How to Fingerpick a Guitar

Fingerpicking a guitar is a technique of plucking the guitar strings with your fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to your fingers in a picking pattern. As opposed to picking the guitar with a flatpick playing individual notes.

Some people use the term Fingerstyle guitar but for me, Fingerstyle guitar is playing much more then a pattern. It includes rythm, melody and bass. We will cover Fingerstyle guitar in a later lesson.

Lettr and Numbers for Fingers: T = thumb  1 = index finger  2 = middle finger  3 = ring finger 

The Spanish name for your finges are p = thumb (pulgar), i = index finger (índice), m = major finger (mayor), a = ring finger (annular)

Below are 4 fingerpicking exercises. practice all 4 to get a feel for fingerpicking. We will cover more advanced fingerpicking techniques in the Fingerstyle Lesson section.