| Here is a free acoustic guitar lesson to help you | | | | with fingers two and three plucking the top two |
| improve your guitar playing skills quickly. This guitar | | | | strings again. When you've practiced the acoustic |
| learning techique will teach you how to fingerpick | | | | guitar lesson above a few times, it will become |
| folk-style, but in a Latin rhythm in the key of A. This | | | | second nature to you to pluck this Latin rhythm. Your |
| Latin rhythm has eight quick beats to the measure, | | | | next part of this acoustic guitar lesson is to try the |
| and is accented on the first, the fourth, and the | | | | same finger picking pattern using an E chord. Since |
| seventh beats. This guitar lesson will focus on using | | | | the open sixth string is your bass note, you'll pluck it |
| your right hand, and your thumb will play the | | | | on beat one. Follow through with the rest of the |
| accented beats. Your fingers will follow. Finger | | | | measure in the same pattern, except your thumb |
| number one, the index finger, is to pluck the third | | | | plucks the fifth string on beat four and the fourth |
| string on beats two, five, and eight, and fingers two | | | | string on beat seven. When you've mastered the E |
| and three will pluck the second and first strings | | | | chord the acoustic guitar lesson moves on to the D |
| together on beats three and six. In the following | | | | chord. With D, you can just use the fourth string for |
| acoustic guitar lesson, you will chord an A for the | | | | your thumb-plucked bass note each time. Acoustic |
| first sample. To keep it simple, let's take the beats | | | | Guitar Lesson Tip: Here's a fast acoustic guitar lesson |
| one at a time... Acoustic Guitar Lesson - 7 Steps to | | | | secret for making the above finger-picking style of |
| Chord an A: 1) First, the thumb plucks the open A | | | | guitar playing a little fancier. Chord an A. Here's how... |
| string for a bass note. 2) Next, finger one plucks the | | | | When you pluck the fourth beat of the measure lift |
| third string, which is sounding an A. 3) Then fingers | | | | your chording finger - it's the ring finger on your left |
| two and three pluck strings two and one together. | | | | hand. Lift it and then press it while plucking. You'll get |
| These two notes will be a C-sharp and the open top | | | | a little slur at the start of the note. This sounds great |
| E string. 4) Now the thumb immediately plucks string | | | | when you build speed up. Try the same little trick |
| four, which is an E and works as an alternate bass | | | | when playing the key of E, too. It will be finger two |
| string. That's beat 4. 5) Now beat five is just like | | | | that you will be lifting. Finally in this free acoustic |
| beat two, with finger one plucking string three. 6) | | | | guitar lesson for you, put everything together in a |
| Beat six is just like beat three, with fingers two and | | | | chord sequence. Play A for two measures, then D |
| three plucking the top two strings. 7) On beat seven, | | | | for two measures. Play E for two measures, then |
| use the thumb to pluck the third string, then finish up | | | | back to D for two measures, then A to finish up. |