Welcome to Guitar Basics: Fingerpicking for Beginners! In this guitar class I take you on a step by step journey of learning how to play fingerstyle on your guitar. The techniques in this class can be applied to acoustic and electric guitar.

In this course, you'll learn:

- How to identify and label which fingers to use when fingerpicking

- Some differences between acoustic and electric guitars as it applies to fingerpicking

- How to incorporate a metronome into your guitar practice

- Several fingerpicking exercises, including movable bass note patterns, Travis picking, pinching, and Travis picking with a pinch

- Fingerpicking tips and tricks

Learning how to play fingerstyle guitar will open up a whole new world of possibilities for your guitar playing. Nearly every genre of music utilizes guitar fingerpicking, including Pop, Rock, Folk, Blues, Country, Jazz, Latin, Brazilian, and Afro-pop. So learning fingerstyle techniques will expand the possibilities of songs that you can learn how to play. And if you write your own music, learning how to fingerpick on the guitar will empower you with new choices for your creative expression. Plus, fingerpicking is fun!

I have been playing guitar for over 20 years, and have been teaching private guitar lessons since 2012. I have toured in bands since I was a teenager, and I am an award-winning songwriter and composer for films.

This class was designed with beginner guitar players in mind. The exercises in this class use a handful of basic guitar chords. If you’re completely new to the guitar you may want to check out one of my other guitar courses, “Acoustic Guitar Basics” or “Electric Guitar Basics”. Those two classes cover the essentials of playing guitar, including the chords that are used in this class.

In order to get the most out of this class you’ll need an acoustic or electric guitar, and a tuner to tune your guitar. This course includes a downloadable PDF with all of the exercises from the lessons, as well as a play along video for each exercise where you can practice fingerpicking along with me.

I would love to hear from you and am happy to answer any questions, so please feel free to reach out to me via email at [email protected]

I invite you to continue your music learning journey beyond this course. I have other classes available here on Ultimate Guitar and I encourage you to check them out.

I hope that you have fun learning how to fingerpick your guitar.

Jason