Here is a List of all blog and podcast posts – enjoy!

• This Secret Weapon Will DRAMATICALLY Improve Your Guitar Playing
• “Bridge Over Troubled Water” – Fingerstyle Guitar (Simon & Garfunkel)
• Slow Blues in D
• Transform Your Fingerpicking Technique in 5 Minutes a Day (Guitar Lesson)
• “In My Life” – Fingerstyle Guitar (2024 Update) – (The Beatles)
• “Ciao Bella” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Original Composition
• Internationales Gitarren Festival Wertingen: Sharing Music with the Next Generation
• “Misty” – Fingerstyle Guitar (2024 Update) – Adam Rafferty
• “Michelle” – Fingerstyle Guitar (2024 Update)- Adam Rafferty (The Beatles)
• “Fly Me To The Moon” – Fingerstyle Guitar (2024 Update) – Adam Rafferty
• “I Want To Hold Your Hand” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (The Beatles)
• How to STOP Left-Hand Wrist Pain on Guitar – Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
• Effortless Barre Chords: Unlock the 5 Secrets Every Beginner Needs – Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Benjamin Simar
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Monteo Fajoto Myers
• “Too Hot” (Kool and The Gang) – Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
• What’s So Great About “Cherokee?” | Adam Rafferty – Jazz Guitar
• 3 Reasons I’ve STOPPED Using a Pick for Jazz Guitar…
• I learned THIS 35 years ago – and I STILL LOVE IT! (“Donna Lee” – Jazz Guitar)
• “Fear of Falling” | Jule Malischke & Adam Rafferty | Fingerstyle Guitar & Vocals
• How to Solo Over “Autumn Leaves” With the Blues (and Pentatonic) Scale | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Frank Stroobandt
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Randy McGowan
• “Billie Jean” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Michael Jackson) 2023
• “Superstition” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Stevie Wonder) 2023
• “Isn’t She Lovely” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Stevie Wonder)
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Brian Crouch
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Nick Northcott
• “Time in a Bottle” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Jim Croce)
• “Kashmir” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Led Zeppelin)
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Peter Langer
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Rick Burney
• “Stayin’ Alive” (Bee Gees) – Adam Rafferty Fingerstyle Guitar
• STOP Using Your EMOTIONS to Play Guitar!
• Capo Catastrophe: STOP Ruining Your Music with This Common Mistake! – Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Heimo Gladik
• Download Your Free “Guitar Mastery Progress Calendar” – Adam Rafferty
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Scott Peck
• 3 EASY Piano Chords EVERY Guitarist Needs to Know (Bach’s #1 Harmony Technique)
• 2 SEXY Jazz Chords for “Ain’t No Sunshine” | Adam Rafferty – Guitar Lesson
• 5 LIFE CHANGING Guitar Skills I Learned from 16 Years of Playing Fingerstyle | Adam Rafferty
• “Every Breath You Take” LIVE – (Sting) | Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
• I Can’t Stop Practicing This BACH Piece (as a Fingerstyle Guitarist…)
• Spice Up Your Blues Guitar With Tasty Jazz Chords | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
• Bach Style Arpeggios for Fingerstyle Guitar | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
• J.S. Bach on Guitar “Jesu Meine Freude” BWV 227 | Adam Rafferty Plays the Zucali Crossover Guitar
• My #1 Music Theory Trick for Guitarists (and 99% won’t do it…) | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
• My “Weird” Right Hand Guitar Technique | Adam Rafferty
• Taylor 314 CE vs Maton EBG 808 C – Acoustic Guitar Shootout | Adam Rafferty
• “Purple Rain” – Fingerstyle Guitar – Adam Rafferty (Prince)
• Your First Jazz Guitar Lesson – Basic Chords
• “How Deep Is Your Love” – Fingerstyle Guitar
• “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” -Fingerstyle Guitar
• How to Play Guitar With Your FEET – Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Craig Relyea
• FGH 0026: Interview with Peppino D’Agostino – Transcendant Guitarist and Composer
• FGH 0025: Interview with Jon Gomm – Singer Songwriter and Fingerstyle Guitar Innovator
• FGH 0024: Interview with Thomas Fellow – First-Rate Guitarist from Germany
