Intermediate Guitar Fingerpicking: Add Scales and Melodies to Your Guitar Fingerpicking

By Patrick O'Malley

Take your acoustic guitar playing to the next level in 30 days!

Do you want to:

- master acoustic fingerpicking style?

- get the sound of Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins or Paul Simon?

- create the effect of 2 guitarists playing at once?

This book will show you how, featuring: 

- 90 page guide on fingerstyle theory

- guitar tabs for each exercise

- 100+ fingerstyle exercises

- learn new fingerpicking patterns and basslines

- Audio download (fast and slow versions) for each exercise

- Tips for each chapter if you need to get unstuck

This ebook includes:

- 90 page book

- tab for each exercise

- link to download additional PDFs

- link to download all audio files (2 for each exercise: fast and slow)

Testimonials

"A perfect match for me because I really enjoy the picking style. I have tried guitar before and stopped because I was frustrated. This bookpresents the topic in a easy to understand and achievable format." Roy Ayala

"Good learning path. A very good teacher going at a nice pace, so the learning is good and easy." Pierre Lefort

"Does what it says on the tin, went from being terrified of finger picking to already being able to play more than friends with much more guitar experience. Highly recommended" Darren Hallinan

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Nov 15, 2021

Book preview

Course Syllabus

Section 1 – Mixing Chords & Fingerpicking

By the end of this section, you will be able to play multiple bass patterns for each chord covered: C, G, Am, E, Em, D & F. You will palm mute chords and ‘flick’ chords. You will play the boom-chuck pattern. preview video

Section 2 – Building Melodies from Scales

By the end of this section, you will be able to play the C major and G major scale and blend scales with alternating bass patterns. You will use 8th notes, careful note placement and arpeggios to create melodies that breathe. preview video

Section 3 – Hammer-ons & Pull-offs

By the end of this section, you will be able to play hammer-ons and pull-offs and blend these into your bass patterns. You will create flurries of hammer-ons and pull-offs, play 8th note harmonies, and play melodic ideas with moving basslines. preview video

Section 4 – Fingerpicking the Blues

By the end of this section, you will be able to play a 12-bar blues in E and learn the basslines and blues riffs over the I, IV and V chord. You will play fingerstyle blues. preview video

Table of Contents

Section 1 – Mixing Chords & Fingerpicking

1.1 About this Book

1.2 Common Bass Patterns

1.3 Picking, Muting & Strumming

1.4 The Boom-Chuck Pattern

Section 2 – Building Melodies from Scales

2.1 Building fingerpicking patterns from scales

2.2 Creating Melodic Lines

2.3 Placing Melody Notes

2.4 Scales & Melodies in G

Section 3 – Hammer-ons & Pull-offs

3.1 Fingerpicking with Hammer-Ons

3.2 Fingerpicking with Pull-Offs

3.3 Syncing with Hammered-on Notes

3.4 Putting it all together

Section 4 – Fingerpicking the Blues

4.1 Intro to 12-Bar Blues

4.2 Playing over I chord

4.3 Playing over IV chord

4.4 Blues Turnarounds

Author

Patrick O’Malley is an acoustic fingerstyle guitarist and teacher who has been playing and teaching guitar for 20 years.

Patrick playing guitar

Over 25,000 students have taken his Zero to Fingerpicker in 30 days course for beginner guitarists. Patrick believes that fingerpicking is the best way to learn guitar and improve quickly as a guitarist.

Listen to his guitar playing in the band Resin or visit his site for learning guitar at learnfingerpicking.com

Bonuses

You can now download a set of bonuses that come with the purchase of this book.

You will find the full PDF version of this book and PDFs with tab from the course that you can use to see