Fingerpicking Lesson 1

Trying to teach how to finger pick, though I am only learning myself :)
PS. The H chord means B chord for non Europeans :)

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• brian
• setzer

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.