Transform Essential Arpeggios into Musical, Flowing and Expressive Fingerstyle Guitar Pieces

Most guitarists can play arpeggio shapes, but struggle to make them sound like music. The result is familiar patterns, predictable movement, and phrases that feel mechanical when they leave the practice room. If you want a practical way to connect fretboard knowledge with real fingerstyle performance, this book gives you the roadmap.

Creative Arpeggios for Fingerstyle Guitar shows you how to move beyond standard up and down patterns and use arpeggios as melodic tools, harmonic textures, and expressive building blocks for compelling fingerstyle music.

Written by award-winning fingerstyle guitarist, composer and educator Will McNicol, this structured, highly musical method takes a small number of essential shapes and expands them into a complete creative system.

Whether you want to enhance your arrangements, expand your vocabulary, or compose original music, Creative Arpeggios for Fingerstyle Guitar helps you sound musical and fluent across the fretboard.

In This Book You Will Learn To:

- Build one-, two- and three-octave major and minor arpeggios in essential keys

- Master fifth and sixth string root shapes, plus open string ideas for creative movement

- Connect every position with smooth, economical transitions

- Create expressive lines with beautiful phrasing, adding embellishments and harmonics

- Explore stunning textures with drones and colour tones, rather than repeating lifeless exercises

- Musically apply arpeggios in common, real-life chord progressions