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Play Song: Oceanfront Property

 
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Now let's try this out with a simple backing track and our great phantom singer. As always I highly encourage you to just watch and listen at least once before you start playing along yourself.

I hope you've had a lot of fun taking these first steps into the exciting and almost limitless world of finger picking. You can easily find some overwhelming examples of people playing this style of guitar in extremely complicated and virtuosic ways. But I'm also fairly confident that if you put on one of your favorite records you're very likely to hear some basic version of a simple finger picking pattern, like the ones we've explored in this tutorial. It's such a great thing about the guitar that the most basic versions of these techniques are very often as useful as the more advanced ones.

Instructor Anders Mouridsen
Tutorial:
Intro To Fingerpicking
Styles:
Any Style
Difficulty:
print notation download lesson open guitar tuner
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Play Song: Oceanfront Property By Anders Mouridsen

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5 months ago
I feel this is to advanced for beginners. This course should probably be moved further along in the study. Still learning to move between chords effectively and adding fingers and thumb to different strings I felt really lost.
Mike Olekshy 5 months ago

Hi there - thanks so much for the feedback!! If you feel like this is too challenging for you right now, then I would go back a chapter or so and work through everything again - making sure you can change chords smoothly and stay in time. Perhaps you need to work on the previous chapter for a little while longer to get the chord changes happening more smoothly. This is normal - don't get frustrated!! It takes time to program your fingers and muscles to do these things they've never done before. Keep at it - it will come!!

1 year ago
Hi, very tifficult for me to keep the timing, why don't we get a cursor moving on the tab to help to follow the progression? See this example, this is really what is needed! https://tomplay.com/fr/guitar-sheet-music/armstrong/what-a-wonderful-world-easy-intermediate-level-solo-guitar-guitar-score
Mike Olekshy 1 year ago

Hello - thanks so much for your suggestion - I will forward to admin. If it is difficult to keep the timing, I suggest you slow down the video using the speed buttons on the left side of the video frame and play along slower. Hope this helps!

2 years ago
I'm having a hard time switching between Am and G fast enough. Should I practice switching between those two chords with a metronome and slowly increase the tempo until I'm fast enough, or should I play it the best I can and move on to the next tutorial?
Josh Workman 2 years ago

This is very common problem at first. I suggest keeping a practice journal and having a section where you add things that are giving you trouble that you can gradually improve, while moving through the other lessons. It's all interconnected, so you will find that you often get better at something that formerly gave you trouble without even working on it for a while because you are improving in other areas of guitar playing.