Fingerpicking – beginner guitar lesson #6

About this lesson

With our guitar tutorial on Fingerpicking – beginner, you will learn these guitar skills: Arpeggios.

Welcome to the 6th guitar lesson for beginners. This will be a great lesson and show you a brand new aspect of playing the guitar. You will learn about fingerpicking and arpeggiating chords. I'll teach you how to hold your hand correctly, and you'll see it's not that difficult, you just have to get your fingers used to the movement. The things I will teach you in this lesson are:

• the correct technique of fingerpicking
• chord arpeggios
• the base note strum technique
• I'll also show you a preview to a couple of fingerpicking songs

As with all of the techniques you learn in our lessons, developing your fingerpicking skills is reliant on just one factor, practice. This is especially true for fingerpicking, as you have to get your individual fingers used to the movement and improve their coordination so they only touch the strings you want to pluck at.

Watch this lesson many times, practice your technique, and you'll see that you'll be advancing at a rapid pace.

Once you feel comfortable with fingerpicking, you could:

• move on to the next beginner guitar lesson on barre chords,
• learn some fingerstyle guitar songs, for example
  • Let it Be by The Beatles
  • Hey There Delilah by the Plain White Ts
  • House of The Rising Sun by The Animals
  • Greensleeves (one of my favorites)
• check out all of our fingerstyle guitar lessons on songs

Skills you'll learn