Beginning Guitar Quick Tips #3 – Learning Fingerpicking

You have some really good videos for teaching someone how to play the guitar but isn’t part of the learning process correcting the student when they make a mistake? You can’t correct someone from the internet because you don’t know if they made a mistake in the first place. This was very interesting but I just don’t think most people can learn this way.

Well with the cords lesson and now this one I am well on my way to being an actual guitar player. Thank you so much for giving me what I couldn’t afford to pay for but that I have wanted for so long. I just hope that I am doing this right. I also hope that you will be posting more lessons like this. Thank you so much.

From what I understand doesn’t this make your finger sore? I thought I read something to that effect the other day because of how you have to hold some of the cords your whole hand can get sore, is that right? If that is the case maybe I don’t want to learn how to do this. Your video was done very well and I hope that you will continue to post more.

Agnes, if you weren’t doing it right it would sound terrible and you could definitely tell then. If you sound anything like the teacher then you are getting it. And you have to be honest with yourself about it. If you can’t tell then have an outsider listen to you both and tell you. This is an easy and cheap way to learn so take your time and do it right.

I have watched people do this and their fingers get cut by the string or they have rather beefy fingers and they end up playing more than one cord at a time. I personally believe that the best way is to use a pick , that is what they were made for. Or those little finger tip things that have the pick built on to the side of it.

Fingerpicking can hurt right if you don’t do it right? I’ve often wondered if you would get a blister or a callus on your finger that you pick with or would they just be sore all the time. There are so many different ways to play the guitar and so many different guitars to play that I find it difficult to keep up. I hope to learn even more from you on the next video.