Can I just add that before you start switching chords _as_ you're fingerpicking, practice beforehand on the different chords. If you're new to fingerpicking, you'll be surprised at how much the string heights change as you change chord shapes. So get used to feeling how the different chords feel to your picking hand first and _then_ try switching between chords as you fingerpick.
Lol wut? Are you shutting down someone's obviously empathy filled, experience based, and completely good natured comment in the service of helping fellow humans? Who hurt you? How can we help? @MoGumboFukUTubeForChngngMyName
I went #2 in my pants at the start of a school day when I was in 3rd grade and went the whole day pretending it didn't happen. Even though I threw away my underpants the resonance remained, we have all hurt my friend
lol I love these comments that say "OH MAN IVE LEARNED MORE WITH 2 minutes of video than 10 years of Classes!" lmao Jesus . anyway hope your guitar journey is going well !
Man I love your channel. I just picked up guitar a little over a month ago and I've watched so many of your videos already. You provide so much knowledge here. The first songs I learned were Sublime's What I got and Johnny Cash's Hurt. I just discovered spanish and classical style guitar after having spent the first month learning basic chords like G, A, C, D, and four/five string F's (I can't do that whole barre yet lol.) Last night I decided to try and learn a bit of classical and picked up Malaguena. I've had so much fun playing it that I started looking into finger picking styles and sure enough you've got that here too. I just don't know if I want to convert to nylon strings yet lol. I can't really afford to pay for lessons, so the internet and books are my only source of learning the guitar. Thanks to channels like yours I feel like it's achievable. Keep up the great work!
I’ve started to put some time into learning Fingerstyle because I just don’t like using a pick. These videos are great and you’re a fantastic teacher. Thanks.
DONT FORGET TO SHARE THIS CONTENT WITH YOUR FRIENDS! This guy should have over a million subs. Anyway I love your videos, I have a bunch of them saved so I can go back and find them easily. Self taught (poorly) cleaning up my technique with your help, thanks mate!
Thank you very much for your videos you make. All the lessons, excercises and tutorials. It really helps me to become a better guitarist. I try to do some of your excercises every day and I’ve noted a huge progress in my play. I play much tighter yet more relaxed influencing the sound very positive... Thanks again!
Not being young anymore I am confused and have a mess in my head with so many picking versions. My status is so that I have learned basic thumb independency, my thumb is choosing automatically the right basenote. Thumb assigned to bass strings, fingers 1 to 3 to thin strings as you described at the beginning. Have also practiced the cascading up and down you showed. Have also followed a system only using the index finger but this does not satisfy me, because it is not supporting my previous efforts. Do not know what is worthwile to learn. Do not like to switch to a mode neglecting the aforementioned finger assignment. Btw I am playing with alternating/walking bassline but am novice to fingerpicking. For travis picking I feel to old to start with. Thank you for your advice.
Glad this video came up this makes so much sense. Seems a bit crazy to have all this guitar equipment and not be able to play it because I don't have a little sliver of plastic. I just tried a solo with this method and it works. I think finger picking might even have the potential to sound ever better, more organic, when I get used to it.
When I first started learning fingerpicking not too long ago I actually started by learn the main verse riff of fade to black. I’m pretty sure it isn’t played that way but I’ve found that I really enjoyed learning it and playing it that way. I also recently learned the intro and main riff of So cold fingerstyle; that’s another fun one.
I've been a musician for 25+ years on keyboard, but I'm just starting my transition into lead guitar and finger picking. I must say, as a natural born teacher myself, I can appreciate the format of your video and do not find you that talkative. I feel like I can make guitar my main instrument just by following your videos. Keep doing what you do, you have a new subscriber. :)
i find picking on the electric easier than the acoustic, on the acoustic the r/h thumb has difficulty , i continuously hit the e string, its a coordination that will not fall in to place after yrs of playing, thanks for the info
This particular style is called Travis picking. There are lots of different takes on it (check out Chet Atkins or popular songs like Dust in the Wind), but usually it revolves around alternating bass notes played with the thumb and playing syncopated melody notes with the other fingers.
Thanks so much for your time and patience to teach us so much. I watched quit a lot of your video already and this one is the cherry on the cake as I feel that I can finally play something beautiful and somehow "simple to understand" at an early stage of my learning curve. I am going to check your website next. Keep the great job!
