Fingerstyle Magazine, an online free journal for the fingerstyle releases
The Fingerstyle Magazine is a journal that has for mission to provide the latest releases around the fingerstyle universe.
It can be a real challenge to follow the fingerstyle evolution, as the artists are a numerous amount, not always well known, and cover a very wide genres of musique (from classical music to metal, personal creations, and so on…), on a wide variety of instruments (mainly guitar, but so many other instruments). The amount of content is overwhelming, and it’s hard to not miss the true gems inside of it.
We therefore want to make a journal that will be helpful for the players that want an update of the fingerstyle news, as well as for the people who enjoy listening to instrumental music. We are excited to give the possibility to spread the fingerstyle excellence among the music enjoyers, and we hope that you will take pleasure during your fingerstyle journey. For the neophytes, there is a definition of what is fingerstyle at the bottom of this page to try to grasp this amazing musical style.
About the website
– In the highlights, we are gathering the latest worthy fingerstyle releases. *
You will find there the monthly updates, the yearly updates ; and the top selection of the redaction for each of them. It is the best place to go if you want to be updated or discover fingerstyle.
– In the Songs cover history page, we are taking some songs, and going into the depth of the history of fingerstyle covers of this song (or of the impact it had if it’s original creation). These articles are made to show the amount of creativity that fingerstyle can give. You will be presented a vast amount of plays that are adding great muscial value. This is why this section will also (I hope) serve the professionals who can find many sources of inspiration in there.
– In the events page, we will talk about the incoming fingerstyle events and the ones that are taking place, as well as updates for matters that concern the magazine. For now this page is empty, but content will come soon.
Now that you know the big lines, enjoy surfing on our website. If you don’t want to miss the fingerstyles updates, you can join our Discord server here ; and if you want to contact us via email, feel free to go to the contact page, where you will be able to reach us.
Fingerstyle definition, for guitar but not only…
This is not an easy task to describe the fingerstyle. If we break it down to its literal meaning, to cover the large sense of it, we would obtain basically any guitar playing that is done with the fingers. As you may start to realize, this can cover a lot of options. To classical guitar style, blues, rock, metal, funk, … every genre is eligible to have its own place in the fingerstyle universe. However, as it is merely impossible to define fingerstyle with words, we intuitively consider it, with a few more precisions that can unfortunately only be judge by common sense (rather than definite words). So, is fingerstyle what is using some advance guitar (or other string instruments) techniques, like walking bass, harmonics, percussions, and so on. You will find here many very different kinds of fingerstyle plays, and that not even only on guitar (ukulele, bass, guitar-harp…to some unique instruments). We can nonetheless tell you to expect to hear the artists playing like they are a whole band or orchestra themselves ; for example the bass, the chords, the melody, and sometimes even the percussions at the same time.
And once again, as fingerstyle is used for many genres, and many different kinds of plays, we are sure that you will find some plays that you will really enjoy, and hopefully that will go inside one of your various playlists.
* Even we are doing our best, it is possible that we missed some important releases, or that we didn’t put some songs on purpose because it didn’t resonnate with our emotions. Bear in mind that we welcome constructive comments, so don’t hesitate to reach us via our contact page by e-mail, or join our Discord community.