Classical Guitar Finger picking exercise #1

Hey guys, here's a technique I think you're going to love! This is basically blazing fast finger picking with four fingers of the right hand, and anything you want in the left hand. The picking pattern order is thumb, ring, middle, index. and repeats. In numbered terms 5,3,2,1 with thumb being 5, index 1, etc. So this is really the simplest pattern you can do with four fingers.

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Click below for the demonstration video. I'm just improvising freely to demonstrate the technique. Sorry about that "squeak" at the end, it's actually kind of funny.




Below is a sample of the tab. This is enough to get you going just continue the pattern on the chords of you choice. The first three fingers usually stay on the top three strings while the thumb plays bass notes on the 5th and 6th strings. I also find it cool and very challenging to use the thumb on the 4th and even 3rd string which is extra difficult since your index finger is already playing that string.

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Just go as slow as you need to with a metronome so you are perfectly on beat and gradually speed up. There's no riff you can't play when you slow down the tempo enough and build up a good technique.