I believe this is known in bluegrass/country as Travis Picking. If you want to go crazy check out Carter Style. That's where you play the melody on the low strings in a kind of walking bass line while the top notes drone.
Great lesson I was trying to just do something finger style in the blind. So I was using the right fingers but I was only using the G B e plucking triads all at the same time and moving up and down the fret board. Sometimes I would reach over the E with my fretting thumb then plucking all 3 strings of the triads. So I was going no where trying to do things on my own but I cant afford lessons for another month. Great lesson I will practice this
Learned from a Classical Book, the secret of finger picking is in the elbow. It must be behind the face of the guitar for your right hand to be in the right position on the strings. Notice this instructor has his elbow well behind the face of the guitar at all times. I guess this is so automatic that nobody thinks to mention it.
That warm harmonic sound when you pluck two or more strings at the exact same moment in time just cannot be achieved with a pick^^ i too rely on a pick mostly
Excellent. Thank you. At the end you mention the next lesson in the fingerpicking series - but I can't seem to find it on your channel. Please provide a link. Thanks.
So I'm just gonna say some stuff here. I'm challenging myself to play an electric 7 string with no pick for a month. But I reccomend to anyone to look into flamenco techniques. I know lessons are expensive but to just youtube techniques is well worth it. I never use a pick on acoustic because I do percussive stuff and it just feels better. I also highly recommend letting the nails on your picking hand grow out a bit it really helps
These patterns remind me of the intro to "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" by Led Zeppelin, it's different but musically similar. Now I kinda want to play it :p
While practicing a long time ago I figured out the MAIN thing for progressing was to make my axes my bitches ! Take them everywhere, to the can, to the porch, and YES to bed ! Laying down and playing helps Greatly for NOT having to look at their necks and feeling where you have to be by ear....
Interesting but I prefer to have a "fixed" location for the picking hand as opposed to hovering above the guitar as it improves accuracy , at least for me.
Do you think you could do a lesson for stairway? Your videos have helped me so much and I figure that it'd be easiest to learn a difficult song from a great teacher
i didn't think you did finger picking stuff.... do you have anything about the tap and pluck technique (I made that term up idk if that's what it's called). But songs when you tap in a steady beat you have to hit a single string while tapping, and I can't do it... and the way i CAN do it the note sounds weird... like BWOOONNGG instead of DING
I found that it sounds very mechanical and unmusical if you give every note the same emphasis. After getting the pattern down it sounded much more like music when I gave a slight stress to the notes played by the middle and ring fingers (the 4th note in each pattern). I think he did the same thing in the vid towards the end. I'm sure stressing other notes also sounds good.
Nice lesson, as always, Mike. I'm a big fan of yours. Please don't take this as a criticism, but can I hear a compressor in action? Cheating a little to even out the volume, buddy? Tee-hee. Keep up the good work, and I'm so grateful that you're making all this great content available for free.
i know you're a mostly rock and metal player but i'd be interested in your opinion of gordon lightfoot's guitar picking skills. "steel rail blues" comes to mind. anyway, just found your channel and i appreciate what you do
Thanks for this, and all your other lessons! You have a great, easy to follow, no-nonsense approach that I can follow. Your videos are really helping me. If I could ask a favor, Would it be possible to add CLOSED CAPTIONING to your videos? I have hearing loss, and that would make it a lot easier for me to follow along. Thanks!
I played classical guitar for 20 years and now I am trying to finger pick my Gretsch guitar. I soooo awkward. It's like I have to retrain myself on the electric doing scales and right hand development for at least a year.
After accomplishing general proficiency on the instrument, I truly wish someone had shown me this lesson. Instead, I had to wait years before I sought help from a couple classical & jazzers to show me chickin' pickin' and P-I-M-A fingerstyle. Dang.
im 53 and learning (after a bad experience when i was very young and poor). The not going to happen is laziness. Hide your picks. Pick up your guitar. You'll figure it out.. or you'll wuss out and go look for your picks. Then whos fault is that??? you can do this. Also check out knopfler...
cdreid99999 You are so right. 62 now & due to my illness things are taking a mighty long time to learn. It's four years now & no way I'm giving up. I am having way too much fun just learning to play. Can't wait til I actually can. Thanks so much Mike. Great help. :=} Steve
I would like to learn how to play jazz chord melody I know music theory but I don't have a much of an ear can you help? also I know the p.i.m.a style of finger style of picking.but does not seem to help.
