Some Fingerstyle Guitar Stuff You Should Probably Know

[@danny1959]

"Hats off to the pinky players." Words to live by.

[@jimcoleman2798]

Watched you play a lot and always love the way you use different chord voicings in your music. This is one of the first times I understood how you were finding some of them. Tuned in to learn the percussive finger style and came away with some new chord shapes too. Great lesson.

[@JPVanderbuilt]

Great lessons like this is why I'm subscribed to Sean's channel. Yeah, the girls & fun stuff are great too, but these lessons are the real gold.

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks so much!

[@RoofElmao]

i wish i knew more unusual beautiful chord progressions

[@seandaniel23]

I gotchu!

[@Terribleguitarist89]

Another powerful tricks is learning your chords (or even chord fragments) all over the fretboard. You'll be amazed the new life it breathes into progressions you've used for years. The past week I've challenged myself to find as many ways to play a 6-2-5-1 in the same key as I can and some cool stuff has come from the practice.

[@maxonmendel5757]

@@Terribleguitarist89 that's so handy! I just took five or ten minutes to give that a try: i went through the open chords Am Dm G C and picked a three-string set on that progression to pull shapes from. then I took it up a few frets and played barre chords using those same shapes. The best is the DGB string set cause it already forms a first inversion major triad

[@BeefNEggs057]

Wish no more. The fairy fountain of wishes may have run dry but KZbin never disappoints with its plethora of mediocre lessons ✌🏼.

[@ficheye00]

This is a mediocre lesson to you? He's actually encouraging people to make things up and be original. If you want lessons that aren't 'mediocre' all you have to do is go to one of the lessons that you think isn't mediocre. - @@BeefNEggs057

[@acousticknights9654]

YES!!! I love finger picking. I feel like this is a great way to get people into it. It was after years of playing that I heard about putting my thumb forward...so I never really got the hang of that...but this is solid information for sure

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@Tanglangfa]

Excellent video! The right hand-left pocket key grab maneuver is tricky! Seriously though, you could call this “How your right hand can make all that music theory sound good.” 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

[@seandaniel23]

I'm gonna throw my back out one day with the maneuver.

[@Tanglangfa]

Sean Daniel have to wear the right pants with the right pockets.

[@devoncarter2392]

SOOOO going to practice this when I get home! Thank you so much! 🙌🏼😁

[@seandaniel23]

Happy to help!

[@bossman8805]

Fantastic lesson

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@bossman8805]

Thanks for making these!

[@leebraly3904]

Didn't know this. Cool idea. Thanks for sharing.

[@seandaniel23]

Always happy to help!

[@ficheye00]

Thanks for the reminder about rhythmic playing. I've been trying to travis pick and sort of forgot what I did before.

[@seandaniel23]

Happy to help!

[@startingfingerstyle]

Great to see you using a Faith... Love mine (Legacy Neptune), they play so nicely...... shame Patrick Eggle has stopped designing acoustics now..... perhaps those out there are destined to become highly valuable collectors' items in the future!

[@ferra51]

That right-hand technique with the thumb out ahead is how Mark Knopfler plays all the time. I love the things that are possible playing this way; too bad I suck at it.

[@seandaniel23]

You'll get there.

[@TheCosmicBusker]

Great vid and great timing! Get this story...just happened to me about 5 days ago... I spent 2 or 3 days here in the train station writing a finger style song called "Down to My Soul". During those 2 or 3 days here writing the song I had beautiful woman after beautiful woman raving about. A homeless drunk sat watching this for days and grew jealous. On the third day, I finished the song and performed it in the train station. A hot blonde in spike heels raved about the song and how beautiful it was. That set off the drunk. When she left, he began blasting me and screaming at me and ultimately jumped me. I was forced to beat the crap out of him and gave him 2 swollen eyes. I never knew this finger style stuff was of such a violent nature.

[@seandaniel23]

Now THAT is some cosmic busking.

