Five Awesome Fingerstyle Patterns for Beginners

Hey guys I hope you are having a fantastic day! I had a ton of fun recording these five fingerstyle patterns so I hope you are going to like the video.

As I mentioned before, when I don’t really feel like recording a guitar lesson I usually spend time playing around with different ideas. It could be a chord progression, melody or, like today, fingerstyle patterns.

Noodling around with a musical idea is something any guitar players should do sometimes to time. It’s refreshing and fun to just “play” without really thinking about what we are playing.

Now, plucking patterns are super important for finigerstyle players. We need them just like we need to drink water every day. Why? Because if you think about it, every time you play something, you are using a fingerstyle pattern.

In this video lesson I am going to play a bunch of awesome fingerstyle patterns for beginners that you might wanna learn.

At the beginning of each example I will play the patter with muted strings before I play the exercise. This is an awesome approach that will help you learning the pattern better.

Each example is different and uses a different rhythmic and musical idea.

There is no particular order so feel free to start with the pattern you like the most.

Enjoy the lessons guys.

The Video

The Spanish Thumb Pattern

This fingerstyle pattern is perfect if you play single notes or arpeggios just with the thumb.

In this example I am playing a Spanish idea based on chords and melody.

We are in A minor key and the chord progression is Am – G – F – E7. 

Notice how the plucking pattern repeat itself several times with the chord followed by the melody. Make sure you learn both parts as the second time I am adding few extra notes to space up the melody.

Rhythmic Percussion Pattern

The second example is in the key of E major and it is one of my favorite fingerstyle pattern. I use it a lot!

The chord progressions goes as follows: E – F#madd11 – C#min – Add9.

One of the thing that really make this pattern awesome is the percussive note on the 2nd and 4th count of each bar. The percussion is performed with the thumb.

The Middle-Index Plucking Pattern

Here we will play a continuous pattern using the middle and index finger. The middle finger will always pluck the E string while the index finger will pluck the B string.

I am using very simple chords based on two notes only. I honestly love this way of playing the chords with simple ideas.

Your fingers get tired easily when practicing this exercise.

Classical Guitar Pattern

This is one of the first fingerstyle patterns I played when I first started playing guitar.  A lot of classical pieces are written using this pattern.

The chord progression is very simple and we are only playing A minor and E dominant 7th chords in different inversions.

It’s a fun pattern to learn!

Triplets in E minor

The last pattern is played using triplets.

This particular fingerstyle pattern reminds me of Spanish Romance, one of the most famous classical piece of all times.

It can be challenging to play the triplet evenly so use a metronome and don’t give up.

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