This was a WONDERFUL lesson!! ❤ I have been working on the pinch pattern now for months...but I know I'm doing it wrong. I have to change my technique...You're really the ONLY person on here that does such a fine job of showing! It could do with a little bit more zoom in though...and I really didn't understand what you meant re:.fingering the chord? Don't play the 3 fingered G, only 1 finger? And don't that with every chord? What about like the F 4-fingered Barre, or B or F#m barre?
@@mikemahin They're all up, they are just spaced out. Here's a playlist of all of them together: th-cam.com/play/PLho65cYn4nF0OkYhGvzy7bpkWzBcex8IL.html&si=ZeJW8tOnYCTIH-6h
Lot of People play very beautiful guitar solos and songs.. but non ever explained to a new comer, but you did. that means a lot when someone do really nice thing with a real intention. appreciate your work. thank you.
Hi Jared. I’m going for the inside/outside today. I’m 72 years old so it really is never too old to learn. I never thought of just playing the necessary strings rather than the whole chord. What a good day. Thank you so much.
Hello I'm 74 yrs old I've been playing on and off for a number of years, always with a flat pick. Now while fingerpicking is a challenge it is really nice way to express the music. Thank you for these 4 patterns to help get started. I figured out the pattern 1 and 2 now I have something else to challenge myself with. It does take time to teach the fingers to work independently but surprisingly in a week or 2 you can see the results. Thank you for a well explained lesson
I absolutely LOVE that you use an actual song as context for your lessons. This adds purpose toward a real goal, and not just plunking chords without direction. Subscribed.
I learned those picking patters when I was 14 and I can still play with them today, even after forty years of ignoring the guitar. However, now I practice two hrs every day and I’m so happy that those picking patterns made it into my long term muscle memory. Small victory in the war to become better player. Thanks!
Wow! I'm blown away by the quality and clarity of you instructions and teaching! At 67 years old, I thought I might try finger picking ONE LAST TIME. I stumbled on this video and I believe it was a total God send!!! I'm very excited to feel hopeful about expanding my guitar horizons again after decades of frustration leading nowhere. THANK YOU JARED!!!! PS I love Love's Gonna Live Here Again!
Watched this six months ago as a guitar 🎸 total beginning. Everyday I am improving the pinch pattern and I have again rewatched it hoping to work on every patterns in this video...Thank you very much for the video🙏 Learning from Uganda in East Africa.
AS a late starter (65!) and a retired elementary teacher, I appreciate a well laid out scope and sequence. Thanks for your brilliant breakdown. Just what I was looking for.
Travis picking was the first thing I learned when I started playing guitar. That said, I learned it using the thumb and three fingers, so I had to adjust my picking for some songs by leaving out the third finger. "4+20", for instance, is played with only the thumb and two fingers, while ""Guinevere" uses three fingers and thumb. This video is well done and explains it very well. Thanks.
@@TatsumiOga682 I was a rock & roll bass player who played some guitar to write songs. I played bass with my fingers 99% of the time, also hard to believe from guys who play bass with a pick like a guitarist. I didn't play folk music on guitar or bass.
Hello Jared… Doug from Denver, Colorado. I’ve been fingerpicking, but never had someone explain that you should use only the fingers that are necessary for the chord, so you don’t get in the way of your own melody notes. Thank you, this is a great lesson!
.I patterned my pic king after Elizabeth Cotton many years ago with Freight Train and Rsilroad Bill. I watchd her and kept trying until I got it. I found it worked for many songs. I still use it on my 60 yr old Martin. Good lesson One can always use instruction.
Cool thanks I've played for years but never really mastered picking patterns. You have a nice calming voice too for teaching and singing. Learnt pinching principle thanks.
just started using your Chords with Color chart and it's amazing. I have never seen this type of resource and it's going to have a HUGE impact on my playing. Thanks!!!
I enjoyed your lesson. I like the "Inside-Out" pattern. First lesson on TH-cam that I could actually sit through and not feel like I'm switching off. At the end of it I actually got it and know I will confidently practice them. You're really good and clear and bearable to watch. Some on TH-cam are just too much. Thank you. May God bless you.
Hello Jarred from Cairns in Tropical North Queensland Australia 🇦🇺. Many thanks for your helpful instruction. Much appreciated. I look forward to more of your videos.
Hey, Jared. I've been struggling for days to come up with a fingerpicking riff for a song I'm writing and this lesson was an epiphany. Thanks for helping me come back to the basics. I gotta keep telling myself: Keep it simple, stupid. This lesson really was a huge help. My new favorite--the 3rd, pinch pattern. I always love your videos. Don't know why I haven't subscribed, but I just did. Bless you, man!
