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.