You reference a first fingerpicking video in this one and it has been really frustrating because I can't find it. ..please label it and make it searchable so we don't waste time thanks
no offense but that is obviously where i looked before i wrote you the question? does anyone else know...actually i could be wrong...i was looking on you tube
not yet...i am just on you tube exploring my first few of your videos...i noticed in the video you referenced a preceding more basic video...I am simply trying to find it..you could just give me a link without trying to sell me something before i am ready to join...or, why have me write back to you twice?...i can find another video elsewhere if it is something you dont want to part with...no worries....plenty of high quality teachers on you tube...i will join another site...thanks
+Steve Jones I told you where the video is but it's on my member site so no link will work. I'm not trying to sell you things, I'm just telling you the facts.
+shawn chaudry I hear ya. But my goal here is not to just convey information. A robot could do that and I have to stay one step ahead of those damn Terminators. The Singularity is coming, are YOU prepared? ;) hehe
+Rob Reekers I want to say it's because I have a poster of Audrey Hepburn hanging next to me but it's actually because I use Pro Tools to record my audio and once in a while it freezes and I don't want to waste a bunch of video if the audio isn't recording.
Fingerstyle on electric! I love it, been doing it forever.
Can I just add that before you start switching chords _as_ you're fingerpicking, practice beforehand on the different chords. If you're new to fingerpicking, you'll be surprised at how much the string heights change as you change chord shapes. So get used to feeling how the different chords feel to your picking hand first and _then_ try switching between chords as you fingerpick.
So true man.
No… no you can’t. Make your own video.
Lol wut? Are you shutting down someone's obviously empathy filled, experience based, and completely good natured comment in the service of helping fellow humans? Who hurt you? How can we help? @MoGumboFukUTubeForChngngMyName
I'm sorry youtube changed your name
I went #2 in my pants at the start of a school day when I was in 3rd grade and went the whole day pretending it didn't happen. Even though I threw away my underpants the resonance remained, we have all hurt my friend
Man, I've only been subbed for 2 days, and I've probably learned more guitar than I have in years of self teaching. Great class!
lol I love these comments that say "OH MAN IVE LEARNED MORE WITH 2 minutes of video than 10 years of Classes!" lmao Jesus . anyway hope your guitar journey is going well !
Solid lesson. I've been playing for 35 years, primarily using a pick, and I've always been a bit of a hack at finger picking. This was really helpful.
I never finger picked much. I grew up on hard rock/heavy metal. Might have to give this a try though. Thanks for the video
try just misplacing your pick.. works for me :P
I felt that way about blues (heresy!). You can only go up by learning new technique.
Nothing else matters has a lot of fingerpicking
I really like the way he does this for beginners, thank you very much, i play cords well, but never got into this type of playing, i really like this!
Yeah but when you BREAK those rules you get Mark Knopfler and that's just a whole new bag of awesome
Amen!
Watching Knopfler play is what made me pick up my first guitar!
@@jimmyhines6706 I think he sold thousands of red guitars for Fender.
Man I love your channel. I just picked up guitar a little over a month ago and I've watched so many of your videos already. You provide so much knowledge here. The first songs I learned were Sublime's What I got and Johnny Cash's Hurt. I just discovered spanish and classical style guitar after having spent the first month learning basic chords like G, A, C, D, and four/five string F's (I can't do that whole barre yet lol.) Last night I decided to try and learn a bit of classical and picked up Malaguena. I've had so much fun playing it that I started looking into finger picking styles and sure enough you've got that here too. I just don't know if I want to convert to nylon strings yet lol. I can't really afford to pay for lessons, so the internet and books are my only source of learning the guitar. Thanks to channels like yours I feel like it's achievable. Keep up the great work!
Sublime and Cash, nice taste man.
I’ve started to put some time into learning Fingerstyle because I just don’t like using a pick. These videos are great and you’re a fantastic teacher. Thanks.
you're the best Mike! thank you for your time and generosity.
