Steven King's Fingerstyle Guitar College Online

Solo Fingerstyle Guitar taught by Steven King, USA National Fingerstyle Championship Winner, world-reknown concert and clinician artist. Learn Steven King's acclaimed solo tab guitar arrangments with styles that teach rock, pop, jazz, classical, latin, big band and two beat. Learn the tips, shortcuts, moves, chords, and techniques that give you control of your fingerboard and strings. AND, learn the shapes, moves, and thinking that allow you to ultimately formulate your own guitar arrangements! For six string guitar in standard tuning, this is your resource for learning the art of solo fingerstyle guitar. This approach is equally effective on steel or nylon string guitars, acoustic or electric. Learn the money-making solo guitar style that won Steven King the first place at Winfield's National (now "International" ) Fingerstyle GuitarChampionship.

ALL OUR EXERCISES AND ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE PLAYED BY YOUR COMPUTER, with ability to slow the speed to your learning needs.
This makes learning and uderstanding every move, every sound, so fast and rewarding.

All materials and arrangements include tab and treble-clef notation, and can be played by your computer while the music scrolls along, with the technology of "tef" files. It's all done with the free Tabledit TEFVIEW software - get the free download at www.tabledit.com/tefview. Our thanks go to Matthieu Leschemelle, creator of the Tabledit software, for making this technology free for all to use. He is a true genius, and you may well want to purchase the paid version of Tabledit one day -this is a program that can do it all, once you learn it. Meanwhile, simply download and install the Tefview software (or the Tabledit full version), and open one of our tef files from your program materials or song arrangements, then push space bar to play or to stop play. You can even print out the arrangement or exercises, formatted as you choose. You can alter the playback speed, slow it way down for example, for learning. We list below our recommended parameter settings for the TEFVIEW and Tabledit programs.

NOTE: You have the option to choose PDF files instead of TEF files for all of our songs and exercises.

Example of King's tab printout
Download the Free Tefview Player
Email us your request for a free sample tef file song, no strings attached

Tuition is $95 USD for a 1-year enrollment, or $125 USD for a 2-year enrollment
(after your enrollment term expires, one-year renewal is $36 if you would like to continue, beginning any time you renew)

here's what's included:

-"Some Answered Questions" -a collection of the best questions by former and current Fingerstyle College enrolled guitarists, each one answered in detail by Steven King. These cover the important and subtle details of this most musical style of King's solo fingerstyle guitar approach.

- Computer-playable exercises (using our "tef" files) and program materials are emailed to you, including tab and treble clef lessons, that are in themselves years of college level advanced solo fingerstyle curricula. These exercises are no less than the entire Big Book of Riffs in tef file format, included in the program materials.
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- Access to many fine song arrangements for solo guitar, includes original and public domain songs, all personally arranged for solo guitar by Steven King. and delivered as TEF files emailed to you or PDF files if you prefer. It would be very difficult to find an equivalent level of finess and sophistication in guitar arrangements anywhere. These are your main learning tools, with simultaneous melody, chords, rhythm figures and walking bass lines, not to mention detailed and often unconventional fingerings. And now, using Tefview, to have them up on your screen, seeing them scroll by as the computer plays them at your chosen speed, makes learning fast, efficient and fun.

- Direct email interaction with your professor (Steven King) during your enrollment term for measure by measure guidance with your fingerstyle song arrangements, fingering details, etc.

-Free DVD - available only to enrolled members of Fingerstyle College Online: Steven King playing dozens of his most requested arrangements! See Steven play them up close. Free shipping (in USA). For outside USA email us for the shipping quote, just add this to your tuition. This DVD is not available to the public, only for Fingerstyle College students for educational use.

How to enroll - Use one of these options:

option #1 - if you have a Paypal account, or don't mind creating one during payment:
open a browser to www.paypal.com and click on the SEND MONEY link in the middle of the screen.
When prompted, enter this email address for payment: sk(at)kingofguitar.com replace the (at) with @
Then send tuition of $95 for 1 year, or $125 for 2-year enrollment (US Dollars),

option #2 - if you don't have a Paypal account and don't want to create one, just pay by credit card:
Simply send us an email requesting enrollment using "option #2". Specify one or two year term. We will reply to your email address with a Paypal Invoice (from "S. Michael King") allowing you to simply click on the web URL link to pay by credit card. Include the email address to which all your lesson and arrangement files will be sent (if different than the one you are using to pay), and mention "Fingerstyle College Enrollment" in the "MESSAGE" section. Your program materials will be emailed to you.

option #3 - If you prefer to pay by mail:
send your check made out to Steven King, 28517 N. Perry Rd., Chattaroy, WA 99003-9783 USA. WE SEND OUR PROGRAM MATERIALS AND SONG ARRANGEMENTS BY EMAIL ATTACHMENTS so please include your email address. (add note with your check indicating this is for Fingerstyle College enrollment).

