The BEST Fingerpicking Pattern! Amaze Your Friends!! 😲

The BEST Fingerpicking Pattern! Amaze Your Friends!! 😲
In this lesson, I'll be showing you an amazing fingerpicking pattern for acoustic guitar. This pattern is in 4/4 time (or 4 beats per measure) so it can be easily applied to many songs.
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0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Example Song
0:44 - Pattern Breakdown
7:21 - You Are My Sunshine
7:54 - Keep On The Sunny Side
8:23 - I Walk The Line
8:52 - Outro
My guitar (McPherson Sable): mcphersonguitars.com/carbon-s...

[@enduringpromise]

Love that the guitar is shown from the guitarist perspective.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

glad you liked it!

[@bigal25938]

Great job. Finally showing the strings in the way they should always be shown in the perspective of the player.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@vvgmhod4]

Without a doubt, the best and clearest fingerpicking video I've seen. Guitar teachers should be offering this camera orientation much more often.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thanks! Glad you think so!

[@vonsoutavong-vongsay3117]

Thanks. This the best lesson..

[@richardjohnson6205]

Excellent graphics Jonathan. Easy to understand and well demonstrated and explained. Keep up the great work.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thanks Richard! Glad you liked it

[@riccouchman5604]

Thank you very much. I am a beginner, and I just made that pattern part for my fingerpicking practice routine. I got the three thumb registers nicely combined and am working on those and then I will incorporate the finger registers. I get to practice a tune and to do finger picking exercise at the same time. This is awesome. Just what I needed. Liked and subbed.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

you're welcome! Glad it was helpful for you!

[@brucemacdonald3051]

Just like your previous useful chord picking pattern this is a good one to master for fingerstyle. Thank you so much.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome Bruce! Glad you liked to it.

[@stevenprince9907]

Absolutely brilliant video Jonathan. Thank you

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome!

[@rumcache]

Sounds beautiful .... looking forward to playing this. Thank you ever so much...

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome! Enjoy!

[@cyrilmoussoki3193]

Matondo : Merci pour le partage. Thank you for sharing

[@teedtad2534]

Well explained! Enjoyed! Hope he does more step by step pop songs!! He doesn't rush lessons , good job!! Easy to follow! ✅🐝🐝✅

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Glad you liked it!

[@dimarcoluciano8403]

Well explained. Great demo

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thanks!

[@chineduogbonna8025]

Just seeing your video for the first time and subscribing .... Your teaching pattern in top notch... I started my guitar journey Feb 2023 and have been doing fine with the guitar... I believe your page would be of great help to me in this my new found love...

[@StevenJarrett1961]

Excellent lesson. Thanks Jonathan

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome!

[@1K18V21]

This is an excellent instructional video, thank you!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

you're welcome!

[@Stevemind88]

Love this pattern and teaching style is perfect for me. Thank you

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

you're welcome!

[@SadSongsForU]

Excellent lesson, i finally came along with the teaching

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

glad you liked it

[@bbbernier]

Thanks!!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

you're welcome!

[@user-es2lk6kk2r]

Your guitar is incredible😮😮😮😮❤❤

[@McPeg7]

Great lesson. I think I can do this now 😊. Thanks so much.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome! Good luck!

[@LoLo-pv6do]

Got it, thanks! You are a really great teacher!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome! Glad you think so!

[@127Foxtrot]

Thx Jon, a lovely pattern to pick up !

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

you're welcome!

[@geralynpalacol3764]

WOW, What a Beautiful Pattern!!! I've never seen this one before. ✅️Can't wait to learn this one!!! THANKS SO MUCH COACH!!!!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

you're welcome

[@onetakeadventureswithjoeld4679]

awesome teacher! Thanks :) Joel

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome Joel!

[@douglasholdenjr.45]

Just discovered your channel last night. Great lesson!!! Subscribed to the channel.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

glad you like it!

[@randyandtrudyosborne905]

Thankk you so much!!! Love this and it helped me to learn to pick!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

you're welcome! Glad it was helpful

[@mettelyngholm4541]

This was very helpful and gave me something to practise ❤❤

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

glad to hear it!!

[@jameswawe8584]

Wow, this is one of the best teaching I ever come across before. It's very easy to understand and get it done with my finger styles. Thank you so much brother, you such an angel from the heaven above ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

thanks so much for the kind words. I'm glad it was helpful!

[@jameswawe8584]

@@SimplifiedGuitar you're welcome brother, greetings from papua New Guinea 🇵🇬🇵🇬🇵🇬🇵🇬❤️💯

[@warwick4178]

Thank you Jonathan for help with fingerpicking guitar and yes graphics are excellent.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

you're welcome. Glad you like it!

