Fingerstyle 04 - Basic Fingerstyle Pattern

This is a nice, easy fingerstyle pattern to get you started, I promise! An arpeggio is a chord played one note at a time. In this example, the notes will ring out so the chord hand should hold down the notes of the chord at all times.

It’s really important to keep the timing of each note even. Playing this pattern with any pauses in the rhythm is incorrect, it needs to be even. To being with, the pace of a ticking clock is great (60 bpm) working up to around 100 bpm.

For this first example we’ll stay on a standard C major chord. The picking pattern for each bar is as follows;Thumb - 1 - 2 - 3 - 2 - 1. This exercise uses the orthodox method with the picking hand. The thumb should play string 5 only.

Basic Fingerstyle Arpeggio Pattern

Use the interactive TAB to set your tempo (starting much slower is fine!). Use the 'loop' feature to challenge yourself play along to this in a loop four times!