Beginner Acoustic Guitar Lesson: Right Hand Setup for Fingerstyle Guitar

For the complete lesson, check out www.jimbowley.com/2012/10/4-easy-steps-to-fingerstyle-success/. For all the FREE lessons and tips, visit www.jimbowley.com Follow these four key points for an effective right hand setup for fingerstyle guitar. Works great for pop, rock, folk and country!

[@ollvi]

Finally someone really explain and show how to setup right hand. This helped a lot thanks!

[@JimBowleyGuitar]

Thanks! Glad you like the lessons and got something useful out of this one. I use the sliding thumb concept with everyone - works like a charm.

[@RibbleValley14]

Thanks a lot Jim. I'm a real newbie guitarist and recently started out trying to learn fingerstyle. Been struggling even after watching many tutorials. Yours has taught me the best so far - and at last, I think I might be getting the hang of it.

[@JimBowleyGuitar]

Glad to hear you're making progress, David! I'm working on a fingerstyle course so stay tuned!

[@suethatswho]

This is great! Thank you for making this video.

[@JaleelJohanson62]

Excellent video! Very helpful!!

[@Rockgirl122587]

That was REALLY helpful, thank you for posting that! Love the thumb slide method because that's where I think my problem was, and it was causing tension in right hand...feels much more relaxed now! I've given up trying to learn fingerstyle few times because couldn't get hand positioned right, therefore making the playing not sound right. But this has given me new confidence, so thank you once again! =)

[@AndyValentine2]

You have some really great lessons on here, the thumb slide tip is something I was doing naturally without noticing, though only slightly. Now that you've brought it to my attention I can focus on perfecting the technique. Thanks.

[@Jarls1]

Thanks so much for this great video. You have a really easy to listen-to style. I only wish that you would have covered hand placement ~ but maybe I'll find that on another one of your videos. Again, thank you!

[@JimBowleyGuitar]

Excellent!

[@lukaso4644]

where were you man when I needed to install the right habits T_T, but thanks youtube algorythm, finally I can fix my bad habbits, hope this won't link bad habbits lead to you

[@laertes0420]

Thank you!

[@maungoo5522]

Good explanation.

[@jeffrey3498]

Nick Drake used his pinky 😁.

[@seniorpz1969]

im left handed..why do people leave out the lefties??