[@user-eu6rj4lv9u]

Thanks for the lesson, easy to understand, go ahead .Greatings from germany

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

you're welcome

[@heathermorrisdvm8230]

Beautiful

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thank you

[@amarnathmullick9873]

Too much good and nice

[@goforgod1945]

You explained that well. Easy to follow. Amen

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Glad you thought so!

[@goforgod1945]

I will be following you, Jonathan. Amen.

[@johnmacmillan627]

Thank you. Your graphics are excellent!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome. Glad you liked it!

[@AnthonysTrends]

Amazing talent and thanks for sharing🤗☝️👍👏👏👏

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

thanks! Glad you liked it

[@doublepanthers3088]

Thank you for this. I shall work on it this weekend. Great pattern. The diagrams are so extremely helpful.

[@makermusik]

Thanks so much! So clearly presented!

[@JoBrew]

Great video and use of visuals. I enjoyed your singing you have a really nice voice.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

thanks! Glad you liked it

[@choiceblade]

DUDE. You are messing with my BRAAAAAAIN - this is so exciting!!! I can do it. I got it. Ican DOOOOO it.

[@Clothahump1]

Looks like a modified Travis pick. Sounds very nice!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Glad you like it

[@tjstevens001]

Good stuff

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

thanks!

[@sar9375]

Well explained ❤ easy to follow for a beginner like me

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@erolgermannemmanuel5637]

Danke! Decent by all means.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thanks so much, Erol!! You're awesome!

[@richardsingh6014]

Now picking up the guitar for the first time. Your style of video, the combination of digital and realtime placement of the left and right hands are excellent. Good job.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thanks Richard. I'm glad you appreciate the digital editing. It's a lot of work!

[@whatsupchicken]

Thank you for flipping the video so we can see it in our POV. I made a video once on my channel how you can see any guitar teaching video like that, how you can just flip the screen in your device's settings easily. And very nice graphical time based explanation as well. Cool video cool sound great everything. Thanks.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

you're welcome. Glad you noticed that :)

[@ServiceOrchestramegastore]

thank you. Jonathan, I really like the way you taught this finger picking pattern. I am not any expert in root note thing yet. so i need a lazy way to overcome this thing. So I thought If you could do this same video to all 12 main chords that really will reveal me how I should continue. thank you again,

[@venusstefan918]

AMAZING SOUND GOOD. Please can you Tell me The Brand of this Wonderful Guitar. Tanks a lot

[@joemonk2291]

Nice

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thanks!

[@shruthiAS]

Wow. You make it sound so simple. Thank you very much. 😊 Will you be able to teach Lion and the Lamb please 🙏

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're very welcome. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@gladisgracechellaiah5079]

First one to view ❤ can't wait to try this. Thanks much 😍

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome! And thanks for being the first to comment!

[@atongbaring495]

Thank You very much for the Lesson. I will try it. ❤🎉

[@DallasSportsHomer]

Just beginning, but I love your video angle. Make it much easier to visualize and compare your instruction to what I’m doing. Subscribed after watching this video. Thanks!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

I'm glad to hear it!

[@tommyhammer7038]

Thanks Jonathan! I'll be signing up soon. I love your easy to follow, simplified instruction. By the way, in your intro, are you in the country of Jordan? It looks just like a place we went on occasion while we were there.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Hey Tommy. Yes, that song intro was recorded in Wadi Rum.

[@CarlWinter-oy8uf]

Nice lesson ---! Is "Dear Prudence " I learned long ago --an example of Travis Picking arpeggios---? The D chord starts way up on 14 fret --EBG ---strings ---and -comes down those top strings in stages - can you demo this song ?---appreciate. ---

[@cynthiacisneros1694]

😎 guitar 🥰

[@lowellirish]

Thanks! Its basically Travis picking...right?

[@dysondco1]

My next journey is to learn fingerstyle, thanks for my first lesson, really easy to understand,

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome. Glad to hear it!

[@Ahmed-kv4up]

The correct pattern is from the root to the fifth. For example for C: C to G in fret 3 sixth string.

[@user-yy1bv2th4b]

Very Cool! Could you possibly learn the song Run by Collective-Soul? Thanks!!

[@chrisdavis3590]

What kind of guitar are you using in this video?

[@reneewickham1033]

Great tutorial. Thank you so much.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

You're welcome!

[@jed88]

POV camera angle helps. Cheers.

