A new quarter starts tomorrow in the Fingerstyle Five. If you joined now, what would your first day look like inside the membership?

You'd immediately have access to a library of over forty traditional and contemporary blues songs, including classics like "Rollin' And Tumblin'," "You Got To Move," "Key To The Highway," "Nobody's Fault But Mine," and many, many more.

For every one of those songs, you could download the tab, watch at-tempo and slowed-down versions of the tune, and access in-depth live streamed lessons walking you through every part of the song.

For each song, you could start with a simple, beginners' version of the melody and bass line, and learn an intro and outro, before starting to add embellishments like double-stops, hammerons and syncopations.

When you felt ready, you could move on to additional, optional lessons on how to add bass runs, blues licks or chord substitutions to that same song.

You could learn your first pentatonic scale, along with the technique and right-hand coordination to play your very first solo on a song from the membership like "Catfish Blues," "Jack 'O Diamonds," "Trouble In Mind" or "How Long Blues."

And, if what you really wanted was a weekly guided plan, a way to work step-by-step through one specific song at at time...

You could roll up to this Thursday's membership live stream and start learning "Statesboro Blues" from scratch.

You could download the tab ahead of time, and watch a handful of short videos demonstrating how both the basic and embellished version of the song sound, at tempo and slowed down.

During the live stream, if you didn't understand which finger to use for part of the melody, had a question about how to play one of the chords, or just wanted to know the best way to start practicing the tune, you could ask me in the chat, and get an answer before the hour was up.

If you couldn't be there live, you could watch a complete replay of the stream afterwards. And you could watch it as many times as you liked, whenever you wanted to.

Meanwhile, if you weren't sure where to find more information about palm muting, or playing over an alternating bass, or wanted to know what other songs we've done in the key of D, you could introduce yourself in the community forum and get ideas and advice from over 800 other students working on the same kind of music – even the same songs – as you are.

And you could come to an orientation live stream next Tuesday specifically for new members and learn about all the essential concepts and techniques the membership covers, as well as how to navigate the website and where to find all the songs, lessons and tabs you're most interested in.

You could still work at your own pace, on the material you liked best. If you needed the whole three months to work on "Statesboro Blues," you could do that. If you wanted to pick a new song to work on at the same time, you could do that, too. 

Whether you wanted to focus on basic technique, beginner-level tunes, blues improvisation or chord substitutions, you could find lessons for that, and the songs to apply them to.

I could go on. But you get the idea. If you've been thinking about joining the Fingerstyle Five, the start of a new quarter is the best time to do it. Almost fifty new people have joined over the past week, and they're already making themselves at home in the community, learning their way around, and getting started on new songs.

If you join now, you'll have lots of company – both new folks like yourself, excited to get started, and long-time members happy to share the things they've learned so far and ready to continue learning new material.

There is no long-term commitment when you join the Fingerstyle Five. The membership is still just $29/month, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Sign up now at the link below:

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More soon,

David