Master Fingerpicking Fundamentals: Essential Arpeggio Techniques for Guitar Beginners

1. Promo video: Hi guys, My name is adeno and I'm a qualified teacher. In this beginner's course, they are going to learn the four basic waste of court finger picking exercises. And we'll do that one using or metronome and we will try to speed up or technique. After this, we are going to have a look at some songs, we choosing this kind of patterns or that they have a mixed finger picking technique. You can do this course on any type of guitar. If you have an acoustic or an electric or a classical guitar, it will work out well. Sign up for my course today and improve your guitar playing with me. 2. Extra Info: At first, thank you so much for signing up for my course. I just wanted to say that the course has some assignments. If you do them, I will have a look at them personally and either give you my feedback. And it would make me really happy if you could write a review for the course so other students can read how you liked it and how you progress with it. 3. Introduction: Hi, my name is Athena and I will be your instructor. In this course, we are going to learn the four basic finger picking exercises, or some people call it or Pancho. And it is also more like an arpeggiated cord because the real art pendulum is when you play on a scare, the first, the third, and the fifth node, or the first, third, fifth, and seventh note. But these are mainly just finger picking exercises to play on courts. Now, you can do this course on a classical guitar or acoustic guitar, or electric guitar as well in any type basically, but you need to play everything as a finger picking style. We will do all of these exercises on a way that we play oh, pan courts. So the first chord, we add B, E major. And after B we have an F open chord, which means that we have not holding a full body. We just toward the top of the F chord. And after we then go to F-sharp open, and then G major open, and so on. And you can go all the way up and all the way down on your guitar when you are practicing these finger picking exercises or so, what we're going to do with the dew of working baseline, which means that we will play with or thumb for the E string. And then they are moving down to the a string. And then we go to the D string and back with a string. And then we will add the pattern to the bottom of the string. That is wanting common with these exercises that you will always place your ring finger to the E string, your middle finger to the B string, and your index finger to the G string, or the pattern are going to change. It depends on which one you are doing. The first two patterns will be four notes per beat exercises. And it just means that when you practice it and you put on the metronome, you play four notes and it will be timed. And these three fingers. And the second two exercises via B6 notes per beat exercises, which means that you play the thumb once and new play six nodes with these three fingers. Now let's have a look at the first butter. 4. 1st Pattern: In the first button with this starts with an E major chord. And we use the thumb as the first finger. And then VB used ring, middle index to go up. Venue, play with the thumb. You can just like play away from the string, but try not to make too big movements. Because then it will slow you down later on is the same thing with these fingers. If you play with little movements, you will have more chances to reach higher speed later on. The best way to practice these exercises is having a metronome. And then you have a metronome, you can just place it to a particular speed that you're comfortable with. And then you just need to play four notes per beat. And then you can also start one notepad bit if it is more comfortable, and then you feel comfortable with one speed, you can speed up and you can go to the next level. So I recorded this exercise is actually in two different speed at 50 BPM to show you how it sounds when it's played a little bit slower, and I played it at 100 bpm as well. To show you how it sounds when it is played faster. Now, let's have a look how you can start this exercise just to put on the metronome maybe at 100 bpm and playing one note per bit. Just to practice to play with the metronome and play even when you play this exercise. Once you do one round in one chord, you go to the next chord. And so on. You can go as far as you want to on the neck. And then you can just try to push yourself and go to four notes per beat. Actually be this particular pattern. I can go really fast and it can sound really nice. I think I can do 130 BPM for notes per beat. 6. 2nd Pattern: In the second pattern, the, the dupe very similar exercises, we will have the same chord progression. So we start on E major and we go to Open, and then we go all the way up to a major open. And we will have the working baseline as well. What is changing that fever play, thumb, index, middle ring. You can start practicing the exercise again in the same way. So you put it on your metronome at 100 bpm, you play one note per bit and slowly transitioning to four notes per beat and try to push your speed higher. 8. 3rd Pattern: Now we arrive to the sixth notes per beat patterns. And in this case, we will play thumb, index, middle, ring, middle index. Now, let's do the same exercise. Vt 100 bpm, one node per beat. 10. 4th Pattern: Our final pattern via OB, six notes per beat exercise. But this time we are going to play dumb ring, middle index, middle ring. Now, this can be a very unnatural exercise and it is not used so much in song. So for me this is pretty hard, but it's worth to practice this with all the other patterns as well. So let's see how does it sound at 100 bpm. Now that we learn the four basic ways of playing these finger picking exercises, we are going to have a look at some songs as an example and for you to practice them. 12. Romance Tutorial: Now that is a very famous and very beautiful song, which is written on the first pattern and it is called Spanish romance. I included the tab in this course so you can just have a look at them. It is playing together the tongue and drink finger. And you just do the first type of patterns. So ring, middle, index. You can just follow the tap to learn the song. And you can change the shapes with the left hand, but the right hand will remain the same. So it is a great way to exercise this song. Although some parts of the song via be a little bit more tricky because we will have some body courts inside the song. As you can see, I'm holding kid a body on the seventh fret. And then you need to reach with the little finger to the 11th fret while you are still playing the chord. But it's worth to try this song because it's very, very beautiful. 16. Every Second Week on Friday Tutorial: The next composition is called every second week on Friday. And in this song, you have a mixed technique or a mixed pattern. Or though, when you play the bottom three strings, you have all these placing the same fingers to the same string. Ring finger on E string, middle finger is on B, and index finger is on G string. And whenever you play the, the base three strings, then you will need to use a moving thumb. This is very beautiful song. Or though for this song, you need to be able to play some batteries because you have a G major with a battery. And also you have a B minor as a body to be able to play the song. 18. Spanish Mixed Technique Tutorial: Our final song will be a Spanish style arpeggio exercise. And in this song, we have the Spanish chord progressions. So a minor to G, to F, to E. And the pattern will be that you have a moving baseline or changing baseline that you play with the thumb. And you will always place your other three fingers to the bottom three string. And you will play the same strings with the same thing gaps. And the pattern is. So this is the first art pendulum. And then we go to the third type of art by Joe because it will be dumb down. And via have two more up from the bottom string. So first type and an extra two nodes, and then we change chords. 20. Outro: Thank you so much for finishing this course. I hope you improve your guitar playing with me and you learn something new. And if you would like to go further with your guitar studies, please check out my other courses because I have a lot of different varieties. Some of them are on courts, some of them are on streaming techniques, some of them are on scarce. If you go to my profile, you can see all of these courses. And also, I would be really happy if you could review this course so other people can read about your experiences. Thank you again, and I hope to see you soon with another course.