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Hey! I’m Nate Savage. In this lesson, we’re going to learn a basic finger picking pattern that everybody needs on playing guitar, okay.
So the first thing you need to know are just a few chords. We’re going to play an A, a D, an E, F#m. Okay, the pattern we’re going to be using for our right hand is real simple, thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, just a regular role, one right after another. So, it would be something like this. If you’re on A chord grab that A note, open A string, this string with your thumb. And then you’re going to grab the next three notes in sequence, the D, the G, and the B string with their index middle and ring finger, just one, two, three, four [Demonstration].
And we’re going to repeat that pattern throughout the chord progression or we’re going to change our route note, the lowest that we’re playing with our thumb to fit whatever chord we’re going to do. So if we move to an E, our lowest note would be playing is an E. And if we play an F#m, the lowest note we’re going to be playing is an F#.
So let me play it for you and then we’ll go to the whole progression, make sure you understand exactly what’s going on.
[Demonstration]
Okay, basically I’m just playing the first chord, an A, playing the sequence on my right hand twice, going to a D chord, playing exact same thing. I’m starting on my D string with my thumb and then playing the top three strings with my other three fingers, play that sequence twice, move to an E chord, EM, go down to your E string, hit that note, start there. And then the top three fingers will begin in the top three strings for this chord, twice, the whole sequence twice. Move up to an F#m, barré chord then you’re going to grab the F# with your thumb right there and then you’re going to grab the index finger, second finger, and third finger, you’re going to grab the D, G, and B strings [Demonstration] twice. Then, you’ll go back to the D chord, do the exact same thing, jump back to the E chord, one last time [Demonstration] and then finish off with A just like you started.
[Demonstration]
So practice this slowly and then fill around through yourself, ask some different chords do whatever you want. Just make it your own and path on and make an experiment with it.
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