Travis Picking Basics Part 1 - Guitar Fingerpicking

[@Swissfairy]

Your explanation is the best from so many videos available . I love how you explain step by step and we build muscle memory easier this way. Many thanks soooo much. Wishing you and your family Happy Festive Holidays 😊

[@JeffreyBurtonYT]

This is the best and clearest lesson on Travis Picking on the internet. Thanks so much!

[@bobgure]

I learned Travis picking when I was 15 and thank goodness. Like riding a bike, I never forgot it, although it can get rusty..hmmm, well like a bike when not maintained. Very IMPORTANT (sorry for the caps) was to immediately learn songs with it. I was taught BY learning the songs; a small repertoire. Being an 'old timer' it was blues oriented stuff. SIMPLE stuff, predominantly key of C : John Hurt's 'You Are My Sunshine", 'Freight Train', 'Blowin' in the Wind', and alot of Ragtime : Gary Davis stuff (tough for beginners) Keep the alternating bass going at all costs and learn tunes, tunes.. This was the best thing I ever learned on guitar and grateful to the teachers who (often impatiently) guided me. End of Sermon (lol). Thanks.

[@TomGoldsmithguitar]

well said mate

[@MJ-tg7wv]

Jusat found this. Excellent explantaion and I love the tabs. I play the piano and keyboards - and so learnt music by reading - so for me - having a simple tab helps me translate and makes this so much easier. Happily kept up. I already finger pick - but want some variations. Think learning the piano has definitely helped my brain cope with finger picking on the guitar. Really good and will hunt the rest of your lessons. Happy playing all

[@billycratty746]

Great job thanks, makes lots of sense much easier to understand!!

[@RythymBeast]

Very well done lesson! Informative and simply taught! Perfect. Thanks, dude.

[@1dandy49]

thanks for this lesson. It was very easy to follow. Thanks also for the tabs to go with it.

[@PapaOldie1]

👍perfect for this long time strummer’ and really wanna learn this playing technique’ great lessons! Thanks 🙏

[@arnenielsen9616]

Thanks. Really Nice and Easy to understand.

[@100perdido]

Attention K Mart Shoppers: I have tired and failed to learn this many times. My problem is that I watch one teacher then another who, other than the basic thumb movement, may show you a slightly different pattern and your brain is tossed into a blender and your fingers are lost in the wilderness. My plan is to stick with this guy's two videos and no matter how much I am tempted to try some other pattern, do not do it until you can play this in your sleep. Tell yourself that if you succumb to temptation to change one thing that John Prine will haunt your dreams and make you deliver the mail in the freezing rain with dogs chasing you. Thanks for this video. I have locked myself inside my house and turned off the phone and won't come out until I have gotten this.

[@PhilbyFavourites]

Have you left the house yet?

[@100perdido]

@@PhilbyFavourites I was going to a while back but remembered that I had nailed the door shut to prevent my escaping.

[@lastoftheurgents1965]

easy to understand and you don't go to quickly. thanks

[@santiagoalonso7257]

Chuck norris are you? Great lesson!

[@southwestfresh77071]

great approach teaching

[@glendean202]

I concur... great lesson!

[@jeffsimslmt]

I’m hearing mostly buzzing on the E (2nd fret, D string)

[@romanbouchouiev]

Thank you! This is really nice and helpful!

[@dotboyekd164]

Good explanation! 🇱🇺👍😁

[@afrikan1000]

For the record, it is unfortunate that this style of guitar playing is credited to Merle Travis and NOT Arnold Schultz who is the real creator of this method of guitar playing. Arnold Schultz born in Kentucky in 1886 developed the "thumb-style" method of playing guitar that eventually evolved into the Kentucky style for which such musicians as Chet Atkins and Merle Travis would be known. Shultz taught his guitar methods to Kennedy Jones, who disseminated the "thumb-style" methods further. His methods were passed down further to Merle Travis and Ike Everly. Literature Source : Flippo, Chet (2004). "Arnold Shultz". In Paul Kingsbury; Laura Garrard; Daniel Cooper; John Rumble. The Encyclopedia of Country Music. County Music Hall of Fame & Museum. Sourcebooks, Inc. p. 484. ISBN 0-19-517608-1.

[@guitaristmathewsloan8006]

I really like the video! Its helpful! Suggestion: To get greater tone, use a thumbpick! Thank you though!

[@sandra.wonderfulduetbull6469]

Are there different picking for different rhymes, such as a waltz and etc.? 🇺🇸🎚🥀🕊🙏

[@yldrmdirik3500]

What is the name of the song played between 0.06 and 0.15? Thank you.

[@yvesdesrochers8288]

Yıldırım Dirik Dust in the wind

[@AkshaySinghJamwal]

4:21 to jump to the pattern.

[@65shaved]

TRAVIS PICKING BASICS 1

[@jorgecontreras7631]

Good !!!

[@Grappig999]

If Merle could hear this he should crie like a little baby.

[@Karenscott56]

soooo where's page 2???

[@justsaynototv8366]

He gets the name because he is white. I know that's what you meant. lol