[@Seltaeb_]

The thing is, Sean. This is hard. How do you fake knowing this? Can I just like lipsync stuff with my guitar while playing Rob Scallon songs?

[@seandaniel23]

You can always lip sync.

[@KwameMitchell]

dude im loving that guitar

[@aoldatabase]

good timing for this vid for me, thanks

[@seandaniel23]

Glad to hear it!

[@tomekberg9252]

great lesson sean, thank you

[@seandaniel23]

Happy to help!

[@handler803]

Hey Sean, can you make another video on how to write bossa nova chord progressions. I mean, I know my major7th, minor 7th, major 9th, minor 9th, and basic chords as well as basic fingerstyle work but how do I put them together in a coherent manner?

[@zeoh6000]

Trollstation123 yes please it would be great

[@seandaniel23]

Great idea!

[@jon.wilson]

You got a dent in your guitar there

[@emmapink4906]

It's where the djent lives

[@bad_azz_punk]

Lol

[@seandaniel23]

Hey oh!

[@Mikey-wg2xu]

But does it dent?

[@lentas08]

Its called a "Scallop" a personal deign requested from Faithguitars which they now use on their top end Mercury parlour guitars, and beautiful to play they are.

[@sapelesteve]

Good lesson Sean! BTW, is that a "Mini" guitar? I like that little "cut out", although it does look a little strange.......................... :)

[@seandaniel23]

It's a 'parlour'

[@BB-sn6yr]

Love this lesson. Where did you buy that guitar? Interested in one.

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks! Here's their site: www.faithguitars.com/

[@BB-sn6yr]

@@seandaniel23 Thanks!

[@KunchangLeeMusic]

Great lesson 👌🏿

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks for watching!

[@lentas08]

Really nice beginners lesson by the way, slow and cool by your standards. Been learning John Mayers " Stop this Train" the finger action is quite close. Nice to hear your take on it.

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@discobaby9931]

Yeah!!! Stinky pinky bro! It's about introducing it, nice and easy when needed! Slip it in there! Don't be afraid people! if you got it! USE IT!

[@seandaniel23]

#pro tip

[@discobaby9931]

@@seandaniel23 you got that right Jack!👍

[@maxonmendel5757]

Thanks a ton for this video! I'm a bassist and sometimes I have trouble figuring out what to do with my fingers when I play a six string.

[@seandaniel23]

Happy to help!

[@carlotapuig]

Ok, 4-5 Sean's lessons a week eventually made me know a lot of things with hardly any effort. Now I'm pretty comfortable improvising but still have no repertoire since I'm lazy and don't learn songs, at least not whole songs. Sean, how to make me learn songs?

[@seandaniel23]

QUIT BEING LAZY AND DO IT!!!! ;)

[@lentas08]

Hey Sean, That Faith Mercury parlour scallop looks really cool, I'm biting at the bit to try one.

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks! I'm gonna make a standalone video on it soon!

[@bradking1067]

That idea at around 12:00-12:10 is beautiful you should elaborate on it! thanks for sharing hope you are well God loves you deeply Shalom 🎸 🔊🏞️🏔️⛰️🎊🎉✨🎇🎆🐕🎈🎵🎶

[@JeremyKroeker]

Thank you for giving us permission to watch Rick Beato again. Because I watch you for information. I watch Rick for history.

[@seandaniel23]

Rick is a smart dude!

[@omgvanta514]

You make me feel better for using my pinky. That's how I learned how to pick and I didn't really have a teacher. Some guy told me I'm picking wrong and made it seem like there's something wrong with me. I was bummed out cuz I spent so many years practicing with my pinky.

[@seandaniel23]

Don't be bummed at all! The more control you have the better!

[@mattmatt516]

This was really helpful!

[@seandaniel23]

Happy to hear it!

[@josecuervorok]

Good video Sean, I've been teaching myself this technique, making progress. Question, I'm thinking of buying a camera to do short videos for self promotion for local gigging. Would you suggest a go pro or an actual camera for high quality videos?

