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Folk Fingerstyle

Get started with Folk Fingerstyle and build all the foundation you need to start playing complex fingerstyle patterns.

10 Lessons

1 hour 45 mins

Folk Fingerstyle Module Intro

Folk Fingerstyle Module Intro

In this first introduction lesson we look at things you should know before starting and run you through an outline of the course!

Folk Fingerstyle Patterns Part 1

Folk Fingerstyle Patterns Part 1

To start our Folk Fingerstyle journey we're going to check out four very common fingerpicking patterns that you'll find come up a lot and make a solid foundation!

Folk Fingerstyle Patterns Part 2

Folk Fingerstyle Patterns Part 2

Only when comfortable playing the patterns in Part 1 without thinking about them, should you move onto these new patterns which introduce Finger 3!

Creating Fingerstyle Patterns

Creating Fingerstyle Patterns

Once you have some of the common patterns down, I think it's important to start making up your own patterns - you'll learn a LOT on this journey!

Major Chord Scale Relations

In this lesson we explore the relationship between the Major Scale and the three major chords in it's key. Fascinating and really useful stuff!

Happy Birthday Chord Melody

Everybody should know how to play a chord melody version of Happy Birthday!!! In this lesson we are looking at a real simple chord and melody version, we're not going t...

Minor Chord Scale Relations

We've already looked at the relationships between the 3 Major Chords in the Key of C (C, F and G) so now it's time to look at the Minor Chords in the Key of C: Am, Dm an...

Waltzing Matilda Chords & Melody

There are some really tricky versions of Waltzing Matilda around, but in this lesson we are just going to be looking a super simple version so you can see the chords and ...

Basic Travis Picking

Merle Travis was a great and innovative guitar player, and his style of country finger picking became a very commonly used pattern in Folk Fingerstyle and all the other f...

Folk Hammer-ons & Flick-offs

I still remember the day I figured out this was going on too... man that was a hard day. This stuff is kinda tricky but you know you can just take in a little bit and it'...

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