Fingerpicking Practice Plan (JamPlay)

Unleash the Beauty of Fingerstyle Guitar: Master Your Technique, Express with Finesse

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Fingerpicking Practice Plan (JamPlay)

About this course

Enhance Your Fingerpicking Skills with "Fingerpicking Practice Plan," an exceptional online guitar course exclusively available on TrueFire, produced in collaboration with JamPlay. Whether you're a beginner seeking to develop a solid fingerpicking foundation or an intermediate player looking to refine your technique, this comprehensive course is your roadmap to becoming a proficient and expressive fingerstyle guitarist.

Led by expert instructors from JamPlay, "Fingerpicking Practice Plan" provides a structured approach to building fingerpicking skills. Through 40 immersive lessons, you'll learn essential fingerpicking patterns, alternating bass techniques, syncopation, fingerstyle exercises, and melodic fingerpicking arrangements that will unlock a world of musical possibilities.

This course guides you through a progressive learning journey, ensuring that you develop a solid fingerpicking foundation. You'll learn to play beautiful fingerstyle compositions, explore various fingerpicking styles, and gain the dexterity and control necessary to tackle intricate fingerpicking patterns.

TrueFire's state-of-the-art learning platform ensures an immersive and interactive experience. High-definition video lessons, on-screen tablature, and downloadable practice materials make it easy to follow along and reinforce your understanding of each concept. You'll have access to practice routines, backing tracks, and interactive tools that allow you to apply your skills in a musical context and measure your progress along the way.

Elevate your fingerstyle guitar playing with "Fingerpicking Practice Plan." Develop finesse, expressivity, and mastery in your fingerpicking technique, and create enchanting melodies with the touch of your fingers. Enroll now and unlock the secrets of fingerstyle guitar.

What you'll learn

  • Apply open string resonance to create harmonic color over changing chord shapes
  • Execute PIMA patterns with pinching technique at tempos from 80-100 BPM
  • Play movable third interval shapes across the fretboard in the key of E
  • Play the independent lines etude at 80, 100, and 120 BPM
  • Use thumb pivot technique for stability during single-note lines
Release date: 05/17/2021 • 4h 08m runtime
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Sample lessons
Finger Intuition Etude
Finger Intuition Etude
Exercise
PIMA Etude
PIMA Etude
Exercise
Independent Thumb Etude
Independent Thumb Etude
Exercise

What's included

25 lessons • 24 charts • 24 Jam Tracks

Introduction to the 'The Fingerpicking Practice Plan'.
Trevor Gordon Hall introduces us to the 'Fingerpicking Practice Plan'.
Finger Intuition Exercise 1
Finger intuition relates to having comfortable confidence in your finger positioning and string assignments. In this first exercise, Trevor will discuss the Triangle Position, Staccato vs. Free Stroke picking, and will cover a 'C Maj 7 to D sus to E Min add 9 to D sus' picking pattern that will help us foster proper finger intuition.
Finger Intuition Exercise 1
Ok. Now it's time to practice our 'C Maj 7 to D sus to E Min add 9 to D sus' picking pattern.
Finger Intuition: Exercise 2
Here, Trevor will help us to continue working on our finger intuition with this two-finger, ascending and descending, A-Minor to E-Minor picking pattern.
Finger Intuition: Exercise 2
Alright, now let's practice our A-Minor to E-Minor picking pattern presented in the previous lesson.
Finger Intuition Etude
Here, Trevor will provide us with an E-Major Etude that will utilize the finger intuition skills that we've learned thus far.
Finger Intuition Etude
Let's close out Section 1 of our course by practicing the E-Major Etude provided in the previous lesson.

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Reviews

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Scotty77

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02/24/25

Trevor is a great instructor. Very easy to understand. Just getting started on the plan. It should give me some great direction.

mdcarr

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01/21/25

Fingerpicking Practice Plan

Very easy to follow and learn

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