Closer Look: Fingerpicking Patterns (JamPlay)
4 Essential and Versatile Fingerpicking Patterns
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About this course
Do the first couple of finger-picking patterns you learned not sound right for the songs you're anxious to learn? That’s a good sign! You’re now ready to step up your finger-picking chops by adding more patterns and textures to your fingerpicking vocabulary. Happily, R.D. King can help you with that!
R.D. will teach you four more versatile fingerpicking patterns here in his “Closer Look at Fingerpicking Patterns” course.
“Finding the right fingerpicking patterns for the song you want to learn can be challenging when starting. In this course, you’ll learn four more patterns: arpeggiation, chorale style, pedal bass, and Travis picking. Each pattern will give you a new ‘texture’ to help expand your repertoire and take your fingerpicking skills to the next level!”
You’ll have TrueFire’s interactive learning tools to customize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
The demonstrations and performances are tabbed, notated, and synced to the video lessons with controls for looping, slow motion, fretboard animation, and other tools designed to accelerate your progress.
You’ll also get the tab and standard notation files to print out and downloadable Guitar Pro files to work with.
Grab your guitar, and let’s dig in with R.D. King!
R.D. will teach you four more versatile fingerpicking patterns here in his “Closer Look at Fingerpicking Patterns” course.
“Finding the right fingerpicking patterns for the song you want to learn can be challenging when starting. In this course, you’ll learn four more patterns: arpeggiation, chorale style, pedal bass, and Travis picking. Each pattern will give you a new ‘texture’ to help expand your repertoire and take your fingerpicking skills to the next level!”
You’ll have TrueFire’s interactive learning tools to customize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
The demonstrations and performances are tabbed, notated, and synced to the video lessons with controls for looping, slow motion, fretboard animation, and other tools designed to accelerate your progress.
You’ll also get the tab and standard notation files to print out and downloadable Guitar Pro files to work with.
Grab your guitar, and let’s dig in with R.D. King!
What you'll learn
- Execute a thumb-index-middle-thumb-index-ring arpeggiation pattern
- Maintain stable right hand position while playing arpeggios
- Foundation for progressing in fingerstyle guitar journey
- Prepare for the 'Autumn' etude with foundational arpeggiation technique
- Understanding four fundamental fingerstyle textures: arpeggiation, chorale style, pedal bass, and Travis picking
Release date: 04/09/2024 • 1h 22m runtime
Sample lessons
Chorale Style Warmup
Concept & Demo
Winter | Part 1
Concept & Demo
Travis Style Warmup
Concept & Demo
What's included
13 lessons • 12 charts
A Closer Look at Fingerpicking Patterns
Exploring fingerpicking patterns for acoustic guitar can be a lifelong journey, but if you're looking for where to start, this is the course for you. Join award-winning fingerstyle guitarist R.D. King and learn four simple fingerpicking studies, each incorporating common picking patterns that are essential tools for learning songs. Each study includes a warm-up exercise and is broken down into easy-to-learn parts that are sure to take your knowledge of fingerpicking patterns to the next level.
Arpeggiation Warmup
Let's begin our study with several simple arpeggiated picking patterns to get our right hand ready for our first etude.
Autumn | Part 1
R.D. breaks down the patterns and chord shapes used in the first half of "Autumn".
Autumn | Part 2
We learn the second half of "Autumn" and perform the etude in its entirety.
Chorale Style Warmup
Moving on to the second etude, "Winter", let's first learn a warmup that helps us practice chorale-style picking.
Winter | Part 1
We learn the first half of "Winter", our study of chorale picking.
Winter | Part 2
R.D. walks us through the second half of "Winter" and performs the study in full.
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