Because a Top 10 is too mainstream. LOL.
Here's a list of videos that are popular, known, influential or in some way I feel is a good introduction to vast jungle of fingerstyle guitar YouTube videos.
If you're a guitar teacher, this is a good list to introduce your students to in case they're not familiar with it.
If you're a total fingerstyle guitar geek, you've probably seen all these videos & will ask me why some videos are not included. The reason is because there's a lot of videos out there! =p
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1. Drifting - Andy McKee
This is one of the videos that started it all off. Great lesson in playing in DADGAD, percussive playing & tapping.
2. Crazy (Gnarls Barkley) - Don Ross
Don Ross was one of my biggest influences when I started playing fingerstyle guitar. His album 'Passion Session' is still of my faves. Strongly recommended.
3. Somebody I used to know (Gotye) - Mike Dawes
Mike Dawes covered this Gotye song and focused all his energy to get this crazy arrangement together. Epic fingerstyle guitar.
4. Airtap - Erik Mongrain
This started a whole generation of lap-tapping guitarists. Great performance, super clean briliant playing. Love it.
5. Reality - Antoine Dufour
Antoine is a major influence to a whole new generation of players who know fingerstyle guitar via the CandyRat Youtube channel and record label. Very intricate playing and elegant textures.
6. Playing with Pink Noise - Kaki King
This is the Kaki King song that most people know her for. Since this song, she has explored looping, different instruments and gotten even more textural and ambient. Great compositions and moods in her music.
7. Time 2 - Ewan Dobson
Ewan Dobson is his own genre I think. And the look. Wow.
8. Passionflower - Jon Gomm
One of my favorite singer-songwriters/virtuoso fingerstyle guitarists. This song made him famous though my fave piece of his is his take on Radiohead's High and Dry. My dream is to tour with Jon.
9. Pirates of the Caribean - Sungha Jung
Most of my younger guitar students started playing because of Sungha. He's an inspiration to a whole generation because he showed them that it's possible for a kid to play like this.
10. No Woman No Cry (Bob Marley) - Thomas Leeb
A huge influence to my playing after I met him back in 2003 when I attended Eric Roche's Residential Guitar Workshop in Devon, UK. Thomas is one of a kind. Also, check out Grooveyard (video link).
11. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - Kotaro Oshio
Kotaro's performance on this is a great introduction to his style which blends his Michael Hedges influences and his own sensibilities. Great touch and beautiful playing.
12. Billie Jean (Michael Jackson) - Adam Rafferty
Adam is all about groove and tone. A maestro and some of the most elegant fingerstyle groove pop guitar you'll hear.
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Thanks for checking this blog post!
It's part of the new material for version 2.0 of the Percussive Fingerstyle Guitar Course that I teach. The new version is in the works...
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