Fingerstyle Guitar Journal is a quarterly digital publication dedicated to inspiring, informing, & nurturing the fingerstyle guitar community around the world
Each issue comes to you as an interactive PDF delivered automatically to your email every 3 months. Each issue includes feature stories, music transcriptions, workshops, reviews, and our Dream Guitar gallery. The music is printable, written in tablature and standard notation, and includes embedded links to videos allowing you to see and hear every piece of music.
By providing a platform to share the knowledge, stories, and music that bring us all together, we hope to encourage guitarists of all experience and styles to continue to learn, listen, and play.
“Long live your publication - an exceptional entry into the world of musical instruction literature.”
- Charles M.
“There is no comparable fingerstyle guitar magazine.”
- Willem A.
“Best fingerstyle magazine hands down…it covers so much in depth from classical to modern fingerstyle guitar approaches, all taught by world-class masters of the instrument.”
- Luis D.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 35 - Spring 2024. This issue includes featured stories on Emil Ernebro and Steve Bell, 6 in-depth workshops, 9 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 34 - Winter 2024. This issue includes featured stories on Walter Rodrigues Jr., Beatrix Kovacs, Alberto Lombardi, Bryan Lubeck, & Go Acoustic Audio, 5 in-depth workshops, 10 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 33 - Fall 2023. This issue includes featured stories on Sean McGowan, Greg Porée, Marianne Verdal, 6 in-depth workshops, 10 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 32 - Summer 2023. This issue includes featured stories on Ladislav Pazdera, Peppino D’Agostino. Roger Schmidt, and Antigoni Goni, 5 in-depth workshops, 9 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 31 - Spring 2023. This issue includes featured stories on Janet Noguera, David Cullen, and Alan Mearns, 4 in-depth workshops, 8 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 30 - Winter 2023. This issue includes featured stories on Calum Graham, Ole Martin Hauser-Olsen, and Noah Zacharin, 6 in-depth workshops, 10 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 29 - Fall 2022. This issue includes featured stories on Stefan Grossman, Declan Zapala, Val Bonetti, and Luke Gard, 7 in-depth workshops, 11 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 28 - Summer 2022. This issue includes featured stories on Stanley Yates and Mark Leggett, 5 in-depth workshops, 8 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 27 - Spring 2022. This issue includes featured stories on Trevor Gordon Hall, Rick Foster, and David Plate, 6 in-depth workshops, 10 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 26 - Winter 2022. This issue includes featured stories on Stan Ayeroff, Olaf Tarenskeen, Mitch Chmara, & Tom Rasely, 4 in-depth workshops, 7 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 25 - Fall 2021. This issue includes featured stories on Joe Robinson, Eddie Arkin, and Craig Wagner, 6 in-depth workshops, 9 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 24 - Summer 2021. This issue includes featured stories on Matteo Mancuso, Emma Rush, Cheryl Yates, and Glenn Roth, 7 in-depth workshops, 9 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 23 - Spring 2021. This issue includes featured stories on Irina Kulikova, Dani Rabin, Steve Lacey, Max Breener, and Troy Gifford, 5 in-depth workshops, 10 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 22 - Winter 2021. This issue includes featured stories on Alex de Grassi, Shane Hennessy, Dylan Ryche, Emma Dean Moseley, Maya Locke, 5 in-depth workshops, 9 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 21 - Fall 2020. This issue includes featured stories on Tatyana Ryzhkova, James DaSilva, and Marius Noss Gundersen, 5 in-depth workshops, 8 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 20 - Summer 2020. This issue includes featured stories on Peppino D’Agostino, Tim Thompson, David Hamburger, and Bill Russell. 5 in-depth workshops, 9 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 19 - Spring 2020. This issue includes featured stories on Ana Vidovic, Rob Piltch, and Gabriel Santiago , 4 in-depth workshops, 7 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 18 - Winter 2020. This issue includes featured stories on Tommy Emmanuel, Regina Bakhritdinova, Mikhail Olenchenko, Enrico Maria Milanesi, and Jerzy Koenig, 6 in-depth workshops, 9 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 17 - Fall 2019. A special issue highlighting the music of Brazil. This issue includes featured stories on Toninho Horta, Sandro Albert, Sergio Assad, Roberto Taufic, Tabajara Belo, Fabiano Chagas, Conrado Paulino, and Genil Castro, 7 in-depth workshops, 13 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 16 - Summer 2019. This issue includes featured stories on Martin Taylor, Ladislav Pazdera, & Ben Coker, 6 in-depth workshops, 8 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal issue 15 – Spring 2019. This issue includes featured stories on Brooks Robertson, Damien Aribert, Rainer Brunn, and Guy Van Duser, 6 in-depth workshops, 9 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 14 - Winter 2019. This issue includes featured stories on Matteo Prefumo, Paolo Sereno, and Alberto Lomabardi, 7 in-depth workshops, 7 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 13 - Fall 2018. This issue includes featured stories on Jim “Kimo” West, Bill Cooley, and Filippo Bertipaglia, 5 in-depth workshops, 6 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 12 - Summer 2018. This issue includes featured stories on Emre Sabuncuoglu, Elodie Bouny, Jonathan Sargent, Michael Hedges – before Windham Hill, and Rodrigo Rodriguez, 6 in-depth workshops, 7 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 11 - Spring 2018. This issue includes featured stories on Trevor Gordon Hall, Irene Gomex, Matteo Mancuso, and Muriel Anderson, 10 in-depth workshops, 12 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 10 - Winter 2018. This issue includes featured stories on Pipo Romero, Stephen Bennett, Mitch Haupers, Daniel Estrem, and Kevin Taylor, 10 in-depth workshops, 11 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 9 - Fall 2017. This issue includes featured stories on Jason Vieaux, Michael Valeanu, and Flavio Sala, 13 in-depth workshops, 14 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 8 - Summer 2017. This issue includes featured stories on Francesco Buzzurro, Nir Hermelin, Brian Farrell, and Katalin Koltai, 9 in-depth workshops, 10 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 7 - Spring 2017. This issue includes featured stories on Meng Su, Alberto Lombardi, and Lior Yekutieli, 10 in-depth workshops, 8 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.
Fingerstyle Guitar Journal Issue 36 - Summer 2024. This issue includes featured stories on Karlijn Langendijk and Bobby Stanton, 6 in-depth workshops, 10 songs including both the recording and manuscript, plus much more.