Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song

Overview

“In this lesson, we cover the basics of fingerpicking, which is more involved than strumming with a pick. You'll learn proper hand positioning, finger assignments, and techniques to start incorporating fingerpicking into your practice routine ”

In this video lesson Michelle Joyce addresses the topic: Introduction to Fingerpicking , which is part of the Domestika online course: Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song. Join Michelle Joyce and learn to play guitar. Master the basics with structured lessons on chords, rhythms, and practice routines..

Partial transcription of the video

“In today's lesson we are going to cover the basics of finger picking. So finger picking is quite a bit more involved than using a guitar pick to strum or just really strumming in general because we're going to be using multiple fingers so there's going to be a lot going on with our picking hand. We're just going to start with the basics and I'm going to walk you through. So the first thing you want to do is just make sure again that your arm is relaxed on the top of the body of your guitar. You don't have any tension and what we want to do is we want to keep our picking hand anchored here n...”

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Course summary for: Start Playing Guitar: From basics to your first song

• Level: Beginner
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• 5 units
• 15 lessons (2h 21m)
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