Classical Guitar Fingerstyle

Today I want to share this simple lesson on the acoustic guitar using a classical guitar fingerstyle pattern for beginners.

I know that many of you think that classical and acoustic guitar are different instruments, and it is partially true.

They have different strings and shapes, and they don’t share the same repertoire, but the fingerstyle pattern I am about to show you today will change your thoughts about acoustic and classical guitar.

The Classical guitar pattern – Video lesson

As always, let’s start with the video lesson so you can have an idea of what we are going to learn. In this video lesson, I really want to focus a lot on the right-hand classical guitar fingerstyle pattern we will learn today.

We will have a right hand close up, and I will show you step by step how to improve your fingerstyle technique using this awesome pattern.

If you are a beginner and you want to know more about fingerstyle guitar, make sure you check out this article.

The Fingerstyle Pattern Explained

Let me start by saying that this is a classical guitar fingerstyle pattern that I learned from a classical guitar book called Sagreras – First guitar lesson for beginners, which is one of the most famous books for classical guitar beginner guitar players.

The fingerstyle pattern is straightforward and repetitive below the guitar tab, where I break it down for you.

The yellow section represents one pattern. Each bar contains two fingerstyle patterns.

Each pattern goes as follow: P – i – m – i – a – i – m – i – 

You can start familiarizing yourself with the pattern by playing with open strings before playing the chord progression.

The Chord Progression

Let’s spend a few words on the chord progression you are about to learn with this classical guitar fingerstyle exercise.

Before we get started, let me say that this chord progression combines basic and intermediate chords.

The majority of the chords will be pretty simple to learn. The progression goes as follows:

A – E – D – A – E – F#m7add11 – E – D – A – E – A

Even though the chord progression seems to be quite long, I can guarantee you that it isn’t difficult at all. In fact, we are always repeating the same chords, and you shouldn’t struggle a lot.

The F#m7add11 is more difficult to pronounce than to play it. It is again a pretty simple chord to play with two fretted notes and two open strings.

Check out the guitar tab below.

Classical guitar fingerstyle Tab