Fingerpicking Guitar, Easy to Intermediate, Folkpicking, Bluespicking, Modern Picking Style, Standard and Alternative Tunings, 20 authentic fingerpicking pieces to improve playing skills. – Patterns/ plucked patterns shape the character of the pieces from folk picking, blues to modern finger style. The pieces are arranged in increasing difficulty and systematically develop the playing techniques that are needed for the picking game. Most are in standard tuning. But the open tunings DADGAD and Open-C are also represented. Hans Westermeier - finger picking specialist and author of, among other things, the two-volume textbook Picking Basics - has drawn on his extensive wealth of experience and created a top-class fingerstyle playbook.