[@seandaniel23]

Personally I prefer the versatility of an actual DSLR but the go pro is really an amazing piece of gear. I don't actually own one, but Andres (who is on my channel a lot) has one. If you have specific questions you should pop on over to his channel and ask.

[@natestrings673]

Hey Sean, why are you and a few others using Faith guitars right now? Are you sponsored by them? Never heard of them, but they do look nice.

[@samfar28]

Who's your muse Sean?I love this lesson!!

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks so much!

[@spinnerone105]

Piling on with my own “fantastic” Thx!

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks so much!

[@notyourpapa]

I'm sitting here in Cuba on vacation on internet that costs per hour and tuned in for this great video.

[@_adg_0]

Speaking of Travis picking (like 2 seconds in the video), I don't know if you have ever tried those thumb picks (maybe you talked about those), I bought some to try, I'm still waiting for them so I haven't tried them yet. I wanted to try because I felt like the thumb was not making the bass ring as I wanted, or not enough anyway. I started working on some Tommy Emmanuel tunes and I thought having a thumb pick could make a difference in the tone, especially when the bass notes are muted. So I was wondering what you were thinking about those and if it was weird at first.

[@seandaniel23]

I still need to try those!

[@Mroklum12]

As a beginner fingerstyle player and Tommy's fan the 1st thing i did was to buy one of these thumb picks, cuz just like great Tommy said "your pick is your biggest aplifier". So I started my 1st lessons on fingerstyle, ready with my thumb pick and the 1st thing i notice while resting my fingers on the strings was like "Daaaaaaaaamn my thumb needs a flight ticket to that low E string now!". What i love about fingerstyle is that you feel that you're in control of every individual string, and with that thumb pick it's kinda strange cuz you don't really feel the bass ones. On the other hand (or other finger?) you're able to make the bass strings really stand out and shine above your higher strings, and when you add some palm muting to this and utilize Tommy's "boom-chick" sound, it does sound amazing!

[@JPVanderbuilt]

You get used to thumb picks really fast, I promise you. They're great. Order 2 or 3 different types and you'll find one that you love.

[@Mroklum12]

@@JPVanderbuilt Sure they are, those are wonderful and the only proof for that I need is listening to any Tommy Emmanuel song. One thing I noticed is I've been putting it on wrong, and when i realized this I decided to learn the above mentioned artist's songs with some Mark Knopfler vibe (who weren't using one of those), since my classical guitar responds to my finger's sound pretty well :D

[@Mroklum12]

@@JPVanderbuilt I just wanted to give you an update on today's discovery as I was practicing with my thumb pick like a wild beast. First of all, you were totally right, I started with my basic fingerpicking technique with the thumb pick and after like 15 minutes i got my control back, it felt like I shouldn't just drop out the idea in the 1st place cuz it was just soooo perfect! Then I started to wonder "that thing is unable to escape my finger like a normal pick would, wonder what would happen if I played an easy rythm song on chords like American Pie?" With a super relaxed right hand I managed to get an amazing tone playing classical chords that sounded awesome, and I haven't dropped a pick! Then I tried some lead stuff, holding my thumbpick like a normal one and it was awesome too, i achieved an amazing precision, and sometimes when i really got lost in the music i had an attack of a metalhead! Totally fell in love with those, getting some more today! :D

[@Arfshesaid457]

What a gorgeous guitar. Is that new?

[@seandaniel23]

New-ish. I love it.

[@Arfshesaid457]

I can’t quite make out the brand due to the Beato-bothering device on the headstock.

[@Arfshesaid457]

Oh you just said it. I’d missed that the first time around.

