Fingerpicking Lesson 1

[JBoneNZ]

Awesome! Thanks Jay, picked this up in a matter of minutes. Cheers for your tutorial :)

[birddoger100]

Thank you. You made it more comprensible.

[birddoger100]

THANK YOU. You made it more comprensible,

[homersimps1]

This is so freakin awesome. Never thought I'd be able to fingerpick(I play metal mostly), but your vid breaks it down perfectly. Thanks a ton for posting this. You rock, man.

[01TheSleeper]

yeah this is helpful. thanks.

[TheModCon]

Great playing! I have a question for you, if you're going to play a song that has finger picking in it, but you know you need to use a plectrum half way through, what do you do? I got my technique for that from Brian Setzer's technique, just wondering what yours is :D

[Jay67A]

@TheModCon, Thanks, yes I also try to do it in Brian Setzer style by hiding the pic between index and middle finger. Cannot do the switch as fast as Brian though :) I also have tried to learn a bit hybrid picking, where the bass note is played with pick and "treble" notes with middle and ring finger. But I'm not very good at that either.

[gerardeveland]

wow so very helpfull. looking for understanding and a approach i could follow and i found it in your video. so cool the way i could stop and practice what u put in writing, and then continue on. It really pulled it all together for me!!! thank you for your time....

[joezglf2]

Two words, THANK YOU

[alexhollandmusic]

Wow, you would not believe the smile on my face after "getting this". Bless you for sharing your skill.

By the way, love the 6120 DSW. Looks goo-ood.

[sergiohh]

really thank you for leason! i love this guitarstyle

[kaybugggg]

got itt(:

[toderox]

VEry useful man! Thanx a lot!

[Telestrat67]

Very easy to follow love it

[cedricegan]

very helpful

[ingeewung]

thank you that was a great lesson, spot on!

[stupidlittleguitar]

Great great videos, Thanks for posting them all.

For me, learning fingerpicking often feels like doing advanced math. I can only practice something new for 5 minutes before I have to take a break and play something I know. Then I can come back to it. Once I get through about 10 of these short practice sessions, I see progress.

A fair amount of concentration and attention to fine detail coordination is needed. LIke so many things in life, it looks a lot easier than it is !

[1948steven]

My God the first time this have ever been explained so I could understand it.

[samfrombelgium]

great lesson you can see you developed it yourself and now teach it us . best fingerpicking lesson i've seen so far . Keep em going :)

[nidasg]

Great lesson, man!

[MrMickBones]

very nice lessons thank you very much .It's help a lot to figure the pattern of this picking.

[awfulguitarnoises]

Best damned lesson on this style ever for a beginner like me. The others just jump right in, but your style with slowly adding in addition picks is great. I learned in one evening more than I have in a long time with other videos. Great job!

[TomboChe69]

Thanks for sharing. Finally a simple explaination of the right-hand technique! Checking lessons about fingerpicking I'm always giving up because they are mostly too difficult or (even worse) a bit boring. In this video it's just a simple step by step instruction of a basic skill.

Much obliged! Greetz, Tombo Che (Belgium)

[hammill444]

Boy, I'd give anything to be able to do that. Even though you go plenty slow enough, I just cannot make it work in any way. Back to distortion.

[Jay67A]

@hammill444, How long did you try? Don't give up, just take it slowly. For me it took week or more to just get the thumb to play the bass line roughly. Practice only the thumb as long as it takes, days, weeks, months,... When you can play the thumb bass while in sleep, it will be easy to add the treble picks :)

[hammill444]

@Jay67A Well, I've been trying since I posted last-- somewhere in the area of a year ago! The bass notes are ok, I just end up using the wrong fingers to hit certain high strings (like my index hitting the high e constantly,); I know certain fingers are to be used for certain strings, but I can't get them to correspond properly. So it ends up being some bass notes followed by random flailing of the high notes: not uniform, with a constant pattern. Not my thing I guess.

[Jay67A]

@hammill444, Sorry to hear that. Maybe some other type of fingerpicking exercise with really simple thumb bass would help to get accuracy to index and middle finger.

[hammill444]

@Jay67A Oh, that's ok. Thanks for the response-- and the video lesson. It really it the most clear lesson around. Cheers.

[PsychoHun]

I keep coming back to this video, Jay67A you are great, thank you for taking the time making this video and posting it (or I should say posting them) keep making more, maybe something on rockabilly solos?

[letshaveafondueparty]

Nice on man. Just started with this kinda stuff and this is a big help.

[jukkagy]

Hey Jay... let me jump on the bandwagon here to say I appreciate the video as well. When you start to learn Travis style picking you have to start somewhere and IMO this is a great demonstration for beginners (like me) to do just that. This is one of those rolls that has to become so ingrained in your muscle memory that you can do it in your sleep... ok, back to the practice room now... I can only just barely do it while I'm awake. Thanks much!

[chuck1016]

Thanks for posting this. Learning to finger pick is maddening! :D

[dewijones67]

fair play - cracking lesson...!