• All of Me – Fingerstyle Guitar
• “Mas Que Nada” – Fingerstyle Guitar (2022 Update)
• Study With Adam Guitar Legend – Jörn Bormann
• LEVEL UP Your Fingerstyle Guitar Technique in 5 Minutes | Adam Rafferty Guitar Lesson
• The #1 TECHNIQUE MISTAKE that 73% of Guitarists Make (and How to Fix It)
• “Ain’t No Sunshine” – Electric Guitar (Bill Withers)
• “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” – Fingerstyle Guitar – (Gershwin)
• “Change the World” – Fingerstyle Guitar – (Eric Clapton)
• “Cheek to Cheek” – Fingerstyle Guitar (Irving Berlin)
• “The Look of Love” – Fingerstyle Guitar (NEW version)
• An emotional, LIVE version of “Imagine” | Fingerstyle Guitar
• “Ain’t Nobody” (Chaka Khan) – LIVE | Fingerstyle Guitar
• “Ain’t Misbehavin” (Fats Waller) | Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
• “Superstition” (Stevie Wonder) – LIVE | Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
• “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” (Mozart) | Adam Rafferty – Fingerstyle Guitar
• My Reaction to the “BLUE BOSSA” Jazz Guitar Video With Walter Rodgrigues Jr. (FREE PDF)
• FGH 0023: Interview with Muriel Anderson – Multi Dimensional Fingerstyle Champion
• FGH 0022: Interview with Billy McLaughlin – His Historic Comeback
• FGH-0021: Interview with English Fingerstyle Guitarist Richard Smith
• FGH-0020: Interview with Don Alder – National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion & Vocalist
• Every Breath You Take – Fingerstyle Guitar
• FGH-0019: Interview with Don Ross – National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion & Composer
• FGH-0018: Interview with Jazz and Country Master Guitarist Jim Nichols
• FGH-0017: Interview with Michael Fix – Australian Guitar Virtuoso
• FGH-0016: Interview with Andrea Valeri, “The Prince of The Acoustic Guitar”
• FGH-0015: Interview with Stephan Bormann, Creative and Versatile World Traveler of Guitar
• FGH-0014: Interview with Petteri Sariola, Virtuoso Percussive Guitarist & Singer Songwriter
• FGH-0013: Interview with Joscho Stephan – Gypsy Jazz Guitar Virtuoso
• 10 Things I am Thankful For Today
• FGH-0012: Interview with Ulli Bögershausen – Expressive & Elegant Composer, Arranger and Guitarist
• FGH-0011: Interview with Emil Ernebro – Country, Jazz, & Fingerstyle Guitar Powerhouse from Sweden
• FGH-0010: Interview with Sönke Meinen – Guitarist, Composer and Winner of the 2016 “Guitar Masters” Competition
• FGH-0009: How can you overcome nervousness and panic when playing solo fingerstyle guitar onstage?
• FGH-0008: Interview with Robin Bullock – Celtic Guitar, Mandolin, Cittern and More…
• FGH-0007: Interview with Guitarist Mike Dowling – American Roots, Bottleneck Blues, Ragtime and More…
• FGH-0006: Interview With Legendary Percussive Guitar Innovator Preston Reed
• FGH-0005: Interview With Bill Cooley – One of Nashville’s Most Respected Sidemen and Guitarist for Kathy Mattea
• FGH-0004: Interview With Al Petteway – Grammy & Indie Award Winning Fingerstyle Guitarist and Composer
• FGH-0003: Interview With Tony McManus – Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar Master
• Reclaiming Creative Innocence
• How to Listen to Your Own Guitar Playing
• 9 Ways to Boost Your Creativity on Guitar (and get out of a rut)
• The Joy of Horizontal Musical Flow
• FGH-0002: How do you remember old fingerstyle guitar pieces and also learn new ones?
• FGH-0001: How will practicing 6/8 make my straight 4/4 time better?
• How to Develop Your Thumb’s “Thump” for Fingerstyle Guitar
• 2016 in Review: An Honest and Transparent Look at My Successes & Failures This Past Year
• Practicing Guitar and The Illusion of Perfection
• How to Beat the Devil With Your Guitar
• NEW CD “Play Pretty for the People”, Release Dates 8/30 and 9/6
• Saying No to Distraction and Yes to Yourself
• Discovering Your Guitar Technique
• How to Let Go of Guitar Ego
• Tips For Buying an Acoustic Guitar
• My 2015 in Review – Successes, Failures and What I Learned
• How to Access Your Inner Guitar Genius When Learning a New Piece
• Want Better Guitar Technique? Embrace Your Authenticity
• 3 Tips for Breaking Out of Your Guitar Comfort Zone
• Tour News – Australia “Acoustic Guitar Spectacular” Aug 14 – 22, 2015
• How to Practice Guitar Like Bruce Lee
• What do People See in YOUR Guitar Videos?
