It took me literally years to build the travispicking coordination. Now it is so natural to me. I can do it without thinking. Hard work and regular practice pays off for sure.
i learned this from a singer named andrea von kampen! he had a video tutorial on her tiktok but it sadly got deleted but i mastered travis picked within like 1 hour when she released that video
Basically anything from Doc Watson. Deep River Blues is okay, but all anyone seems to talk about. I like “Moody River”, “Ready for the Times to get Better”, and “Bright Sunny South”, among others
I’ve been a flat picker for years but now at 59 I am venturing into finger picking. I’m primarily a songwriter but I need to add to my tool box and Travis picking is important. Thanks for this tutorial.🎶
Thank you very much I've been meaning to learn travis picking for a while now and i seem to have picked up some kind of rhythmic pattern using your step by step guide. I will keep chipping away at it. I Appreciate you 👍
I've been fingerpicking for decades. I have a pattern, kind of a varying rolling rotation, that is so ingrained in my brain that when I try alternate bass picking, I almost immediately fall into my pattern. I've pretty much given up. My patterns sound fine though.
After 25 years of playing, I’ve learned that I know little. I mean I’m alright. Friends and acquaintances say I’m good, however I feel like my playing is lacking the roundedness that fingerpicking provides. I can do some, like to play Metallica’s nothing else matters for instance. But I need to really practice this stuff. When I get home from work I’m gonna give it a go.
I am wanting to learn John Denver’s music, have been playing since the late ‘80’s, when time allows, then quit playing for a few years, and trying to learn this technique, why I started off with Classical Guitar, played for a couple years in college. Now really committed to learning JD music due to his Travis Picking. Have an acoustic as well as electric.
Travis picking always makes me think of the funny rhyme: A centipede was happy, quite Until a frog, in fun Said, 'Pray, which leg goes after which?' This worked her mind to such a pitch She lay distracted in a ditch Considering how to run.
70 yr.s old. , man I've been trying to learn this , for Peter Paul & Mary; & some Dylan stuff , great slow clear explanation , thank you so much , you have a new subscriber , thanks , moe
Hi there- learning this etude song you are playing- do u have tutorial for whole song as in the beginning of this video- want to see which notes u are using especially when changing to f chord
Hi there the noted I need are when within the first 4 seconds at the start of the video when u go to f chord- very cool notes u Putin- please respond if u can
i feel like learning from Mr. Miyagi :) i learned a lot of such excercises but when trying to get som John Hard songs...no way to get the melody right. thanks for sharing
Some examples of guitarists who use travis picking include: Merle Travis (All the Time) Chet Atkins (All the Time) Mark Knopfler (Sometimes) Arlo Guthrie (Sometimes) Stephen Stills (Sometimes) Bob Dylan (On a few Songs)
I just started Travis picking a few months ago when i started learning some Blaze Foley tunes. Blaze is/was amazing. And you're right, it is so fun to play. So far i've learned Clay Pigeons, Cold, Cold World, Moonlight Song and Small Town Hero by Blaze. Clay pigeons and Small Town Hero are my favourite for sure. Still have a lot more by Blaze that i wanna learn yet.
Great instruction. Very clear and concise but I'm not too sure about playing a Taylor while wearing a Martin shirt. Some protocol may be being violated.
Howdy. I'm happy to have come across your channel. Would you mind giving us a tutorial on Chet Atkins picking on "Do I ever cross your mind"? Such a exquisite tune, but I can't seem to nail the nuances. Any help would be awesome.
I’m 67yrs old and am now getting pretty good at fingerpicking but arthritis or something is coming on fast and scares the crap out of me!!! Is there any secret to help? (Great lesson, btw! Thanks!)
Thank you very much awesome video love Tommy Emanuel playing an energy on the guitar he’s the one that has me on this kick an your video has given me real hope to accomplish this goal of Travis picking thank you.👍🏾🎸
If you were using fingers, would you touch the next adjacent string?(pluck into a brief resting on next stg?) is it ok to just finger pick 1 string, when using fingers, as you are doing with your pick? I am trying to relearn, as I finger pick playing string individually, meaning not plucking into next string. so hard to explain and SO DIFFICULT to find this answer on line; I may stick to how I am doing it.
