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I always enjoying seeing someone having a fresh angle on playing guitar that Ive never seen before. This video sure presents a unique approach to the old bass & strum style.

Staying on the quest for amazing fingerstyle players from last post, today sees us land in the Netherlands to hear Igor Presnyakov. Igor has a huge collection fingerstyle covers on his youtube that I highly recommend. For what he lacks in the quality camcorder department he makes up in his playing. Groove spiced arrangements of some cool songs both old and new. From Beethoven to Michael Jackson to Rage Against The Machine Igor sure covers the bases! The video below comes with a personal confession, I have a soft spot for this daggy old electro pop song 'popcorn'. After indecision on which of his great videos to post I couldnt help but go with my heart! Pop it up yo :) Visit Igor youtube page and hear some of his other great acoustic covers: http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres

Oh wow, now this is a good one. My eyes were glued to the screen the whole video. If your daring check out tabs on his site at: http://www.manelijamal.com/tabs.html Want to play finger style guitar like Andy McKee, Tommy Emmanuel and this guy? Then you have got to check out Rockers Guide to Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Enjoy this post? Subscribe to email updates of future posts HERE .

Some great inspiration to get creative with sound on your six string... and anything else you can find nearby. Cutlery anyone?

If you type 'acoustic guitar' into Youtube the top two places are taken by percussion and tapping maestro Andy McKee. The man is a big part of the rising popularity of the style over the last year or two. Personally I love the style, possibly my only gripe is that the songs you hear using the technique usually all have a very similar folky or new age vibe to them. It made me think, surely someone can push it a bit further and meld the techniques with other styles. It's with this in mind that the following video really caught my attention, this is a blues using the percussion / tapping guitar style. Cool stuff... nice to see someone opening things up and bit. Enjoy this post? Subscribe to email updates of future posts HERE .

For many rockers their only chance for crossover into appreciating classical is through neo classical shred guitar like Yngwie Malmsteen. Paul is one of the few electric guitar players that plays classical songs true to their original form without them sounding out of place on the electric guitar. There is just some thing about electric guitar and classical that doesnt go very well together normally, hence the fact you normally hear it given a metal or shred treatment. Maybe what differentiates Paul is that instead of arranging string lines on other instruments or cutting away all but the main melody is he plays all the instruments lines on the guitar, creating a guitar impression of an 'electric guitar orchestra' of sorts. Whatever you want to call it, he has a great take on playing classical on electric guitar. Enjoy and mabe try your own hand at some classical on electric guitar.

One of the things that I love about melodic metal that you dont find in any other style is the awesomely arranged guitar harmonies. Busy, frantic and well... just downright impressive. If you can speak french you might learn a thing or two from the lesson portion of the video, if not just watch closely :) It seems that Frenchies can Metal it up with the best of them!