David Laibman is a master of fingerstyle picking and an entertaining purveyor of ragtime guitar music. He began playing the guitar in the early 1960s and is considered to be one of the founders of modern fingerstyle classic ragtime guitar. David is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. But he also is a fingerstyle guitarist! With Eric Schoenberg, David recorded The New Ragtime Guitar for Folkways Records in 1970. This was a groundbreaking collection of sophisticated and complex fingerstyle guitar arrangements of classical piano ragtime compositions. David’s arrangements of this genre has set the benchmark for piano arrangements being adapted to guitar. These are not for the faint of heart guitarists!

Tablature and music is available as a PDF file for each lesson. Lessons are filmed with multiple cameras and consist of a performance, explanation, and conclude with a slow tempo split screen that follows the tab/music.