DONT FORGET TO SHARE THIS CONTENT WITH YOUR FRIENDS! This guy should have over a million subs. Anyway I love your videos, I have a bunch of them saved so I can go back and find them easily. Self taught (poorly) cleaning up my technique with your help, thanks mate!
U’ve taught me more about fingerpicking than my teacher ever did in this one video, u honestly need more attention👍 stay safe mate
I know Im late to the party, but that "Fleetwood Mac" looks very similar to the technique called "Travis Picking." Very nice.
Thank you very much for your videos you make. All the lessons, excercises and tutorials. It really helps me to become a better guitarist. I try to do some of your excercises every day and I’ve noted a huge progress in my play. I play much tighter yet more relaxed influencing the sound very positive... Thanks again!
Not being young anymore I am confused and have a mess in my head with so many picking versions.
My status is so that I have learned basic thumb independency, my thumb is choosing automatically
the right basenote. Thumb assigned to bass strings, fingers 1 to 3 to thin strings as you described at the
beginning. Have also practiced the cascading up and down you showed. Have also followed a system
only using the index finger but this does not satisfy me, because it is not supporting my previous
efforts. Do not know what is worthwile to learn. Do not like to switch to a mode neglecting the
aforementioned finger assignment. Btw I am playing with alternating/walking bassline but am novice
to fingerpicking. For travis picking I feel to old to start with. Thank you for your advice.
Glad this video came up this makes so much sense. Seems a bit crazy to have all this guitar equipment and not be able to play it because I don't have a little sliver of plastic. I just tried a solo with this method and it works. I think finger picking might even have the potential to sound ever better, more organic, when I get used to it.
When I first started learning fingerpicking not too long ago I actually started by learn the main verse riff of fade to black. I’m pretty sure it isn’t played that way but I’ve found that I really enjoyed learning it and playing it that way. I also recently learned the intro and main riff of So cold fingerstyle; that’s another fun one.
I've been a musician for 25+ years on keyboard, but I'm just starting my transition into lead guitar and finger picking. I must say, as a natural born teacher myself, I can appreciate the format of your video and do not find you that talkative. I feel like I can make guitar my main instrument just by following your videos. Keep doing what you do, you have a new subscriber. :)
Thanks Manuel. I know how to blab but it all has a purpose. :)
What a great way to learn...
Love your Mex Player Plus ! Awesome tone !
i find picking on the electric easier than the acoustic, on the acoustic the r/h thumb has difficulty , i continuously hit the e string, its a coordination that will not fall in to place after yrs of playing, thanks for the info
This particular style is called Travis picking. There are lots of different takes on it (check out Chet Atkins or popular songs like Dust in the Wind), but usually it revolves around alternating bass notes played with the thumb and playing syncopated melody notes with the other fingers.
Thanks so much for your time and patience to teach us so much. I watched quit a lot of your video already and this one is the cherry on the cake as I feel that I can finally play something beautiful and somehow "simple to understand" at an early stage of my learning curve. I am going to check your website next. Keep the great job!
I believe this is known in bluegrass/country as Travis Picking. If you want to go crazy check out Carter Style. That's where you play the melody on the low strings in a kind of walking bass line while the top notes drone.
awesome man!!!! thank you for sharing I love to learn finger picking style.
Great lesson I was trying to just do something finger style in the blind. So I was using the right fingers but I was only using the G B e plucking triads all at the same time and moving up and down the fret board. Sometimes I would reach over the E with my fretting thumb then plucking all 3 strings of the triads. So I was going no where trying to do things on my own but I cant afford lessons for another month. Great lesson I will practice this
I learned finger picking by listening/playing along to old country blues songs by rev Gary Davis&Mississippi John Hurt they were like my teachers 😆
Learned from a Classical Book, the secret of finger picking is in the elbow. It must be behind the face of the guitar for your right hand to be in the right position on the strings. Notice this instructor has his elbow well behind the face of the guitar at all times. I guess this is so automatic that nobody thinks to mention it.
I had to pick up my guitar and check...huh. I had never really noticed that before. Great point!
Something I've always wanted to master...thank!
Hey! That was a great lesson. 😁 Oh, diggin the J Station. Got mine in 2000. It’s still my fav. Gotta love Harman. 🤘😁🤘
I rely solely on a pick, but I've always wanted to try playing without one. I look forward to more fingerpicking videos.
