Guitar Basics: Fingerpicking for Beginners
What you'll learn
- How to Identify and Label Which Fingers to Use When Fingerpicking
- Differences Between Acoustic and Electric Guitars as It Applies to Fingerpicking
- How to Incorporate a Metronome Into Your Guitar Practice
- Fingerpicking With Movable Bass Note Patterns, Travis Picking, Pinching, and Travis Picking With a Pinch
- Many Fingerpicking Tips and Tricks
Requirements
- It would be helpful if you’re already familiar with how to play the C major, G major, E minor, and A minor open chords.
- You'll learn everything you need to know in order to fingerpick your guitar like a pro!
- Access to an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar and a tuner is required. *You can use a free tuning app for your phone or tablet.
Description
Welcome to Guitar Basics: Fingerpicking for Beginners! In this guitar class I take you on a step by step journey of learning how to play fingerstyle on your guitar. The techniques in this class can be applied to acoustic and electric guitar.
In this course, you'll learn:
• How to identify and label which fingers to use when fingerpicking
• Some differences between acoustic and electric guitars as it applies to fingerpicking
• How to incorporate a metronome into your guitar practice
• Several fingerpicking exercises, including movable bass note patterns, Travis picking, pinching, and Travis picking with a pinch
• Fingerpicking tips and tricks
Learning how to play fingerstyle guitar will open up a whole new world of possibilities for your guitar playing. Nearly every genre of music utilizes guitar fingerpicking, including Pop, Rock, Folk, Blues, Country, Jazz, Latin, Brazilian, and Afro-pop. So learning fingerstyle techniques will expand the possibilities of songs that you can learn how to play. And if you write your own music, learning how to fingerpick on the guitar will empower you with new choices for your creative expression. Plus, fingerpicking is fun!
I have been playing guitar for over 20 years, and have been teaching private guitar lessons since 2012. I have toured in bands since I was a teenager, and I am an award-winning songwriter and composer for films.
This class was designed with beginner guitar players in mind. The exercises in this class use a handful of basic guitar chords. If you’re completely new to the guitar you may want to check out one of my other guitar courses, "Acoustic Guitar Basics" or "Electric Guitar Basics". Those two classes cover the essentials of playing guitar, including the chords that are used in this class.
In order to get the most out of this class you’ll need an acoustic or electric guitar, and a tuner to tune your guitar. This course includes a downloadable PDF with all of the exercises from the lessons, as well as a play along video for each exercise where you can practice fingerpicking along with me.
I would love to hear from you and am happy to answer any questions, so please feel free to reach out to me by sending me a message here on Udemy.
I hope that this class inspires you to learn more about how to play guitar and create music. I have other classes available here on Udemy and suggest "Guitar Basics: Learn Barre Chords" and "Guitar Basics: Strumming for Beginners" to continue your learning.
I hope that you have fun learning how to fingerpick your guitar.
Jason
Who this course is for:
- This class was created with beginners in mind, but it assumes you’re already familiar with how to play the C major, G major, E minor, and A minor open chords.
Instructor
- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 412 Reviews
- 13,507 Students
- 9 Courses
Hi! I’m Jason - a full time musician, composer and instructor. I've been playing and writing music for over 25 years, and teaching music for over 10 years. You can check out my guitar tips and tricks on my Guitar Teaching YouTube Channel. Alongside creating music courses, I'm a composer for media projects--films, trailers and e-Learning courses.
I really enjoy creating these classes for Udemy and always aim to make courses that are fun with a focus on foundational techniques and creativity.
I have a variety of classes available here, covering the basics of guitar, ukulele, and songwriting. I encourage you to take a look through the classes below.
I am passionate about providing as much support as I can throughout your music learning journey. I'd also love to hear about the kind of classes you would like me to create. So please feel free to get in touch any time by messaging me here on Udemy.
Thank you
“I'd been playing an acoustic guitar for years now. But this class helped me refresh my memory and see points where I'm still messing up. Jason is a gentle guide and is clearly aware of beginners' pain points when they first pick up the guitar. Thank you for sharing these lessons.” - Winta A, Student
“So good. His soothing voice establishes a real grounded trust. The kind of voice you want to hear in the trenches doing the hard work of making music.” - Philly B, Student
“Excellent class. He made concepts that have been difficult to understand previously so clear and concise. Really got a lot out of this class. This is foundational to becoming a good composer. Can't wait to try doing the assignments.” - Mona Lisa P, Student
“Things I have been confused about for years finally made sense to me through Jason's instructions. I can't thank you enough, Jason.” - Ronja B, Student
“Great work, with engaging visuals and great audio and video quality. Jason does a great job in keeping the audience engaged!” - Marco S, Student