Your enrollment and tuition payment constitutes automatic and implied acceptance of License and Disclaimer printed below on this web page. Upon receipt of your enrollment tuition, you will be sent program materials, including unique fingerstyle lessons by Steven King

Remember to download the free TEFVIEW viewer/player software at www.tabledit.com/tefview. You may make orders for song arrangements at any time during your enrollment period. We simply ask that you order a minimum 3 song arrangements per any order you make during your enrollment term. If you prefer PDF files you must specify this in your order, as we now send TEF files for the free TEFVIEW software.

Your Fingerstyle College program materials are sent to you by email with the files attached. Welcome to your new solo guitar reality as a future master of great solo playing.

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Don't be intimidated by the following, it becomes easy and clear to you once you do it...

Suggested setup options in the TEFVIEW program (to get the most out of the program):
First download the free software at http://www.tabledit.com/tefview/download.shtml   (File named tefv.exe)
Install and open the program, click the SCORE tab and choose OPTIONS
In the OPTIONS dialogue screen:
first click on GENERAL tab and enter the following parameters:
        choose "LINE MODE"
        check the boxes: NOTATION and TABLATURE
        under "verticle spacings" choose (top down): 16, 16, 0
Hit bottom APPLY button
now click on DISPLAY tab and enter the following parameters:
        check the boxes: Auto Chord Diagrams, Automatic Rests, Reading Guides, Note Stems,
                Chords as Diagrams, and Effects in Notation
        choose "As in Notation", "Into the tablature", and "Vertically"
Hit bottom APPLY button
now click on PRINTING tab and enter the following parameters:
        choose "Proportional Note Spacing and choose 3 in the number box at right
        choose "Print Scale Adjustment" and choose 93% (or about that) at right
        check boxes for Print Tuning, Print Bar Numbers, Tied Notes in Tablature, Dotted notes in tablature,
                and Rests in Tablature
Hit bottom APPLY button
now click on SCREEN tab and enter the following parameters:
         check top left box "Fingerboard" and to the right "Horizontal"
         enter 420 in "Ruler Position" box   (or you can enter 0 to put that ruler at the very top of page)
Hit bottom APPLY button
Hit OK button
Leave all other settings alone to remain as they defaulted.
Now simply Hit FILE pulldown and OPEN a tef file. Hit the space bar to start playback, also to stop playback.
You can set the cursor at any measure and the playback will begin there.

Suggested PRINT parameters to enter in TEFVIEW (for if you need to print out a song):
Open Tefview program;   Open your chosen song tef file
choose FILE pulldown, & PRINT PREVIEW
choose PRINT SETUP button
choose GENERAL tab, top left
-choose PAGE MODE
-choose SHOW notation, & SHOW TABLATURE check boxes
-Vertical Spacings:
* between systems =set to 17mm
* between notation & tablature =set to 14mm
* between tablature lines =set to 3
At this point choose APPLY button
choose DISPLAY tab, top
-check mark these boxes & circles:
* Auto Chord Diagrams
* Automatic Rests
* X2
* Note Stems, Top Down
* Chords as Diagrams
* Into the tablature
* Vertically
* Effects in Notation
At this point choose APPLY button
choose PRINTING tab, middle top
-choose Proportional Note Spacing, set to 4
-choose Print Scale Adjustment, set to 100%
-check boxes for:
*Print Tuning
*For All Lines
*Print Bar Numbers
*Tied Notes in Tablature
*And Fret Numbers
*Dotted Notes in Tablature
*Rests in Tablature
At this point choose APPLY button, and OK
Inspect the print preview pages using the << and >> buttons
If you are happy, choose PRINT, or CLOSE
If you would like to force it to print the song in YOUR CHOSEN NUMBER OF PAGES:
-choose PRINT SETUP button again
-choose PRINTING tab again
-choose ADJUST TO: button (in middle) and set to fewer pages
-choose APPLY, OK, CLOSE
-Inspect the PREVIEW, if OK then PRINT, if not reset to more or less pages.
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By the way, you can download one of two FREE PDF creation programs. They install as a PRINTER. So in any program when you print you can choose the PDF creator program as a printer. So instead of a paper printout it creates a PDF file (allowing you to specify file location before saving). The programs to search for on the web are called PRIMO PDF, and CUTE PDF. I mention this because you can format and print in TEFVIEW, and so you can create your own PDFs of the music. (CUTE PDF also works on 64 bit computers)
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Files for tablature arrangements are in PDF format delivered by email.

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