[@barrya.6212]

SECOND GROUP OF STRINGS ADDED >> 3:46 ...with visual layout / tab @ 4:49

[@JMJ9]

Well done. One question. Can you improvise the picking pattern? Because ive seen so many different Travis styles im getting confused

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

yes, you can definitely improvise. The important thing is that you stay in the same time signature

[@OldC00T]

Great lesson, love you guitar. Who makes it?

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

Thanks, glad you like it. That's a McPherson Sable. Great guitar.

[@luvastandardbred8270]

Jonathan what brand and model of guitar is that, please? It's gorgeous, but why would they put the hole at the top rather than the middle?

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

it's a McPherson Sable. The reason behind the hole placement, is to have the longest part of the body undisturbed by a hole, for better reverberation. Their guitars are ingenious. Look them up.

[@davidofug]

This is wonderful. Is there an official name for this picking pattern? Could someone recommend some Worship songs for this pattern?❤

[@dankernut3750]

This is the Travis pattern

[@markbrown7103]

Those are cool patterns. But there are only arpeggio’s. Because you have to sing with them I like playing bass lines and melody and harmony all at the same time. I’ve been doing this for 49 years finger style guitar is a beautiful way of playing a guitar. It’s hard to do but in the long run it’s well worth it to learn it. I also feel like reading music is a sensual to go with finger style guitar playing. One compliments, the other I should know this I’m a solo instrumental, guitarist, but you have excellent teaching skills. Thanks for the video.👍🏼👍🏼❤️😁🎸

[@luvastandardbred8270]

Why did you go out of your way to leave a snide comment on this excellent video? I love Chet Atkins...pretty sure you don't play as well as he did...

[@user-yy1bv2th4b]

And how about Our God is An Awesome God from the movie A Week Away? Thanks!!

[@JoeyLocig]

Does anyone know how someone good like this that can help with lessons for contemporary Christian music.

[@havenneak8846]

you are my best teacher in the WORLD ONLY YOU , I ENJOYED A LOT ECTERA..

[@hannesdewaal2765]

What’s the name of the intro song? Nice pattern indeed! Well done!

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

The open road by hollow coves

[@leoniedesilva9387]

👏👏👍👍🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Peacheslaroo]

I think I need to review root notes

[@user-vt8ki2we3c]

How about the minor chord,how wil u pluck it.tnx Sir.

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

the picking is the same for minor chords. The only thing you need to remember is the root note of a chord, which will change the thumb position of the plucking, for instance G, the root note is located on the low E string, whereas A, the root note is on the A string. So the thumb will switch for the fingerpicking. But whether it's an A major or A minor, the root note is A for both, and therefore the plucking is the same.

[@barrya.6212]

SAMPLE PICKING >> 5:07 ..... MULTI CHORD SAMPLE >> 7:07

[@barrya.6212]

LESSON BEGINNING >> 1:16

[@lowellirish]

I've noticed that some pickers have malformed thumbs like yourself...is this because you started young and just ended up like that, or are BOTH thumbs like this? 🤔

[@choiceblade]

I LOVE this comment...taken at face value. I HAVE this same thumb (ironically, which I regard as the aesthic ICON of human thumbdom) but whatever, you prolly have a differently shaped thumb (and clearly iconic in from your own perspective), and so here lies the truly valuable nut of your observation. One could argue both windows: weird thumb, different thumb, dumb thumb, etc) ...OR...thumbs don't matter (I know. A highly triggering suggestion amoung primates) but that really it's balls. BALLS... or the permission one gives oneself to model the successful and acheive simailar RESULTS for oneself. Right?!?

[@folkrock4u]

You know this is "Travis Picking" right?

[@TheBoi20]

How to be a famous guitar player

[@danielshafer8479]

Travis picking....

[@sobeit1927]

The sound and video of the pattern being played are not synchronised and the guitar is upside down . (I understand this is POV ) . Also when demonstrating the pattern the vocals clouded the pattern out a bit . Nice pattern but the vid could do with tweaking. IMO . Thanks anyhow .

[@rw4170]

If you stand on your head, the guitar will no longer be upside down! Voila, problem solved.

[@lucienvergez1565]

Non,le pouce vers l’extérieur et non derrière le doigt !

[@barbaramurrray1802]

Shake hands with the strings, index won’t get tangled up with your thumb. Just a thought

[@TheMicrofox]

Nice guitar! Carbon? Which brand/model?

[@SimplifiedGuitar]

McPherson Sable

[@TheMicrofox]

@@SimplifiedGuitar 3699, wow, expensive. Thanks anyway.