• 8 Tips for Playing Fingerstyle Guitar Without Making Mistakes
• How to Get More Paying Gigs Playing the Guitar
• It’s LIVE! Try ‘Study With Adam’ Free for 14 days…
• Q & A about “Study With Adam” [launching tomorrow]
• Win an iPad Mini When “Study With Adam” Launches
• “Study With Adam” Website Launching April 14, 2015
• How You Can Apply Aikido Principles to Fingerstyle Guitar
• Do You Need a College Music Degree?
• Learn Guitar Technique, then Throw it Away
• Thumb and Finger Independence for Fingerstyle Guitarists
• What’s the Best Approach for Improving Your Guitar Technique?
• Practicing Guitar and Your “Happy” Brain Chemicals…
• Should You Use a Thumb Pick for Fingerstyle Guitar?
• How to Achieve Maximum Confidence for Performing Fingerstyle Guitar
• Don’t Wash Your Face Before a Fingerstyle Guitar Gig!
• My Personal Fingerstyle Guitar Setup Measurements
• Adam Rafferty Rethinks Recording CDs & Distribution
• Practicing Music or Practicing Guitar Technique – What’s Better?
• Announcing – the “Fingerstyle Favorites” iPad Mini Winner!
• 4 Tips for Keeping Your Guitar Arrangements Under Your Fingers
• OPERATION BROOKLYN – signing 100 “Fingerstyle Favorites” DVD’s
• Win an iPad Mini from Adam….
• “Fingerstyle Favorites” DVD launching Tuesday July 8, 2014
• For Fingerstyle Guitarists – Effects & Tapping vs Melody
• 2014 – Adam Rafferty – Russia Tour Dates Just Added
• How to Stay Focused and Finish Big Projects – A Brick a Day
• Spring Tour 2014 & New Video “Just the Two Of Us”
• Should You Use Classical or Fingerstyle Guitar Technique?
• Music, Matter and Form
• Discipline, Daydreaming and Your Musical Mind
• As I Began to Love Myself: Charlie Chaplin on his 70th birthday
• How to Do Outrageous Musical Marketing
• A Personal Transparent Update & 2014 plans
• An Amazing and Creepy Coincidence
• How To Create Info Products from the Heart (and a Guitar DVD Update..)
• Home Studio Gear For Recording Great Sounding Fingerstyle Guitar
• 7 Tips for Making a Great Fingertsyle Guitar Recording (and…it’s not about the equipment!)
• How a Digital Diet Can Make You a Happier Person
• 10 Tips for Healthy Guitar Practicing
• 6 Pieces of Guitar Gear I Can’t Live Without
• Rhythm, Pitch and Your Musical Soul
• How To Build Your Own Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangements – Part 1
• The Day I Got My Butt Kicked in Harlem
• 2012 in review
• The Pitfalls of Learning Guitar from Youtube
• What You Can Learn About Practicing Guitar from a Classical Pianist
• Commitment vs Flirtation
• What is Your Musical “Slam Dunk”?
• 7 Essential Tips for a Stress Free Sound Check
• How to Kick Butt on Guitar – Creativity Plus Discipline
• How To Record Guitar For Youtube Videos
• If Paul McCartney Can’t Read Music, Why Should I?
• What’s More Important – Musical Essence or Technical Perfection?
• The Musician’s Cure to Social Media Madness
• My Formula for Musical Audience Connection “C + Y = R”
• Stevie Wonder Gives the Thumbs Up on the Guitar Arrangements!
• What You Can Learn from the Joshua Bell Story
• What’s in it For Them?
• Which Free Bonuses Would You Want with the Upcoming “How To Play Stevie Wonder Fingerstyle Guitar Volume II” DVD?
• The “Tweezer Technique” for Fingerstyle Guitar
• How to Improve Your Guitar Sound – Mentally!
• Guitar Right Hand Technique – Nails vs Flesh?
• 7 Tips for Dealing With Stage Fright and Nerves
• How To Create a Great “Set List” For Musical Performance
• As Above, So Below…on the Guitar
• How to Train Your Brain!
• Hitting “Plateaus” in Guitar Practice
• “I Remember Michael” Voted by Jazziz Magazine as a Top 10 CD of 2011 (Critics Choice Award)
• You Can’t Learn This From YouTube
• Perception – Ain’t it a Bitch?
• Do You Have New Years Resolutions? Consider This…
• Passing Inspiration Forward
• How to Sell Your Music Without Selling Your Soul – Part 1
• Gear Outside, Tone Inside
• Silence
• Coffee and Music With a Side Order of Brains, Please
• Little Changes – Big Difference
• Longo’s List – 10 Study Areas of Music
• Thoughts on the Road: Just Go For It!
