Fingerstyle（指弹风格）基础

Hi, this is Hub Guitar.

We're going to do a basic introduction to fingerstyle. I've found that even absolute beginners can get started playing fingerstyle guitar after just 20 minutes of studying this lesson.

Fingerstyle just means you pluck the strings with your fingers -- not a pick. Normally you'd use your thumb, index, middle and ring. They're are abbreviated from Spanish terms: p, i, m, a. The pinky is not normally used.�

The cool thing about fingerstyle is that you'll be selecting notes to pluck with your plucking hand, so the chord shapes you make with your fretting hand can consist of both correct and incorrect notes, as you'll only be plucking the correct notes.�

Let's do a few warmups.�

First, we're going to use a G major chord shape with an open E on the end like this. That's called a Gmaj6. And we're going to pluck a downward roll with P, I, M, A.

Now, we'll do the same thing but we'll separate the thumb; just let the thumb keep plucking the G and the other three fingers can move around.�

Now we'll do a forward roll followed by a backwards roll.

Now let's play a bit of music.

We're going to play a nice and easy fingerstyle pattern with a bass that moves around a little bit. The chord part will be pretty much the same. Open d, open g and D on the third fret. The bass part will go like this:

So now we'll combine them together. Bass, chord, bass, chord.

Once you get comfortable with that you may like to throw in the High E string occasionally, or even some other notes from the open position G major scale. I'm going to give you a quick example too. OK! Great! So try those patterns out for yourself and see if you can get your right hand really comfortable with those basic fingerstyle patterns and that's going to open up a lot for you to do open position chord.