30 DIY Fingerpicking Patterns You Must Know

World-class players like Doc Watson, Jerry Reed, Chet Atkins, Brad Paisley, Martin Taylor, and Tommy Emmanuel use dozens of fingerpicking patterns and variations to compliment the styling, mood and storyline of their songs.

Gareth Pearson’s collection of 30 Fingerpicking Patterns is an accelerated, hands-on curriculum designed to quickly expand your palette of patterns and show you how to create your own variations for virtually any genre from Americana and Folk, to Rock, Country and even Jazz.

”I’ll show you 30 of my favorite and most useful fingerpicking patterns and variations that can be used across a wide variety of genres and feels. I’ve deliberately selected these 30 patterns so that you can easily connect them, edit them, create your own variations, and make them your own.

Get just a few of these fingerpicking patterns under your belt and you’ll be amazed how they can stylize any tune to keep things fresh and interesting for your audience.”

In addition to performing the pattern with multi-angle views, Gareth will emphasize and demonstrate the right and left-hand techniques that you’ll need a grip on to play the pattern correctly.

Funky Do, The Reed Rumble, Gospel Truth, Mountain Frail, Waltz Boogie, Minor Five Claw, Swing Time, Jazz Move, The Rhapsody Bounce, and Minor 5 Dance are just 10 of the 30 patterns that you’ll have command of after playing your way through Gareth’s entire collection.

You’ll get standard notation and tabs for all of the performance examples. Plus, you’ll be able to use TrueFire’s learning tools to sync the tab and notation to the video lesson. You can also loop or slow down the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace.

Grab your guitar and let's dig in with Gareth Pearson!