• Your Chops are Your Concept
• Garbage Bags and Inner Peace
• Preparing for Stage Performance
• How To Write a Song – (Reprise – A la Seth Godin)
• How to Write a Song
• Music: There’s More Than One Way to Do It
• Everyone Needs a Coach
• Michael Jackson Guitar
• Nerves and Gigs: Particles or Waves?
• “I REMEMBER MICHAEL” Michael Jackson Solo Fingerstyle Guitar Tribute CD by Adam Rafferty – Coming Soon!
• Some thoughts on Music “Success”, “Making It” and “PR”
• Keeping Promises to Yourself
• Cause and Effect
• What Do You Spend Your Days Doing?
• The Pinky Finger and the Sistine Chapel
• The Bandstand is Sacred
• How To Achieve Originality in Your Music
• Inspiring Others Makes it All Worth It
• Long Term vs Short Term – Craft vs Overnight Success
• With Easy Fame Available on Youtube, Why Bother Developing A Craft?
• Adam Rafferty – “Lovely Day” – Bill Withers – Solo Fingerstyle Guitar
• The Message in the Music – Part One
• Technical Perfection Invites Spirit
• Feeling the Warm Fuzzies
• The Michael Jackson Fingerstyle Guitar Sessions – A Musical Mastermind Meeting
• Les Paul’s Son Gene Gives Me a Guitar Lesson
• A 15 Year Old Guitar Player asks “Do you arrange all your Michael Jackson guitar songs by ear”…
• Musicians – Please Stop “Making It Big”
• Adam Rafferty LIVE: “Play It Back” – Guitar and Human Beat Box
• Surviving the “Ouch!” of Criticism
• Listening Deeply Can Transform Your World
• Settle for Nothing But Excellence
• Alert – You may Have Been Unsubscribed from Adam Rafferty’s Email List by Accident!
• Whazzup with the blog title “Guitar and Spirit?”
• How You Do One Thing is How You Do Everything
• The Michael Jackson Fingerstyle Guitar Sessions – Coated Strings and Guitar Intonation
• Technorati
• How To Practice Guitar If You Have Just an Hour A Day
• Groove is Another Form of Love
• What is Your Ideal Listener Profile?
• A Fingerstyle Guitar Lesson from Drummer Alvin Queen
• Playing Guitar True To Oneself
• When You Change One Thought You Change Everything
• Guitar Spotlight: Soenke Meinen
• Guitar Practice Techniques to Program Your Subconcious Mind
• A New Social Media Technique For Musicians Called “ECKMA”
• How to Be A Visionary and Avoid Kryptonite
• What, So What, Now What?
• We are Living in an Exciting Era for Fingerstyle Guitar. Where’s it Going Next?
• Youtube Copyright Violation, Prince, Van Morrison and an Impossible Task
• How Big Goals Define Your Daily Activities
• Jackson Five Guitar DVD Update – Video Shoot Done…Edits on the Way!
• Awakening to Your Own Inner Harmony
• A Financial Solution for Youtube and Music Publishers
• Adam Rafferty and Tommy Emmanuel – “Tenderly” – Helsinki, Finland April 3, 2009
• Adam Rafferty – Superstition by Stevie Wonder – Solo Guitar
• Stevie Wonder Solo Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangements Lesson DVD with Tablature – Adam Rafferty
• Adam Rafferty – “I Want You Back” – Jackson 5 – Solo Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar
• Adam Rafferty – “Rock With You” – Michael Jackson – Solo Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar
• Adam Rafferty – ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ – Bonnie Raitt – Solo Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar
• Adam Rafferty – “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson – Solo Fingerstyle Guitar
• Critical Info for Youtube Musicians Who Perform Cover Songs
• Guitar Spotlight: Smokin’ Joe Robinson
• Spring 2010 Tour Highlights, Miracles and Averted Catastrophes
• The Rope, the Snake, and a Happy Ending for this April Fool
• Roll Over Amadeus!
• Financial Tip for Touring Musicians – The Numbers Don’t Lie!
