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8 Fingerstyle Patterns You Must Know

Nate Savage  /  Lessons UPDATED Aug 26, 2021

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There are many reasons to explore fingerstyle technique on the guitar. Fingerstyle is a useful skill to have when
accompanying another player (like writing moving melodies over someone else’s open chords), or during a solo
acoustic guitar performance. To get you started, we’ll be going over 8 important fingerpicking patterns everyone
should know.

In this lesson, you’ll learn essential techniques like rolling and alternating bass patterns. You’ll recognize
these in many other patterns you’ll learn in the future, so it’s important to nail them down early.

Don’t feel like you need to memorize all of the patterns we go over here. Grab a few that you think you’ll use,
and add them to your daily practice routine. As you master those patterns, feel free to come back to this lesson
and add a couple more to your repertoire.


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