Fingerstyle is one of the most creative techniques available on the guitar. We can control so many musical aspects such as tone, volume, dynamics, plucking strings, rhythm, melody, and harmony.

In this guitar lesson, I am going to show you how to play beautiful fingerstyle chords in D major. The goal is to write a simple and sweet chord progression easy to play.

The chords are played with a musical approach called “Pedal tone.” In this approach, we hold a section of a chord while changing the bass note. We will hold down three notes (the A, D, and E) on the top three strings while changing the bass notes. This approach allows you to add a lot of “Sugar” to the chords and make a banal chord progression sound interesting and sweet.

Enjoy this lesson.