The way you do the fmajor chord with the tip your index finger being past the 6th string like that seems easier than the way I've been doing it. Nice haha
I've always done this by ear. But you have to start with root note??? In beginning you said to start with root note.. also... what about d chord.. I'm struggling with that one. I'm only two years into guitar so I'm a beginner and still learning. But do alot by ear
Wow good for you Pbarry. I can play using Travis picking. However I've never Liked the way I sound. This tutorial is great, having better results, fun as well! Your right "it takes investment time". Thanks
The hardest part of Travis picking...is forgetting the haphazard picking with any finger that you are used to with no regards to a pattern. 30 years noodling around campfires...my picking style is anything but this...this seizes up my brain. I wish I had learned this 30 years ago.
I've found just the opposite. Learn a simple song, especially in an open tuning like D, maybe even monotonic bass. Your brain picks this up pretty fast and as it does your thumb becomes subconscious within the narrow confinement of a single song, letting you concentrate on melody. Get good at it and watch yourself, finding and fixing weaknesses. What next? A new song presenting a few new challenges. After several songs, well you've got a small repertoire and have subconsciously internalized so many coordinated motions, learning more new songs, including in standard tuning that can be tougher, becomes much easier. Just my take.
On your picking hand, you have excellent hand position there. It's very important for players to hold the thumb to finger ratio at a "45 degree" angle. (Brooks Robertson explains that in a Truefire lesson. It was taught to him by Buster B. Jones.) It's basically making sure your thumb is *not* over your pointer finger; it's hard to tell exactly from your camera angle, but it seems you're holding your hand appropriately: your thumb pick is about an inch closer to the fretboard than the pointer finger. Just trying to help people (like me who started learning Travis Picking by ear in the mid 1980s) not have to unlearn a bad habit many folks make. I see a lot of guitar "teachers" on RUclips * Guitar World teaching Travis and Boom*Chick (think Jerry Reed, Tommy Emmanuel,...) lessons without proper pick hand technique. The 45 degree angle makes it possible to play really fast without your thumb tripping over your pointer finger when pinching and boom*chicking. You are a very good teacher! I'm glad I found your channel. Beautiful guitar, too! (I have subbed. I can no longer play due to spinal injury, but I love watching others play. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!)
If anyone is getting frustrated with this, its good to know that when you sleep your brain learns and remembers how to perform physical tasks you've encountered during the day. The more you make it a problem that your brain is trying to solve, the more your brain will focus on it during your sleep, and you should notice yourself getting incrementally better each day. This helped me keep going when learning this and helped me take a calmer approach without getting too frustrated and giving up. You usually wont improve much within one given day so practice as much as possible and make sure to get a healthy amount of sleep and you'll have it down much faster, the increments will be minor at times but every now and then you'll be surprised at the noticeable step forward you took :)
I need to ask because I can't tell. I picked up my guitar a month ago and I just watched this video now and I can do it a bit faster than his slow version before he does the fast one near the end. I started working on finger style from day one, but did he just mean getting the speed could take months or years? I'm very unclear on what he meant
TheDaarkWarrior Pretty sure his point was just alluding to the fact that everyone is different, some people catch on faster, some people have very limited time to practice, some folks struggle or are complete beginners. There’s no set time for how long it takes to learn.
How common is it using hybrid style to pull off clean and authentic "Travis picking sound"? I can just never get comfortable with a thumbpick, but I've been a fairly accomplished hybrid picker for 30 years. I find hybrid so incredibly useful and versatile in both acoustic and electric playing.
@@philipwilliams5808 Ha ...it does feel like that . After months of practising the thumb on the bass notes have at last broken into adding a string with the index finger . I see a glimmer of light !
There is actually a fantastic guide for introducing Travis Picking with that song! Look up the channel 'Song Notes'; great intro to the song (though it is taught in the way that Prine played it).
