fingerstyle guitarFingerstyle Guitar Lessons by Dan C Holloway

Welcome to DanCHolloway.com, one of the best online resources for learning fingerstyle guitar! Whether you're looking to expand your fingerstyle repertoire or improve your technique, this site offers a variety of material that is sure to help you become a better fingerstyle guitarist. This site offers video lessons and tabs of all of my fingerstyle guitar arrangements as well as general fingerstyle technique lessons. For more information about my fingerstyle guitar video lessons and to view a sample lesson, check out the sign up page. You can also read our member testimonials below to get an idea of how others have found these lessons helpful.

The problem with fingerstyle guitar is that there aren’t very many good resources for learning. You may get lucky and find a private instructor in your town, and chances are it is going to cost you roughly $100 per month. You’ll also have to work the lesson times into your schedule. Trust me, I know. I have been a guitar teacher for the past 30 years, and I currently still teach students to play.

How this site will help you become a better fingerstyle guitar player:

  • My lessons focus on actual songs.
  • I personally teach each song with video and tabs. There is no need to read music.
  • I won’t bore you with rigorous drills and exercises.
  • You’ll be learning songs right away.
  • The material ranges from beginner to advanced
  • You can email me with any questions or comments.
  • I take requests for songs that you would like to learn.
  • I add new material monthly.
  • It’s only $9.99 per month.

Beginning Guitar Series Now Available!

This 12 lesson program is designed to teach you how to play guitar from square one. You will learn all the necessary, fundamental skills required to play guitar well and have fun while doing it! From tuning, to left hand technique, chords, pick technique, strumming paterens, fingerpicking, reading tablature and chord charts, and playing songs, this program is aimed at getting you ready to learn whatever kind of guitar playing interests you the most. Whether it's acoustic guitar or electric guitar, this program will give you the skills you need to pursue many genres of music and guitar playing! At only $12.95 a month, this program is a bargain, considering that it will cover over three months worth of private lessons (Nearly a $300 value). Try it out! You can keep your membership for as long as it takes you to learn how to play, and cancel at anytime.

Member Testimonials

Dan's lessons are well thought out and the arrangements are complete and pleasing. His easygoing manner and ability to communicate his thoughts on video have been a tremendous benefit. The tab is complete enough and well written but it leaves room for me to add my own style to the arrangements.  I look forward to continuing to work through the rest of the lessons.

Sincerely,
Tim O'Neill
Binghamton, NY

Hi Dan,

I have not had a chance to use very many of the videos, but the ones I
have used and looked at were very helpful.  I like your style of
playing and the tabs provided in addition to the videos are quite
helpful.  I particularly like having the two videos...one at full
speed so I can hear how the finished product sounds, and one that
walks me through it step by step.  It is definitely worth the
$10/month to have some help!

Thanks,
Ben

I have been taking fingerstyle guitar lessons from Dan Holloway for a relatively short period of time. However, I have been playing guitar for a number of years & recently became interested in learning fingerstyle. I researched quite extensively the available instruction locally & on line. After quite some time I ran across DanCHolloway.com & after looking over what Mr. Holloway had to offer, his teaching method & song selection as well as his personality I knew he was exactly what I was looking for. It didn’t take long to realize I had made the right choice. His talent and knowledge of music is quite phenomenal! I really look forward to the new songs he makes available and would highly recommend to anyone seriously wanting to learn fingerstyle guitar to make the same choice I made. You will not regret it!

Sincerely,

Thom Chapple

Great arrangements to choose from.
-Labfour

Hello Dan,

Your website lessons are great and challenging.  Songs I know and can
relate to. While I've been playing guitar for many years I am very rusty and haven't kept up. I learned a little "Travis style" or "Chet Atkins style" picking at a very young age but unfortunately got busy through the years! Your choice of songs and teaching "methodology" keep me interested, disciplined and focused. I'm rejuvenated again! I can also learn on my own time due to a very busy work schedule.

Thanks and keep the songs coming.

Charley Nix
Gainesville, GA

Dan -- I have really benefitted from your program -- I am not a "natural" so seeing a piece played, hearing it played and seeing the tab for it has been so helpful. Your arrangements bring the vocal parts out through the guitar, for those of us who do not have pleasing voices.