[lodcomm]

hey man,

kick ass intro lesson... thanks!

[wdbones]

Very nice. Simply to the point. Good instruction.

[L0ngLiveRnR]

Helps a lot!!! Thanks man!! Cheeers from Italy! Keep a-rockin'! ;-D

[sexylefty]

GRACIAS!! THANK FROM SPAIN!!!!

[DeathRottenDecay]

i love it, this simple explanation gave me what hours of watching other stupid lessons couldnt. you should be making millions. screw david beckham they should have given it to you

[Jay67A]

Thanks to everyone for your comments. I'm really happy that you have found this usefull.

[wtfwkd]

Nice vid!!! Helped a ton!

Thanks man!

[elkingchris]

What a fantastic lesson! Thank you so much!!! I have finally solved the mystery of the fingerpick. =D

[panbread89]

hey thanks a lot jay, this helped me a lot.

[tompinai90]

the best lesson i've ever seen so far..i really dig the lesson & it was very2 useful when it comes to playin' rockabilly..hope you'll record more rockabilly fingerpickin lesson..cheers from borneo!!

[bizarremouse]

this was so helpful, ive never seen a video so helpful. thanks so much! please add more videos. :]

[gibby6117]

Hello jay and thanks for the reply and you know a lot more than I do . I was just wanting to play the complete video and my teacher listened to your video and made a tab ( on the hamer on and the left hand ) I sure hope that you keep posting because you really show more than most lessons. I have been working on your video for over a week and I am getting better however still have to get it by not thinking about it and thanks again for the post . I would love to see all the moves .

[Jay67A]

Hi Gibby, cool to hear that you have a tab of the video. If you have it in a format, that you could send it me, I would be interested. Maybe to share it here for the others.

I might add some more videos. But I am not really that good myself either, so to make a more complicated lesson would be hard, as I propably cannot play the same part twice exactly the same way. But let's see. Glad to hear that you liked my videos.

[gibby6117]

Jay sorry for the delay and i do have the tabs however i don't have a scaner and I could email to you telling you the strings and frets #

[jmchoquet]

Hello gibby, that would be great if you could share the tab with whoever tried to play Jay's piece...

[gibby6117]

well why do you leave out the hard part the 3r4d string open while at the same time open on the 6th string??? giland hammer on the 1st fret 3rd string

[Jay67A]

hmm... I'm not sure what you mean. If you mean the hammering part, then I left it out because I wanted to concentrate on the right hand technique. Once you have the right hand working, then you can do pretty much what you want with your left hand. But if you think it would be worth to post another clip focusing the hammer on's etc. then maybe I could do a new one.

[Howardraz]

great rockabilly lesson, picked it up real easy with that lesson.thanks

[straycat109]

great lesson ! shows really well. hope it will finally help me gettin it, ive been

struggling with the thumb for a long time...((

[dpedwards08]

Ya know, for being a basic piece of music and you being new to this style, it sounds incredible!

[prospectnyc]

You are awesome for making and posting this. I don't have it yet, but I've been working on it for two days.

The hardest part is training your picking hand fingers to hit the notes at those odd times.

[GrandJediMaster7860]

That was very helpful dude, thanks for that :)

[popaoomowmow]

thanks for the lesson, do u have any tips on how to get better at playing this style

[lukewalterb]

thank you verry much. merci mijne man.great lesson!!!!!

[mykeuk48]

Awesome lesson, this is my first real go at fingerpicking, I'm almost there, it's so hard I'm sticking with it though

[hammill444]

Great lesson, but I give up: too darn hard. Some people just have that natural gift I guess.

[Jay67A]

I don't know. It took me maybe couple of weeks to be able to play something like this. But I have played guitar 30 years or something, also with fingers, but not in this style.

What worked me, was to take it slowly. Trying to get the thumb working, even though it took a week. Then adding slowly one treble pick at a time. I also practised without a guitar, just tapping with my thumb according the rhytm to a table (during day at work) :)

[shagster009]

Thanks for the lesson! :) Helps a lot when you break it down like that! I've been looking for something like this for ages.....Cheers

[dealer205]

nice vid, you make it look easy! and its not!!

[Jay67A]

Thanks, it aint easy but it aint as difficult as it may feel in the beginning either. Take it slowly. Right hand thumb first. When you feel comfortable with the alternating thumb, try adding one of those treble picks at a time. Add more when you are comfortable with the previous one. Try practising often short periods, like everyday (or twice a day) 10 minutes or so.

[McCapella]

Thanks maan A LOOOOT!! :D

[Jimiimij]

thanks

[magtechcomputers]

Letting you know your video is still being viewed. Outstanding work and great teaching. Wish I could track you down for more. Thank you.

[jamestiin]

ihan jees tässä koko ajna näppäilen hyvä treeni opiskella sormi pikkausta

[kejonic]

tää pitää kyl opetella :)

[joe19730628]

I am learning fingerpicking myself, your video is a hard-to-find and useful lesson on youtube, thanks a lot.

Joe

[capcremo]

Great lesson dude. Cant wait for more.