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Enjoy the journey
Excellent tutorial. Clear precise no gimmicks. And a nice guy who's not shilling every 2 mins. 👍
It took me literally years to build the travispicking coordination. Now it is so natural to me. I can do it without thinking. Hard work and regular practice pays off for sure.
Muy buena lección, maestro.
Muchas gracias.
Thank you. A great lesson. 👍👍👍
That's great
Thanks man!
You are an awesome instructor
I love fingerstyle👍
i am learning dust in the wind ,,,, its a bit hard but .... i am keeping at it .
i learned this from a singer named andrea von kampen! he had a video tutorial on her tiktok but it sadly got deleted but i mastered travis picked within like 1 hour when she released that video
I'm 96 and just started this.
Excellent tutorial!
Great breakdown!
Thank you.
Basically anything from Doc Watson. Deep River Blues is okay, but all anyone seems to talk about. I like “Moody River”, “Ready for the Times to get Better”, and “Bright Sunny South”, among others
Thanks, I’ll get onto that soon.
Great lesson. Thx
Anything by John Moreland. "You don't care for me enough to cry" is a great example.
Thanks
Thanks man, that was very helpful!
Love this advise. Brillant
I’ve been a flat picker for years but now at 59 I am venturing into finger picking.
I’m primarily a songwriter but I need to add to my tool box and Travis picking is important. Thanks for this tutorial.🎶
Like how you teach. Thanks
Julia by John Lennon One of my favorites.
10 years and counting working on the thumb bass notes I'm getting there😊
Thank you very much I've been meaning to learn travis picking for a while now and i seem to have picked up some kind of rhythmic pattern using your step by step guide. I will keep chipping away at it. I Appreciate you 👍
Great lesson, thank you. Slow Cheetah by RHCP is a nice one to learn.
Very helpful lesson
You will do it its like learning the ABC's for music
Thank you, being a classical guitar player the PIMA really helps!
Thanks...
I've been fingerpicking for decades. I have a pattern, kind of a varying rolling rotation, that is so ingrained in my brain that when I try alternate bass picking, I almost immediately fall into my pattern. I've pretty much given up. My patterns sound fine though.
Really good tutorial!!!
Please post the next step. We just want to learn to play as you did at the beginning of the video. The melody is so nice.
Hi, just watching this and it’s very nice 🙏🙏.. my question is “while playing, should the bass strings still be muted by the palm”
Yes
Sweet,,,,,thanks bunches.....
After 25 years of playing, I’ve learned that I know little. I mean I’m alright. Friends and acquaintances say I’m good, however I feel like my playing is lacking the roundedness that fingerpicking provides. I can do some, like to play Metallica’s nothing else matters for instance. But I need to really practice this stuff. When I get home from work I’m gonna give it a go.
Great video
Excellent thanks
I'm Excited and looking forward on learning how to Travis pick I just Need to get my hands on a Thump pick
Thank you very much, I'm going to practice this today 🤗🤗🤗😍😍👏👏👏
Great video.
great iv been playing the guitar for a long time allways wanted to play finger picking this is a great lesson thanks.
Landslide by Fleetwood mac
I am wanting to learn John Denver’s music, have been playing since the late ‘80’s, when time allows, then quit playing for a few years, and trying to learn this technique, why I started off with Classical Guitar, played for a couple years in college. Now really committed to learning JD music due to his Travis Picking. Have an acoustic as well as electric.
Nicely done
Great video. I’m looking to try some Simon and Garfunkel songs.
I like how he included tabs
Can u teach Windy and warm
Travis picking always makes me think of the funny rhyme:
A centipede was happy, quite
Until a frog, in fun
Said, 'Pray, which leg goes after which?'
This worked her mind to such a pitch
She lay distracted in a ditch
Considering how to run.
I can try. I have 2 jobs on the go but one is getting dry walled the other I may get done tomorrow.
70 yr.s old. , man I've been trying to learn this , for Peter Paul & Mary; & some Dylan stuff , great slow clear explanation , thank you so much , you have a new subscriber , thanks , moe
Keep picking Moe and try a John Prine song soon
I love Travis picking! Lol
Nice lesson!
