Folk & Country Styles on Piano: How to "Fingerpick" Any Chord!

[@PianowithNate]

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[@gardenofcorgi6636]

This was so incredibly helpful for me as I am transitioning from traditional lessons to trying to learn improvisation and rhythms to play with others. Thank you so much!

[@PianowithNate]

Thank YOU so much!

[@gilledwards9302]

Thank you for one of your best videos to date. A video about 'finger picking' in 3/4 and/or 6/8 time would be enormously complementary (hint)!

[@PianowithNate]

I'll mull it over!

[@igorknk]

What an amazing tutorial! Sorry for the little I donated, but to donate each dollar I needed to use 6 brazilian reais!

[@PianowithNate]

Thank you so much!

[@cescoclasse64]

Excellent lesson, representing the accompaniment in a schematic and immediately usable way.

[@PianowithNate]

Glad to hear it!

[@back-seat-driver1355]

What a clever strategy - nice ideas and so fine presented - thanks again, Nate!

[@PianowithNate]

My pleasure!

[@justbelieve777]

Really a neat style. Going to experiment to see how to fingerpick a slash chord

[@PianowithNate]

Cheers!

[@johnbrow284]

Thanx! Very useful! I used to play such songs like here at 05:22 which is not bad , but they sounded kinda "amateurish" :)

[@chrisneedham6654]

Brilliant, Nate. Great lesson for us guitar players learning the piano!

[@PianowithNate]

Awesome. Glad you enjoyed!

[@timhowell4544]

As a guitar player, I loved this video

[@PianowithNate]

So glad to hear that!

[@dimwitsadvocate6264]

I'm with you on that, Tim!

[@morrisseyDAD]

Thank Nate. I feel inspired to go back to Jolene with this in mind. I love the guitar intro on that

[@PianowithNate]

Totally! Cheers

[@davidtee5417]

Nate. I may be that Dave from UK If so, thank you. This is so useful and exactly what I needed and wanted. Your teaching style is just brilliant. I was over your side of the country in Vancouver and Alaska last month. I got hold of an old keyboard on Facebook marketplace and took it and your tutorials on my cruise. Bliss practising on a balcony watching the Alaska scenery go by. Thank you

[@PianowithNate]

Indeed I think you were! And thank YOU. Wow playing keyboard on a cruise balcony sounds so dreamy!

[@DavetheIV]

Wow Nate, this 'new style lesson' really hit the spot, just look at the thankful and complimentary comments that your followers have added. It's a complex skill to learn and develop, but on country and other similar guitar led finger picked material really allows the piano and its player to shine. ow about a lesson on the classic James Taylor 'Fire and Rain' using this? Best regards, Dave W.

[@PianowithNate]

Thanks Dave! I did do a lesson on Fire and Rain, though admittedly it was more of a typical piano style arrangement that did not capture the fingerpicking. Perhaps you can put these two videos together and come up with your own version!

[@sandyswambo]

Amazing, thank you :)

[@fernsmark18]

Thanks Nate

[@juskidding6082]

Thank you brother ! Very good !!

[@PianowithNate]

Thanks!

[@qldsafari]

Brilliant, thank you!

[@grayumkay]

This was really interesting thanks

[@PianowithNate]

Cheers!

[@bertram3951]

Thank you so much ! Your's are the best tutorials !!!!

[@PianowithNate]

Thanks so much!

[@timmylawlor6821]

thanks for the reply Nate

[@billhasty5197]

Wonderful lesson Nate. I have the perfect song for you to do a tutorial on using this style of playing. Give a listen to "The City Of New Orleans" a Song by Arlo Guthrie.

[@jhn1987]

Very useful lesson. Since you did this lesson on fingerpicking the piano and you love the Beatles, why not do a tutorial on Dear Prudence.

[@PianowithNate]

Oooo good idea

[@CB-858]

At some point you should do build me up buttercup by the foundations. I love your work dude ive already learned imagine,here there and everywhere and for no one from your tutorials.

[@PianowithNate]

Cheers!

[@JamsODonnell100]

Pure gold 👍. A truly lovely sound and very achievable. Makes me wonder why I’ve never worked this out for myself ! 🤔. As you seem to react to suggestions- personally, I would like next, a song (probably a simple one) that incorporates these kind of patterns with the melody on the piano, for us non singers??

[@PianowithNate]

Glad you enjoyed it! I honestly never thought to work it out myself until I got an email about it. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll mull it over!

[@fvijayarangam]

Great stuff there. I was looking for something like this.

[@PianowithNate]

Glad I could help!

[@dimwitsadvocate6264]

Nate makes me tempted to take up the piano . . .

[@PianowithNate]

Do ittttt

[@theodorekorbos2804]

hi Mr. Nate I hope you're having a great weekend . I was wondering if there's any material on this style of playing that I could buy and read it through and study I guess I'm kind of old-fashioned in that way I love to read music funny as it may sound.

[@PianowithNate]

Hi - I honestly am not sure! If you do some googling I bet you'll find something :)

[@Gotmilk804]

Thanks for all the help. Do you think you could do a tutorial for "King of the Road" by Roger Miller?

[@AlNye]

Hey Nate. Just watched this video and it made me think how some of your ideas would be good to use on some Jim Croce songs, like Time in a bottle, Operator, I'll have to say I love you in a song, or Lover's Cross. Thanks so much!

[@PianowithNate]

Great idea - cheers!

[@markweaver8721]

Wow very cool.

[@PianowithNate]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ElizabethWood-j8i]

@nate thanks for another great video lesson! Do you teach private lessons via zoom?

[@PianowithNate]

My pleasure! Unfortunately I don't offer private lessons anymore, as I work full time on my youtube videos and courses

[@timmylawlor6821]

that was great may i ask what kinda piano do you use

[@PianowithNate]

Heres the keyboard I use: amzn.to/3dstlm2 Though for the videos you are hearing a software instrument/virtual piano called "Alicia's Keys"in my recording software being triggered by that keyboard via MIDI

[@brianwallington9744]

Hi Nate if I buy a 61 key piano (NP15) can I still play all your songs ? and could you say anything about the NP15 ? Thanks

[@PianowithNate]

Hi Brian - you can certainly learn on a 61 key keyboard but you will have to adjust some arrangements by playing in different octaves or avoiding low octaves in the left hand. It's not ideal but you can still learn the basics if your space or budget requires it. The other issue is that this keyboard (and many 61 key keyboards) do not have weighted keys, so the action will feel light and cheap and ultimately that will hold you back from the nuances of being able to express yourself on the piano. I do have some digital piano recommendations in the description for this video. Good luck!

[@brianwallington9744]

@@PianowithNate hi Nate thanks a lot for taking the time to answer my question I really appreciate that.I will ponder about the pros and cons of this.. once again many thanks,you stay safe and take care now

[@andrerodriguesrodrigues8984]

Great class !. In next lessons, you should teach a famous song that uses this rhythm patterns...

[@PianowithNate]

Good idea!

[@philmckenna5709]

How about "John Barleycorn" by Traffic/Steve Winwood.