Is guitar finger style and finger picking a part of the advanced level in guitar?

I play chords only. I'm taking lessons but i'm on my 8th month.

Then does it come flatpicking,

then after that finger picking?Is guitar finger style and finger picking a part of the advanced level in guitar?
As with all aspects of guitar, there are beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of each. These are techniques, not levels of playing.

Flatpicking in general usually refers to country and bluegrass styles where you use a combination of a pick in conjunction with fingers to play chords and more intricate lines. Often the pick is used to play bass lines and melodic flourishes/solos in this type of playing.

Fingerpicking is a more generic term and can mean any style of using your fingers to pluck the strings, from simple thumb and index finger patterns to more technical classical PIMA style fingerpicking.

Fingerstlye is a term often used to describe styles of jazz and contemporary music.





Here is a very simple fingerpicking pattern that you can do right now. Play a basic chord such as G. Use the thumb and play down from the 6th across the 5th and 4th Then follow that with the index finger playing up from the 1st string across the 2nd and 3rd strings. (thumb plays down 3 then index plays up three) :

-------3-----

---------0---

-----------0-

-----0-------

---2---------

-3----------

This is a simple G chord. Use the method described to play this tab.



You can use this technique with any chord just start on the root note.Is guitar finger style and finger picking a part of the advanced level in guitar?
Depending upon what your instructor chooses to do is primarily the next course to follow. I believe at that stage of choice you should choose for yourself which method of picking you prefer.



I've never been a flatpicker, although at times it would serve me well in playing the "Flight of the Bumblebee," but fingerstyle was my choice early on for me and I have to accept the disadvantages.Is guitar finger style and finger picking a part of the advanced level in guitar?
Using a pick or your fingers is just a preference. There's no noteworthy difference in difficulty. They sound different, you can do different things, but they both take the lots of practice to master. You don't learn one way then "graduate" to the next way.
Picking preference doesn't tell a persons level in guitar... but the more ways you know, the better you'll be.