Hi there- learning this etude song you are playing- do u have tutorial for whole song as in the beginning of this video- want to see which notes u are using especially when changing to f chord
Hi there the noted I need are when within the first 4 seconds at the start of the video when u go to f chord- very cool notes u Putin- please respond if u can
i feel like learning from Mr. Miyagi :) i learned a lot of such excercises but when trying to get som John Hard songs...no way to get the melody right. thanks for sharing
Some examples of guitarists who use travis picking include:
Merle Travis (All the Time)
Chet Atkins (All the Time)
Mark Knopfler (Sometimes)
Arlo Guthrie (Sometimes)
Stephen Stills (Sometimes)
Bob Dylan (On a few Songs)
John Prine had his own version of Travis picking and its hard to play his songs without that style.
Just trying to learn finger picking. 71 years old and a definite challenge! I've always played rhythm strumming. But am enjoying the challenge
I just started Travis picking a few months ago when i started learning some Blaze Foley tunes. Blaze is/was amazing. And you're right, it is so fun to play. So far i've learned Clay Pigeons, Cold, Cold World, Moonlight Song and Small Town Hero by Blaze. Clay pigeons and Small Town Hero are my favourite for sure. Still have a lot more by Blaze that i wanna learn yet.
May I ask what if it is Root D,what pattern you are use?D-A-D-E?D-A-D-A?or D-E-A-E?
Great instruction. Very clear and concise but I'm not too sure about playing a Taylor while wearing a Martin shirt. Some protocol may be being violated.
Howdy. I'm happy to have come across your channel.
Would you mind giving us a tutorial on Chet Atkins picking on "Do I ever cross your mind"?
Such a exquisite tune, but I can't seem to nail the nuances. Any help would be awesome.
I’m 67yrs old and am now getting pretty good at fingerpicking but arthritis or something is coming on fast and scares the crap out of me!!! Is there any secret to help? (Great lesson, btw! Thanks!)
Thank you very much awesome video love Tommy Emanuel playing an energy on the guitar he’s the one that has me on this kick an your video has given me real hope to accomplish this goal of Travis picking thank you.👍🏾🎸
This guy's explanations are head and shoulders above the rest!
If you were using fingers, would you touch the next adjacent string?(pluck into a brief resting on next stg?) is it ok to just finger pick 1 string, when using fingers, as you are doing with your pick? I am trying to relearn, as I finger pick playing string individually, meaning not plucking into next string. so hard to explain and SO DIFFICULT to find this answer on line; I may stick to how I am doing it.
You are a good teacher. You get where the student is. Thanks.
The way you do the fmajor chord with the tip your index finger being past the 6th string like that seems easier than the way I've been doing it. Nice haha
Travis picking is the best
very helpful lesson for beginner thank you
This lesson helped me. I'm TP every song I know now. That Martin thermal is fin sweet.
I've always done this by ear. But you have to start with root note??? In beginning you said to start with root note.. also... what about d chord.. I'm struggling with that one. I'm only two years into guitar so I'm a beginner and still learning. But do alot by ear
Great lesson!! Thank you.
Don’t think twice it’s alright Bob Dylan. This song kick my ass.
Not played by Bob on the recording on Freewheelin Bob Dylan
I learned this style by learning "I am the light of this world" by Rev. Gary Davis. If you can play that, you can play anything.
Wow good for you Pbarry. I can play using Travis picking. However I've never Liked the way I sound. This tutorial is great, having better results, fun as well! Your right "it takes investment time". Thanks
Thanks, I love your lesson and how you approached Travis picking.
Just the ticket as a basic introduction, this one, thank you!
thanks ... it's easy and at this stage very basic but may come in hand
This was very clear. It will keep me occupied for a year. Thanks 😊
Better instruction is out there.
The hardest part of Travis picking...is forgetting the haphazard picking with any finger that you are used to with no regards to a pattern. 30 years noodling around campfires...my picking style is anything but this...this seizes up my brain. I wish I had learned this 30 years ago.
