Remember, the key word when practicing is ‘discipline’. Learn the basic concepts of playing fingerstyle guitar, including tips on right and left hand technique. They are designed to be used by electric guitarists who use a pick, but can be adapted for acoustic guitars and fingerstyle players. If you want more fingerpicking advice, specifically with your fingerpicking hand and learning the essential and exciting fingerpicking patterns, then check out my book, Fingerstyle 101 (which is on offer at the moment). These finger exercises will help improve the speed and clarity of your guitar playing. Remember, as described in this fingerpicking tips lesson, muscle memory plays a big part with fingerstyle playing. You don’t need to learn lots of crazy exercises to give your fingers a good work out and improve your fingerpicking tone, agility and all-round sound.That is one of the reasons these fingerstyle exercises and techniques are simple but remember, simple works. It’s not just a case of playing the exercises but it is a case of playing them really well.Remember, this lesson is all about the focus on getting great tone – which means aiming for a non-scratchy sound which is bright, clear and has good volume. This video, featuring two simple fingerpicking exercises will help you with this.ĭownload the tab for the exercises (they are really simple but it’s what you do with them that counts! while fingers can achieve alternation only with hard practice. Yet, they wonder why they lack speed, dexterity and agility with their picking hand. Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar or bass guitar by plucking the. When playing the following fingerstyle guitar exercises, begin with your. guitar-fingerstyle-1 Start with thumb exercises.
A lot of guitarists can play a few fingerpicking songs and knock out some fingerstyle patterns but a lot don’t ever do any exercises for their fingerpicking hand. Having solid fingerstyle guitar technique is crucial to mastering this type of. This thumb exercise plays the 6th, 5th, and 4th string twice each one.