That warm harmonic sound when you pluck two or more strings at the exact same moment in time just cannot be achieved with a pick^^ i too rely on a pick mostly
Whoa the first couple seconds i thought the vid was slowed down (I had just been transcribing). That's ok Mike you the man
Excellent. Thank you. At the end you mention the next lesson in the fingerpicking series - but I can't seem to find it on your channel. Please provide a link. Thanks.
So I'm just gonna say some stuff here. I'm challenging myself to play an electric 7 string with no pick for a month. But I reccomend to anyone to look into flamenco techniques. I know lessons are expensive but to just youtube techniques is well worth it. I never use a pick on acoustic because I do percussive stuff and it just feels better. I also highly recommend letting the nails on your picking hand grow out a bit it really helps
This guy teaches! Give him more money!!
Ok but what about strumming and getting back in position to do finger picking?
amazing!!! hats off brother. id be satisfied if i could sound like that on a guitar with an instructor!
Very interesting lamp in the background
Great video,I just learned a new picking pattern, it's easy and it sounds cool ...I'll be watching part 2 , Thank you!
These patterns remind me of the intro to "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" by Led Zeppelin, it's different but musically similar. Now I kinda want to play it :p
Wicked video brother
While practicing a long time ago I figured out the MAIN thing for progressing was to make my axes my bitches ! Take them everywhere, to the can, to the porch, and YES to bed ! Laying down and playing helps Greatly for NOT having to look at their necks and feeling where you have to be by ear....
where is the first finger-picking lesson you talk about at the beginning of this video?
A great beginner lesson!
The down votes were because of the bar from "Stairway...". (Great lesson).
Interesting but I prefer to have a "fixed" location for the picking hand as opposed to hovering above the guitar as it improves accuracy , at least for me.
Do you anchor your pinkie on the body of the guitar? That's something i learned when i started playing banjo and it transferred over real well for me
Do you think you could do a lesson for stairway? Your videos have helped me so much and I figure that it'd be easiest to learn a difficult song from a great teacher
Your the best dude thank you
Hey thee sorry to bug You where is that other video you mention ?
Thanks this helped
i didn't think you did finger picking stuff.... do you have anything about the tap and pluck technique (I made that term up idk if that's what it's called).
But songs when you tap in a steady beat you have to hit a single string while tapping, and I can't do it... and the way i CAN do it the note sounds weird... like BWOOONNGG instead of DING
Hi
You reference a beginner finger picking lesson at the start of the video. Do you have the link to that video anywhere for reference?
I found that it sounds very mechanical and unmusical if you give every note the same emphasis. After getting the pattern down it sounded much more like music when I gave a slight stress to the notes played by the middle and ring fingers (the 4th note in each pattern). I think he did the same thing in the vid towards the end. I'm sure stressing other notes also sounds good.
Cheers for the video :3
Solid lesson! Thanks for sharing.
Nice lesson, as always, Mike. I'm a big fan of yours. Please don't take this as a criticism, but can I hear a compressor in action? Cheating a little to even out the volume, buddy? Tee-hee. Keep up the good work, and I'm so grateful that you're making all this great content available for free.
The forbidden riff
Like how you called it the Fleetwood mac sequence. Lindsey Buckingham don't use a pick ever
I can’t find the original video that you talked about in the beginning could someone please help me with the title so I could look it up
Do you have a link to the first Fingerpicking lesson? I looked but can't find it.
I like four strings using pinky
Very good!!!
i know you're a mostly rock and metal player but i'd be interested in your opinion of gordon lightfoot's guitar picking skills. "steel rail blues" comes to mind. anyway, just found your channel and i appreciate what you do
very good ,your play with guitar is nice
yes
"Cyclic" is the word for which he was searching.
Cool!
Love it - thank you!
Thanks for this, and all your other lessons! You have a great, easy to follow, no-nonsense approach that I can follow. Your videos are really helping me. If I could ask a favor, Would it be possible to add CLOSED CAPTIONING to your videos? I have hearing loss, and that would make it a lot easier for me to follow along. Thanks!
I never got the hang of finger picking but I wana learn to play things like Stairway and Chet Atkins type stuff
I suck at fingerpicking but it’s cool
Mike, you talk of moving on to more strings in the next video. Which one is it as I cant seem to find it?