Greg

Dan -
I have taught guitar and played professional for many years, in a previous life so to speak. I signed up after viewing Dan play "Fields of Gold" on YouTube. His arrangements are very good, and demonstrated very well in his videos. There are different levels of difficulty, some very challenging, and some easy. It is well worth the money he charges. Dan has put together an easy to use internet site, that demonstrates how to play some rather tasteful arrangements.

Joe DeLong

I've been a fingerstyle guitar player and enthusiast
ever since the 1980's.  The videos Dan has put together
are just fantastic...easy to follow with some really nice variations
that keep things interesting.  Nice selection of songs too. There's
enough content there to keep any guitar picker busy for a long, long time.  I would highly recommend to anyone with an interest in fingerstyle guitar that they check his membership area out.  There's a ton of great value there.

Sincerely,

Tom Moore

If your a finger style guitar player looking for direction in how to take your playing to the next level subscribe to Dan's lessons, there is enough information to keep a player learning for a long time.

Great selection of songs.
-Greg

Hi Dan,

I really enjoy your lessons. I play mostly classical guitar and I find your arrangements to lend a nice balance to some of the other pieces I'm working on. I'm currently working on your arrangement "Song for a Winter's Night" and I've been humming it all day. It's one of those pieces that sounds great for it's level of difficulty, which is very rewarding to me.

Shelly (Rachelle) Brown

Dan:

I had double paid my first months subscription by accident and was worried that I would not be able to cancel my subscription or get my money back, however Dan Holloway refunded the money from the double payment immediately. You can trust the Dan Holloway fingerstyle guitar website! Dan Holloway's musical arrangements are very complete sounding and very well orchestrated.  Dan's arrangements are well thought out and are playable by intermediate guitarists in most instances.   The songs are noted in standard tab notation along with a teaching video.

Stan Tanaka

I came across this website by chance, and am I ever glad I did.  Tired of strumming along to songs, I've been trying to learn fingerstyle guitar but could not find a teacher or even a decent book with arrangements of songs I'd actually like to play.  Dan's site changed all that. In less than a month, I could pick up a guitar and play full songs, by myself, including the melody, bass line, and accompaniment.  I've worked by way through the beginner pieces and I'm moving up to the more advanced stuff.  And there's a nice choice of songs, from Dylan, Lightfoot and James Taylor, to Hendrix, Dire Straits and Green Day, all nicely laid out for guitar in tab format.  If you're looking to play fingerstyle guitar, then subscribe to Dan's website.  It's worth every penny.

-Brian Ventrudo, Ottawa, Canada

Hi Dan

Great lessons, I'm an intermediate player and it is good how the lessons (rightly) assume that you know the basics of chords, rhythm, right and left hand technique etc and just get on with the job of showing tastful fingerstyle arrangements of songs that are great to play.  The tabs used in conjunction with the video lessons are very helpful and the subscription affordable.  

Cheers 

Errol (Brisbane Australia)

"I found Dan Holloway's website while browsing You Tube for a fingerstyle arrangement of a Gordon Lightfoot song. Dan did an excellent job of "Song For A Winter's Night" and in fact all of the arrangements that I have listened to are outstanding on his website, which led me to subscribe to his lessons. Each lesson consists of two videos, one where Dan plays the song in its entirety, and the second video is his tutorial. There is also a PDF tab file available for each song. I would highly recommend this website for anyone interested in playing fingerstyle arrangements of popular songs."

Bob M.

Through this site I offer quality lessons that will teach you to play fingerstyle guitar. Whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned pro, there is something for you to learn.

I hope you will find my video fingerstyle guitar lessons fun, challenging, and rewarding.

At $9.99 per month, my lessons are a bargain. Consider that the average guitar teacher charges $100 per month, which is roughly $25 per lesson. If you learn one song per lesson that is $25 per song.

I am offering unlimited access to numerous songs at only $9.99 per month. I add new songs every month. If at any time you should run out of material to learn you can simply cancel your subscription. There is no need to call, no need to worry about what day and time your lesson is, and no need to worry about a make-up lesson.

I offer the best way to learn fingerstyle guitar, which is to learn at your own pace.

I look forward to teaching you!

Sincerely,

Dan Holloway