Finger
Picking Lesson 1
Finger-picking
is a style of playing the guitar without a plectrum.
Instead you pick the strings with the fingers on
your right hand. This allows you to play non-adjacent
strings at the same time.
In
this lesson you will learn the basic technique used
for finger-picking. We will start with the open
chord of D. If you don’t know it, go to the
basic chords lessons
before continuing.
The
best way of finger-picking is to assign each string
to a certain finger on your right hand. It is normal
to assign the root note (open D string in this example)
to the thumb and the rest of the higher strings
to other fingers. In this case the thumb will play
everything on the open D string, as well as the
G string. The B string will be played by the index
finger and the high E string will be played by the
middle finger.
Watch
the video and take a look at the picking pattern
shown in the tab.
Get
The Tab
Notice
that the first two notes are played at the same
and the rest of the notes are played individually.
The thumb needs to move from the D string to the
G string after the first note.
This
example could be played using the thumb to only
play the root note and the next three strings assigned
to the next three fingers. We will do this in the
next example but I want to keep it simple here.
Practise
this pattern for the D chord, and then try it with
other chords. For 5 or 6 string chords, you can
use the same pattern – just play the root
note and the highest three strings, missing out
the ones in between.
When
you are confident at this, move on to Finger
Picking Lesson 2 for the next example.
Andy
Webber.
Intermediate
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