Reddit mentions of 120 Studies for Right Hand Development (Classical Guitar Study Series)

Some of the more common ones for guitar are the 120 studies for right hand development by Giuliani, the 20 Sor studies (segovia), the melodic and progressive etudes by carcassi, and the Segovia scales (even though they are pretty useless IMO). There is also Pumping Nylon by scott tenant as well as Brouwer's Estudios Sencillos and Nuevos Estudios Sencillos if you are looking for something more contemporary.

This book might be of some help

If you've never done fingerpicking before, buy Mauro Giuliani's Studies for Right Hand Development and warm up 15-20 minutes per day working through it.

In my classical studies, I've found this book to be crazy valuable.

http://www.amazon.com/Studies-Development-Classical-Guitar-Series/dp/0898981905

It's not a how-to, really. This is a series of exercises meant to strengthen and coordinate your right hand. Excellent warm-up material.

I was like LittlePantsBigShirts too, but now I’ve been playing for 12 years and it’s really worth it even if your not as quick of a learner as this songwriter.

To the songwriter, I was amazed by how clean of finger picking you have. Consistency is awesome, but even small variations are extremely noticeable just like mistakes, but in a good way. You have a video of your original down pat, I would branch off of that finger pattern, even if you don’t want to put it in the song. It may be your next song, you never know.

I’m not an expert or a fast learner, but when I went for a music minor and took classical (which is all fingerpicking like you’re doing) the teacher made me buy these two very thin books. Each exercise for the right hand is gold. I didn’t focus on the scale one as much, but that’s because of trust issues and I thought the right hand was more important. They’re equally important and I’m an idiot.

These are the books, they’re cheap, and a guitarist who’s been playing for 50 years swear by these little books. A guy on YouTube can demonstrate each exercise.

120 Studies for Right Hand Development (Classical Guitar Study Series) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0898981905/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_C7RpDbWE9TX8X

Diatonic Major And Minor Scales Book https://www.amazon.com/dp/1598060597/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_W8RpDbT1SAV2M

Plus I feel you on being lonely around friends. I’m not going to give advice on that to accent the swagtastic info these books give out.

Keep writing, making mistakes and intentional changes help you grow, and eating right (which is often overlooked or confidently not known (5 min microwaved cut sweet potatoes)) helps with everything (emotional/physical/intelligence.)


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Tremolo is a huge undertaking, while I personally have not mastered the technique by any means, I am currently in the process of learning Recuerdos De La Alhambra and I'll give you some pointers on where to start.

First, master sequential planting. If your planting technique is lacking, develop that before progressing any further with learning tremolo. Tremolo is essentially a huge sequential planting technique, learning to plant will directly translate over into your tremolo. I would also recommend learning your tremolo on the B string, this will force you to train your right hand to keep your A-M-I tight. Giuliani 120 Right Hand Studies covers both sequential planting and tremolo, I would highly recommend starting there. Also, I would suggest checking out Scott Tennant's Pumping Nylon which covers tremolo technique in detail. This would be a great place to start with your tremolo studies. The timing between your A and P is absolutely critical, take great care with your right hand development.

I will stress that learning the technique is absolutely necessary before learning any specific tremolo piece. Internalize the motion in your right hand, when you get it down and can fully trust your technique you will learn to relax and fall into the groove so easily.

EDIT: Consider learning Carcassi # 7 as well, this is a great piece that is not too demanding during your right hand development.