[@MattMcConaha]

Tip for those having trouble with the "thumb ahead" thing, holding the guitar in a classical position makes it way easier. In order to get your thumb ahead you need your hand to come at the strings as perpendicularly as possible. You might find that you need to pretty severely bends your wrist to achieve this perpendicularity. But if you just angle the guitar instead, you can keep your wrist in line with your arm, which is more comfortable, easier, and safer. But at the cost of looking lame.

[@seandaniel23]

#pro tip

[@t-bonewolfe4097]

The most impressive thing I can do with my right hand is hit that Like Button. Question: do you ever use hybrid picking?

[@seandaniel23]

I'll talk about this one soon!

[@kenlee5015]

Can't go wrong with the minor 3rd. C#min FTW

[@seandaniel23]

You know it!

[@nieinteresujsie4396]

some fingerstyle compendium maybe ?

[@seandaniel23]

Good idea!

[@bluesoundx]

Now we're talking ;)

[@seandaniel23]

You know it!

[@nathanbernhardt6807]

Fingerpicking open chords convinces people I'm a decent guitarist. I throw an Add9 here and there to spice it up a little.

[@seandaniel23]

Add9 for the win!

[@sawyermorgan9665]

What the fingerpicking style at 0:51?

[@seandaniel23]

It's called travis picking: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5WZaIWpf76lp6M&t=

[@jckdnls9292]

Is that a 3/4 guitar?

[@seandaniel23]

Well it's a parlour guitar, so not technically 3/4, but essentially.

[@swaggercat]

You're one of the very few that talk about the thumb being out front and not forming "the claw", which is my personal struggle. Thumb out front feels so awkward for me.

[@seandaniel23]

You can do it Swaggercat!

[@timwood958]

"By the way, I'm using this Faith 'tarethpowered' Guitar" What the heck? @1:40

[@seandaniel23]

Haha, I think I meant to say Faith parlour guitar but you know...

[@davidmckean955]

Your fingerstyle videos always confuse me and it's obvious that you didn't learn it the same way I did. I was taught first to just strum chords with my thumb and get a feel for the strings, then to play the root note and strum the rest of the chord & to keep rhythm, then I was taught to play alternating bass notes while still strumming the rest of the chord with my thumb, and then finally how to walk bass notes between different chords. After that I was taught the simplest versions of the different travis picking patterns, then I was taught some variations on all those patterns. Then I was taught to pick out some basic melodies using mostly hammer-ons and pull-offs. (This all took me close to two years BTW) After I had all that down I was told I could basically learn any other intermediate or advanced fingerstyle techniques I wanted to.

[@seandaniel23]

Definitely different ways to go about it :)

[@casaMariaPT]

I think you meant repetitive

[@Royal-sp9pb]

that's a fucking beautiful guitar... anyone know what the model is

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks! It's a Faith Guitars Mercury

[@Royal-sp9pb]

Sean Daniel love your channel!

[@riwajrai]

Come on sean, pass me ur guitar 😂

[@seandaniel23]

:)

[@Jessica-wd8br]

Im not bout that life

[@seandaniel23]

Never will be :)

[@Tuga4life]

You and ur intros 😂

[@seandaniel23]

:)

[@Tuga4life]

@@seandaniel23 at 2:33 is it kause I am from 🇵🇹 and i kant understand the full word or u messed that word up? 😂 😂

[@davidhoxit4274]

Great guitar tutorial. Although, " getting the thumb out ahead of the fingers and you can get the Pinky in if you want" sound more applicable to the banjo😂

[@johnmiller7951]

Nice guitar!

[@seandaniel23]

Thanks so much!

[@abdealidholkawala8237]

First

[@seandaniel23]

Champion!

[@andrewprasanna9323]

Just get to the point!!! Too much talking!!!

[@johnjones4049]

I dont wanna be accused of being BISEXUAL just kinda sad my future wife killed someone while driving she moved to Washington state" how do they do that?Not really anyway good lesson fingers are kinda stiff not sure can make the nails sound like you..thanks

[@seandaniel23]

Interesting.

[@casaMariaPT]

I think you meant repetitive