• Greets from The Road – Voelklingen, Germany
• Practicing “The Gig” vs. Practicing “Guitar”
• Meditation, Affirmation, Vibration and Groove
• Love, Eternity and Watching Life Flow By
• Adam Rafferty – Message to UK Fans & Free Cd Offer
• Diving Back Into Life
• Vision Boards – Tapping True Spiritual Magic
• The Magic of Yearly Goal Setting
• A Glimpse into Attachment and Aversion
• Tour Diary – Dukkha in Cologne
• Quantum Physics and Music: Upward and Downward Causation
• How to Meet Adam Rafferty in Your Hometown While on Tour
• The Bangkok Guitar Lesson and New Goals
• Happiness for No Reason At All
• Letting Go
• A Perfect Reminder
• Planting Seeds in the Mind
• Allowing Transparency
• Christmas in August – Recording on the Road
• Busy and Joyful in Nashville
• A Taste of Eternity
• Attention Artists! Success Comes from Within…
• It is all Much Stranger Than We Think; Michael Jackson Remembered
• Savoring Your Accomplishments
• Why Achieve Goals?
• Youtube Recording Technique for Guitar Videos
• Causless Happiness
• VIDEO – Adam Rafferty and Tommy Emmanuel play in in Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Finland
• Tour Greetings From Helsinki, April 6 2009.
• Are You Thinking Big Enough? Am I?
• Cohesion, Life Force and Music
• The Secret to Improving Your Guitar Skills and Battling Frustration
• The Ever Clever Litte Ego
• Listening
• The Gimme Trap
• Adam Rafferty Tour Diary 11/15/08 – Guitar Air Travel Tactics
• Greetings from The Road Again – European Tour Update 11/9/08
• The Miraculous Nature of Manifestation
• A Note from 10,000 Feet
• Eating Frogs…mmmm Yummy!
• Adam Rafferty Gig Review @ The Bug Theater – Denver, CO Sept 9, 2008
• Introducing the Human Web Browser
• Adam Rafferty Gig Review @ Henflings – Ben Lomand,CA 8-21-08
• Steep into the Blues and then Jazz is Easy – 2008 Bay Area Guitar Workshop
• Don’t tell me you can groove – (Part 2)
• Don’t Tell Me You Can Groove…Show Me!!!
• Adam Rafferty and Friends LIVE @ The Bar Next Door, NYC Gig Review 7/20/08
• Greetings from CAAS in Nashville, TN!
• Stillness at 7am and Pervading Peace
• Letting Seeds Grow
• Huh? Licensing & Copyrights On The Web? I thought is was FREE?
• The Importance of Art and The Excellence of Tommy Emmanuel
• Giving a Free Sample Away Now; Receiving Later After the Buffer of Time
• Music and Magic
• Are Your Goals Supported by Your Environments?
• Is the picture out there, or in here?
• Jazzheads, meet everyday folks who love music! Folks, meet the jazzheads!
• Back home in NYC, and still “Kentucky Fried” – Mission Accomplished!
• Tour Diary: Greetings from Charleston,WV Again!
• Tour Diary: Greetings from Charleston WV!
• Greetings from Morehead, KY – “Americana Crossroads” Interview
• Tour Diary – Greetings from Louisville, KY!
• Tour Diary- Greetings from Leesburg VA 5-10-08!
• Adam Rafferty on Tour May 2008: Kentucky Fried Pickin’, BOSE L1, Visualization and more…
• Adam Rafferty On the Road: April 2008 Europe Tour Review
• Things are a Changin; Right Livelihood in the ‘Hood!
• Don’t Use a Metronome
• Safe Air Travel with an Acoustic Guitar – Part 2
• Adam Rafferty Mini Tour in PA 2/2008 – Review
• Thoughts Become Things and Things Become Thoughts
• Organize and You’ll Be More Productive and Happier
• Musical Imitation, Realization and Maturity
• Are You a “Do it Yourself” Type Person?
• Changing Your Reality By Visualizing
• Get Good Enough Out of the Way; Make Room for Great
• The Mastermind Group
• The Healing Powers of Music: Part 1
• Freedom From The Approval of Others: PERSONAL VICTORY!
• Human Beatbox and Guitar….Fun!
• Adam Rafferty @ 169 Bar 10/19/07 – Concert Review
• Practicing is Just Watching, That’s All
• The Butt Technique
• Gratitude is the Present
• Forget Time and Be Here Now
• Some Mumbo Jumbo and a Music Lesson
• Forget Results
• Letting Go of Feelings
• Rock vs. Jazz, Part 1
• Letting Go of Wanting
• Allow it to Happen
• Why I Play “The Hunt” – a Song by Tommy Emmanuel
• Providing Contrast For an Audience
• Connecting With Another Person
• Rhythm
• Gratitude
• Say Goodbye to The Shiny Silver Disc
• Wanted and Unwanted
• Motivation vs. Inspiration
• The Buffer Of Time and Manifesting Anything You Want
• The Benefit of Welcoming Unwanted Feelings
• Technically Correct vs. Spiritually Correct (Music)
• The Better it Gets, The Better it Gets
• Welcome