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Acoustic Fingerpicking Step-by-Step, Level 1A
Description
When playing this Four-Step Fingerpicking Fingerstyle Pattern, you will always want to begin the pattern with a thumb-pluck of the bass note of whatever chord you are playing. This will NOT always be the sixth string. It may be the fifth string, or the fourth string, depending on what chord you are playing.
For instance, the chords E, Em, and G all have their bass notes on the sixth string. But C, Am, and A find their bass notes on the fifth string. And for D, Dm, and F, you'll use the fourth string.
After plucking whichever bass note goes with the chord you are playing, continue with the remainder of the pattern on the highest three strings of the guitar, just as you learned in Lesson One.
Lesson Info
Instructor
Lisa McCormick
Tutorial Lessons
- Getting Started: The Four-Step Pattern
- Changing Chords, with the 4-Step Pattern
- 2-Chord Practice Drill #1
- 2-Chord Practice Drill #2
- 3-Chord Practice Drill
- All the Pretty Little Horses (song to play!)
- Simple Gifts (song to play!)
- Build Your Speed: Practice Drill #3
- Build Your Speed: Practice Drill #4
- The Wabash Cannonball: Prep & Practice
- Wabash Cannonball (song to play!)
- Let's Slant the Rhythm!
- Play it Folky
- Play it Jazzy
- Play it Bluesy
- Hush Little Baby (song to play!)
- Build Your Speed: Practice Drill #5
- Build Your Speed: Practice Drill #6
- Freight Train Blues (song to play!)