Recommended music!

Besides practicing guitar, I always recommend for my students to listen to good guitarists in various styles of guitar.  For this I encourage my students to listen to musicians especially guitarists of various genres of music.  From my own experience, growing up with popular and rock, I later graduated to jazz and classical and then to fingerstyle.  The latest product of my playing reflects the influences of all of these styles.

I have been influenced by a number of guitar styles over the years.  When I began studying the guitar, I started out playing rock and pop, and then gradually moved advanced to Jazz, and then to classical guitar.  For the last several years, I have been very inspired by Fingerstyle  is a style that I have been getting more involved with in recent years.  I like it because it combines elements from many styles of guitar including classical, country, jazz, folk, and pop.  It also uses the concept of the guitarist playing more than one part at a time like the piano.  There are a few incredible players that I recommend listening to if you want to investigate this style.  One of the most influencial guitarists in this style was the late Chet Atkins.  He was an inspiration to many guitarists who play this style today.  Tommy Emmanuel, from Austrailia, who tours throughout the world; Laurence Juber,  who used to be Paul McCartney's right hand guitarist, back in the days of wings, in the late 70's and early 80's.  Juber tunes his guitar to several tunings including DADGAD.  Check out his arrangement of the Beatles, and Henry Mancini's The Pink Panther Theme.  There are some other guitarists as well to check out including Pete Huttlinger, and Adam Rafferty, who both have done terrific arrangements of Stevie Wonder and many others.