I've found just the opposite. Learn a simple song, especially in an open tuning like D, maybe even monotonic bass. Your brain picks this up pretty fast and as it does your thumb becomes subconscious within the narrow confinement of a single song, letting you concentrate on melody. Get good at it and watch yourself, finding and fixing weaknesses. What next? A new song presenting a few new challenges. After several songs, well you've got a small repertoire and have subconsciously internalized so many coordinated motions, learning more new songs, including in standard tuning that can be tougher, becomes much easier. Just my take.
Does anyone have a tab for the bit at the very start of the video? Thanks :)
Did anybody catch the travis picking pattern for the d chord?
Si, ya se lo todo eso, es súper fácil, el problema.a es sacar las canciones, covers
On your picking hand, you have excellent hand position there. It's very important for players to hold the thumb to finger ratio at a "45 degree" angle. (Brooks Robertson explains that in a Truefire lesson. It was taught to him by Buster B. Jones.)
It's basically making sure your thumb is *not* over your pointer finger; it's hard to tell exactly from your camera angle, but it seems you're holding your hand appropriately: your thumb pick is about an inch closer to the fretboard than the pointer finger.
Just trying to help people (like me who started learning Travis Picking by ear in the mid 1980s) not have to unlearn a bad habit many folks make. I see a lot of guitar "teachers" on RUclips * Guitar World teaching Travis and Boom*Chick (think Jerry Reed, Tommy Emmanuel,...) lessons without proper pick hand technique.
The 45 degree angle makes it possible to play really fast without your thumb tripping over your pointer finger when pinching and boom*chicking.
You are a very good teacher!
I'm glad I found your channel.
Beautiful guitar, too!
(I have subbed. I can no longer play due to spinal injury, but I love watching others play. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!)
Are this alle steel strings or also nylon?
I started playing around 12 years ago and this is the first time I've understood Travers picking. Thanks, David.
When you do a 6 string chord, (E) why is it: E, D, A and not E, A , D? Is it a tone thing or something else?
If anyone is getting frustrated with this, its good to know that when you sleep your brain learns and remembers how to perform physical tasks you've encountered during the day. The more you make it a problem that your brain is trying to solve, the more your brain will focus on it during your sleep, and you should notice yourself getting incrementally better each day. This helped me keep going when learning this and helped me take a calmer approach without getting too frustrated and giving up. You usually wont improve much within one given day so practice as much as possible and make sure to get a healthy amount of sleep and you'll have it down much faster, the increments will be minor at times but every now and then you'll be surprised at the noticeable step forward you took :)
Its true
I need to ask because I can't tell. I picked up my guitar a month ago and I just watched this video now and I can do it a bit faster than his slow version before he does the fast one near the end. I started working on finger style from day one, but did he just mean getting the speed could take months or years? I'm very unclear on what he meant
TheDaarkWarrior Pretty sure his point was just alluding to the fact that everyone is different, some people catch on faster, some people have very limited time to practice, some folks struggle or are complete beginners. There’s no set time for how long it takes to learn.
@@brettadkins4698 thanks for the response
I want to believe
He exactly looks like Bruce Banner/ Hulk from MCU!!
this should be a song
How common is it using hybrid style to pull off clean and authentic "Travis picking sound"? I can just never get comfortable with a thumbpick, but I've been a fairly accomplished hybrid picker for 30 years. I find hybrid so incredibly useful and versatile in both acoustic and electric playing.
Anyone know which is the follow on video to this one ?
That'd be; Step 6 "how to grow extra fingers"
@@philipwilliams5808 Ha ...it does feel like that .
After months of practising the thumb on the bass notes have at last broken into adding a string with the index finger . I see a glimmer of light !
I'd like to see clay pigeons by blaze foley
There is actually a fantastic guide for introducing Travis Picking with that song! Look up the channel 'Song Notes'; great intro to the song (though it is taught in the way that Prine played it).
awesome. finally made simple.
Check out Larry the Logger 2 Step (PatSimmons/Doobie Bros), Embryonic Journey (Jorma Kaukonen), The Clap (Steve Howe/Yes)
53 years old and I am learning. Your video has been the most helpful to me. I've seen quite a bunch. Your method is by far the best for me.