Udemy Guitar Basics: Fingerpicking for Beginners TUTORiAL

Welcome to the latest class in my series of guitar courses. This class is a beginners guide to guitar fingerpicking. It’s suitable for the complete beginner and works up to some intermediate fingerstyle guitar techniques, applicable to both acoustic and electric guitars. In this course I take you from the very beginning of fingerstyle and show you how to develop great technique. You’ll learn the basics of fingerpicking through 10 different exercises and play along videos designed to help you go from zero experience to feeling comfortable fingerpicking a variety of patterns. By the end of this course, you will be fingerpicking across all six guitar strings.

The main objective of this course is to set you up with great technique so that you can learn any fingerpicking song. This course is perfect for people that are brand new to fingerpicking. It lays the foundation you need to master the art of fingerpicking.

Fingerpicking is a valuable technique to develop and it will help you progress through your guitar learning journey. Fingerstyle technique crosses many genres and adds great diversity to your playing. It helps improve finger strength and independence in both hands, creates access to a wider range of musical styles and adds to the possibilities of your own creative expression.

This class begins with simple picking patterns, which will enable you to learn some well known songs. Along the way, we learn a broader range of fingerpicking techniques and I encourage you to implement these in to your own fingerpicking pattern, which will be the basis of the class project.

There are a handful of chords used throughout the lessons in this class, so if you are completely new to the guitar you might also want to check out one of my guitar basics classes: "Acoustic Guitar Basics" or "Electric Guitar Basics". Those two classes cover every essential topic you need to get up and running on the guitar.

Resources: There is a PDF attached to this class, which contains the tab for each exercise that we work on. Be sure to download the class PDF.

In this course, you'll learn:

How to identify and label which fingers to use when fingerpicking
Some differences between acoustic and electric guitars as it applies to fingerpicking
How to incorporate a metronome into your guitar practice
Several fingerpicking exercises, including movable bass note patterns, Travis picking, pinching, and Travis picking with a pinch
Fingerpicking tips and tricks

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