrumental guitar style.   Many people incorrectly use the term "Finger-Picking" to mean any right hand style in which the fingers pluck or pull strings.   Most of these styles should be simply called "plucking styles."   Finger-Picking is a specific and complex melody style which allows one guitar to do the work of two by placing a treble-string melody over a constant bass-string accompaniment.   Most Finger-Pickers use a steel-string guitar which is preferable both for its bright, penetrating sound and for its "quicker" narrow neck."
 Bob Baxter, 1967