You're rad, i really i appreciate u! :)
Hey dude your videos are awesome!! But I can no longer find the one you made featuring that hummingbird technique... did you take it down?
A tele is nice to practice fingerpicking if (like me) you are too lazy to walk across the room and uncase an acoustic. :-)
Hi I am thinking of supporting you on Patreon do ur lessons have tabs?
Hey, my Patreon isn't linked to my lesson site. If you join my lesson site The-Art-of-Guitar.com it contains TAB for the lessons.
Where is your part 1 video. Know how to do links on the screen?
I taught myself to play fast car and never struggled with finger picking again
I played classical guitar for 20 years and now I am trying to finger pick my Gretsch guitar. I soooo awkward. It's like I have to retrain myself on the electric doing scales and right hand development for at least a year.
Study Mark Knopfler his fingers make an electric sound so sweet
After accomplishing general proficiency on the instrument, I truly wish someone had shown me this lesson. Instead, I had to wait years before I sought help from a couple classical & jazzers to show me chickin' pickin' and P-I-M-A fingerstyle. Dang.
Amen!
I waited too long. I'm 45 and it's just not going to happen. I can get by with thumb and index.
im 53 and learning (after a bad experience when i was very young and poor). The not going to happen is laziness. Hide your picks. Pick up your guitar. You'll figure it out.. or you'll wuss out and go look for your picks. Then whos fault is that??? you can do this. Also check out knopfler...
cdreid99999 You are so right. 62 now & due to my illness things are taking a mighty long time to learn. It's four years now & no way I'm giving up. I am having way too much fun just learning to play. Can't wait til I actually can. Thanks so much Mike. Great help.
:=}
Steve
im 45 also and im getting it. slowly but surely. don't give up.
Where is the next video??
How about the Base in D Chord?
I would like to learn how to play jazz chord melody I know music theory but I don't have a much of an ear can you help? also I know the p.i.m.a style of finger style of picking.but does not seem to help.
great video bro
Almost like a banjo roll
You reference a first fingerpicking video in this one and it has been really frustrating because I can't find it. ..please label it and make it searchable so we don't waste time thanks
I do a lot of videos and I believe the one I was talking about is on our site www.the-art-of-guitar.com
no offense but that is obviously where i looked before i wrote you the question? does anyone else know...actually i could be wrong...i was looking on you tube
Are you a member of the site?
not yet...i am just on you tube exploring my first few of your videos...i noticed in the video you referenced a preceding more basic video...I am simply trying to find it..you could just give me a link without trying to sell me something before i am ready to join...or, why have me write back to you twice?...i can find another video elsewhere if it is something you dont want to part with...no worries....plenty of high quality teachers on you tube...i will join another site...thanks
+Steve Jones I told you where the video is but it's on my member site so no link will work. I'm not trying to sell you things, I'm just telling you the facts.
Thank you Markiplier!
Hi! Do you have a link to the beginner finger picking? Thank you for the lesson!
It's on our website. Last time I pointed that out a guy got mad because it's a membership site. ;)
Oh alrighty thank you!
Title should be a great 30 second picking lesson taught in ten minutes.
+shawn chaudry I hear ya. But my goal here is not to just convey information. A robot could do that and I have to stay one step ahead of those damn Terminators. The Singularity is coming, are YOU prepared? ;) hehe
Landslide picking
I've always admired finger-pickers, especially Chet Atkins and Bluegrass banjo players.
what kind of tremolo system do you have on that strat?
thank you bro´
How come you don’t use finger picks
This is for you David Shabbat Shalom
Snark Tuner? Are they good? They seem good
What guitar is that?
I'm having difficulty finding the lesson before this one that he refers to, can anyone tell me?
I may have been referring to my website video lesson. It's been a while now so I forgot. hehe
Great lesson, thanks. LOL Why you keep looking to the right on most of your video's regularly?
+Rob Reekers I want to say it's because I have a poster of Audrey Hepburn hanging next to me but it's actually because I use Pro Tools to record my audio and once in a while it freezes and I don't want to waste a bunch of video if the audio isn't recording.
That make sense. I enjoy your lessons so much, keep on going, you are an amazing guitarist, one of the very best on the tube. Cheers from Holland.
at 0.50 he looks and sounds so high