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I've been using a Mel Bay book titled "You Can Teach Yourself Fingerstyle Guitar".  It comes with a CD and is easy to follow.  It's chock full of good exercises and patterns.  I've ignored most of the lessons and just used some of the patterns I liked and then started applying them to songs or making up my own patterns to fit the songs.  But the first dozen lessons or so are critical to getting your fingers to work and how to make them work.  The hardest part is getting your thumb to keep a bass line going while getting your fingers to do a different fill line.  I kind of gave up on doing that and started doing some rhythm stuff with all the fingers just doing their own thing. 

Anyway, as you can tell from my ridiculously loose interpretation, my recommendation is to just jump in after getting a little basic learning, which I expect pretty much any book from a reputable publisher can give you.

Ohio can do that to you.

- Zurf

No.  One of the universe's most vexing and horrible problems to which there is no solution is an easier way to play barre chords.  It is one way we can know for sure, despite the many kindnesses and beauty we may see, that we are not yet in heaven.   In heaven Bm and F#m will be easy, and there will be no cause for playing an "A" shaped barre chord ever.

- Zurf

I'll sing, but I refuse to fade.

- Zurf

Thought it was you Russell.  Will the real genius please stand up?

You know what?  That's not helping. 

Will the real genius please identify himself/herself on-line?  (I think that'll work better than standing up.  No matter how hard I look at my monitor, I can't see y'all typing.)

- Zurf

Well, when my first child came along she was a girl.  My wife and I had always liked the name Sarah, but when we checked the popularity lists, we saw that Sarah had been the number one or two name the two previous years.  So, we skipped using it and selected another name we liked: Abigail.  It hadn't appeared anywhere on the list of the top twenty.  Guess what?  That year, Abigail was a dark horse and took the number two spot for most common name for girls.  So when the second came along, we didn't check the lists and went ahead and named her Sarah.

We had another between them who died before he was born so we didn't get to name, but will always be Peter William in my mind. 

- Zurf

Mine is like that too.  It hasn't seemed to affect the playability of the guitar, which is what I care about.  Well, that and the sound, which also seems unaffected.  Play it till it's broke, then fix it.  It ain't broke yet.

- Zurf

If we're at your house NELA and I left my guitar at home, for the time being yours is definitely better than mine.

- Zurf

Sounds great.  I'm recovering from surgery on my right shoulder and have been practicing casting left-handed.  Ought to be great entertainment for you and your son.  I was organizing my music printouts the other day and came across that one you wrote to sing as a duet with him and prayed for his safety then, and I'll say another for his safe return. 

- Zurf

On a trip, my brother had to go to the emergency room.  He was treated by Doctor Pain.  I think I'd have walked out.

IF THIS IS TOO OFF COLOR MODERATOR PLEASE REMOVE OR ANYONE ASK ME TO REMOVE IT AND I WILL - The principal at a high school a few of my friends went to was Anita Dick.  I attended an elementary school named for Harry Dickey (whom I later met and was a genuinely nice man but his name still gives me the chuckles).

- Zurf

My momma used to hang out with the Statler Brothers, whose real name isn't Statler and only two of the four are brothers.  But she used to hang out with the two Statler Brothers who were brothers and aren't named Statler when she was a girl.  Their momma sent them off to their grandma's house in the summer, and my grandma watched them during the work day (my grandma was a teacher and didn't work in the summer and needed the babysitting money).  Anyway, those boys and my momma ran around the woods and created all manner of havoc and consternation for my grandma.  But that has nothing to do with me.  I haven't ever met a Statler Brother.  Grandma knew Roy Clark too, or so the story goes.  Something about her playing ukelale but I never could get the story and now its too late as both Momma and Grandma have gone to the other side to wait for the Statler Brothers and Roy Clark to join them, though I'll betcha they're wearing out ol' Johnny Cash.  A buddy of mine used to play bass for Roy Clark, so maybe someday I could meet him as unlikely as that seems and if I ever do I'm going to ask him about my Grandma. 

- Zurf

Easy!  The one(s) you own.  I can't play any guitars hanging in the store, but I can play the guitars in my den. 

- Zurf