Syncopated Fingerstyle Pattern with C Major

What is syncopation?

It's basically playing off the beat, not on the main pulses of the rhythm.

By adding this syncopation to our fingerstyle playing; it adds a lot more movement making it sound more interesting and exciting to the ear!

Syncopated Fingerstyle Pattern

• Try this lesson too!

• Great example song is Dust in the Wind by Kansas

Using Fingerstyle to play Melodies

If you want to focus on the Fingerstyle method, I recommend trying the single note lines that we've covered in previous Jam Tracks using the Clawhand method = Thumb and Finger together.

• G major melody

• D major Melody

• C major scale

C Major Scale with Fingerstyle

The tab below shows the Inside-out fingerstyle pattern (with Syncopation) while moving between 3 notes of the C major scale (C, B and D notes on String 2)