How To Arrange Songs For Fingerstyle Guitar

I answer a subscriber's question about how I would go about creating an acoustic guitar arrangement of an existing song.

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0:00 Intro
0:32 We Need a Song!
0:50 Quick Disclaimer
1:30 What's The Melody?
3:09 What's The Harmony?
4:11 Melody and Root Notes Only
5:25 What is YOUR Vision?
6:58 Phrasing & Articulations
9:41 What Are Chord Tones?
11:54 How About Passing Notes?
13:21 Which Chord Tones Should We Use?
16:09 The All-Important 3rd
18:17 Am11 and other 'Fancy' Chords
21:40 'Contrary Motion' (More Fancy Music Words)
23:54 Putting it All Together
26:10 The Finished Product -(with TAB)
26:52 BONUS LESSON #1 (This gets deep)
32:07 BONUS LESSON #2 (Unconventional Advice?)
35:21 Wrapping it Up