diff --git a/synthesizer/hparams.py b/synthesizer/hparams.py
index c92b564..629e144 100644
--- a/synthesizer/hparams.py
+++ b/synthesizer/hparams.py
@@ -62,9 +62,11 @@ hparams = HParams(
         tts_clip_grad_norm = 1.0,                   # clips the gradient norm to prevent explosion - set to None if not needed
         tts_eval_interval = 500,                    # Number of steps between model evaluation (sample generation)
                                                     # Set to -1 to generate after completing epoch, or 0 to disable
-
         tts_eval_num_samples = 1,                   # Makes this number of samples
 
+        ## For finetune usage, if set, only selected layers will be trained, available: encoder,encoder_proj,gst,decoder,postnet,post_proj
+        tts_finetune_layers = [], 
+
         ### Data Preprocessing
         max_mel_frames = 900,
         rescale = True,
diff --git a/synthesizer/models/tacotron.py b/synthesizer/models/tacotron.py
index dd6e241..0904c8d 100644
--- a/synthesizer/models/tacotron.py
+++ b/synthesizer/models/tacotron.py
@@ -496,6 +496,15 @@ class Tacotron(nn.Module):
         for p in self.parameters():
             if p.dim() > 1: nn.init.xavier_uniform_(p)
 
+    def finetune_partial(self, whitelist_layers):
+        self.zero_grad()
+        for name, child in self.named_children():
+            if name in whitelist_layers:
+                print("Trainable Layer: %s" % name)
+                print("Trainable Parameters: %.3f" % sum([np.prod(p.size()) for p in child.parameters()]))
+                for param in child.parameters():
+                    param.requires_grad = False
+
     def get_step(self):
         return self.step.data.item()
 
diff --git a/synthesizer/train.py b/synthesizer/train.py
index f1570aa..d299afe 100644
--- a/synthesizer/train.py
+++ b/synthesizer/train.py
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ def train(run_id: str, syn_dir: str, models_dir: str, save_every: int,
                      speaker_embedding_size=hparams.speaker_embedding_size).to(device)
 
     # Initialize the optimizer
-    optimizer = optim.Adam(model.parameters())
+    optimizer = optim.Adam(model.parameters(), amsgrad=True)
 
     # Load the weights
     if force_restart or not weights_fpath.exists():
@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ def train(run_id: str, syn_dir: str, models_dir: str, save_every: int,
                 continue
 
         model.r = r
-
         # Begin the training
         simple_table([(f"Steps with r={r}", str(training_steps // 1000) + "k Steps"),
                       ("Batch Size", batch_size),
@@ -155,6 +154,8 @@ def train(run_id: str, syn_dir: str, models_dir: str, save_every: int,
 
         for p in optimizer.param_groups:
             p["lr"] = lr
+        if hparams.tts_finetune_layers is not None and len(hparams.tts_finetune_layers) > 0:
+            model.finetune_partial(hparams.tts_finetune_layers)
 
         data_loader = DataLoader(dataset,
                                  collate_fn=collate_synthesizer,