Creating fingerpicking tunes

[Duffdogga]

How long have you been playing for Will?

[HenfieldWill]

@Duffdogga Since 1964 - when I was 20. :-)

[wildwestpoint]

would be better if u show the right and left hand simultaneously or put the Slow Motion animation

[wildwestpoint]

would be better if u put the Slow Motion animation

[Testacabeza]

Finally I can play this up to the second way you show here, syncopation will take me some more time, a long time I think.

Thanks!

[jefgees]

Perfect Will!! Thanks a lot for helping me with your "youtube_instructions". I goy a question. In another video (Rough Guide to Fingerpicking ) you're mentioning the "clawhammer". In this instructional video you don't. Is there a reason?

Is it also possible to receive the beginning notes of Freight train? I've got some papermusic, but do not know if it's the right one. I can even send it to you. I picked up the guitar again, thanks to you!!!!

Thanks a lot .

[HenfieldWill]

@jefgees The" clawhammer" is really a fingerpicking pattern that can be applied to any sets of chords. But the art of picking a specific tune is to pick it in such a way that the melody line stands out over the other strings - which makes it more than just a pattern. The clawhammer is very useful - but it has to be modified to allow a melody line to "sing". :-)

[jefgees]

@HenfieldWill You're right. it's the singing that causes me problems. I'm able to do the mechanical version. But the more relaxed version is a problem. do not know how to make it sing. If you have the golden tip it would be fantastic. In any way thanks for your reaction and I know now, that I still have a long way to go :-)

thanks

[sundownsigns]

Outstanding! Your explanation of fingerpicking surpasses anything i have seen, laying everything out in a simple step by step logical manner. The quality of your audio and video tops anything i have seen on uTube. After 48 years of flat picking i'm trying to learn fingerpicking and i need all the help i can get. Thanks!

[noazarkle]

Thanks,Will.There are now several good teaching sites on the tube,but for my money yours is the best for folk-type music.

[noble1981]

you are a wonderful in the art of explanation ..:-)

[blueandbeyond]

If only all this stuff had been available 30 years ago! Excellent lesson.

[DerSekundenfaenger]

A great lesson, patient and perfect explained. If i only stumbled upon this earlier. Glad someone takes the time and teaches techniques so detailed :-)

[Pwecko]

Thanks very much. This is great. I wish I'd had something like this to learn from when I started out.

[rogcosta]

Excellent Lesson

Thanks a lot

From Portugal

[Lorencem]

What a great lesson! Thanks for taking the time, must of taken a while to put the yellow note dots down. Appreciate your effort,thanks.

[TonoMillan]

Hi Teacher... great lesson my friend. Excelent

Thank from Barcelona

Toni

[philipglaser]

Great video, Will - just the kind of thing that I need. Great that you take the time and trouble to make these informative videos.

Philip

[Gwyhir]

Excellent quality in your production and camera work !

[Testacabeza]

Excellent, thanks! I think I will practice the basic pattern, I understan now how it is generated.

As usual I "discoveerd" a new song :) I watching all I can from Libba Cottens now.

One question: in this example you knew the melody and the chords, what if you only know the melody notes, is it difficult to get the chords?

Cheers.

[HenfieldWill]

No time in the 10 minutes allowed to cover this, I'm afraid. It's possible to get loads of chords from the web (Google, etc.), but they aren't always reliable. I quite often buy sheet music over the web, print it off and transpose, if need be, into the key I want. I'm doing this more and more with jazz stuff if I don't already know it. So - try the web first and, if chords don't sound right, investigate books and sheet music. :-)

[Jakov77]

Great video!

This helps out a lot!