Great lesson, Jared. I taught myself the basic pinch pattern back in 1965 from listening to PP&M records and developed the rest on my own over the years. I've been asked to teach my style but I never really broke things down, I just play, often using a mixture of all 4 patterns and more, with variations, within the same chord progression. Your lesson is a great starting place that I will pass on to friends who want to learn Travis Picking. A few years ago I tried to teach myself Skruggs style 5-string banjo. At first the rolls drove me nuts because they have a very different rhythmic feel and are kind of backwards from guitar (55+ years of muscle memory will do that to you). Although I never finished learning banjo, I incorporated aspects of banjo rolls into my Travis Picking to great effect.
Same story for me - just a couple years later than you started. I vividly remember sitting in the open door way of my cabin playing the pattern over and over until it became natural. I don't remember another thing about church camp that year. The PP&M song that hooked me on folk style acoustic guitar was the Ballad of Spring Hill on the LP A Song Will Rise. Bob Dylan's Free Wheelin' album was also a huge inspiration.
My introduction to finger picking was many years ago when a friend of mine showed me how to play "Black Bird" by the Beatles. I started with a 2 finger picking. From there i eventually added another finger. I now play with all my picking fingers. Thanks for the variations.
Very well done sir. Ive been playing since Johnson was president and you've explained Travis picking as well as it can be explained. Wonderful song to select for the example!
Jared, thanks for making this video. Your a great teacher. I've been playing guitar for 3 years and am still learning. This lesson will help give me more more to learn.
I like the idea and the way you teach reading music I want to your channel you’re a good teacher we need more people like you on TH-cam that are teachers and not showoffs I’ve been playing for many years since 1974 I’ve had my ups and downs with a guitar until I learn how to read music I am a finger style guitarist because I can’t sing so I play all the harmony and all the melody I guess my family thinks I’m a natural at it sometimes I don’t think so I still have troubles like every other guitarist music never ends always something new to learn thanks for your video you’re a beautiful teacher😁👍🏼😎🎸🎼🎶👍🏼
My ultimate goal has been to play Fingerstyle guitar and to understand what I was doing beyond just memorizing songs so that I might be able to play any song I like with an appropriate Fingerstyle motif. I like all four patterns you've demonstrated in this video, favor the 2nd & 3rd patterns (pattern 3 minus that 8th note ~ the bounce). Thank for this lesson & the printed materials 👍🏾👍🏼🎯🤝🏼.
Thanks David! Glad you found this helpful. I have a few more fingerpicking lessons coming up over the new couple months too. I hope they all help with your ultimate goal. Cheers, -Jared
Good stuff, man! I watch a lot of youtube, and I see a lot of guitar lessons, and I appreciate your approach. I really think the pinch pattern is the most versatile, although the descending arpeggio works well for gospel and hymns, which I play a fair amount of, as I play mainly at church. I like to use a combination of finger picking for intros, strumming for the main body of most of the contemporary worship songs that I play, and then sometimes a slower picking as a coda or outro to give the songs a more contemplative feel. I actually end up mostly playing a hybrid picking pattern, maintaining the root as the bass, outlining the chord with my other three fingers and incorporating elements of the melody. I'm always striving to get better, so I subscribed today. I see you've got a lot of great stuff! Oh, and thanks!
Great lesson. The pinch pattern goes best with the song. The descending arpeggio has more of a John Denver feel. Nice Tele solo. As a Bakersfield Sound freak, I really dug this.
Hi I'm 137 and just picked a guitar up for only the 2nd time in last 100 years so thought I'd try learning while I've still got time as I ain't getting much younger anytime soon. Thanks bud ps I used to play with Merle Travis daddy when I was 11 back in the delta, thanks again buddy.
After three days an hour a day of work, I' manage step 1,2,3 but still a lack of consistency, aspecially when I try to sing, but how great this lesson is ! It's also easier after a glass of beer ^^. It's the third time I try to get the travis picking style and it's the first time, with this approach (step one first, then step tow, then step three) that I'm starting to feel it. The other two lessons started with step 3. I found pattern 1 and 2 harder to switch between chords even if it's easier at first as there is no "wait", Pattern 3 it's so beautiful. If you come from The Fingerstyle improvisation video and you are intermediate or beginner player, I strongly recommand to master this lesson first before, starting the improvisation part. I think the thumb consistency with a certain mastery of the other finger variations is something we have to manage before thinking of improvising with this style. Thanks again.
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This was a WONDERFUL lesson!! ❤
I have been working on the pinch pattern now for months...but I know I'm doing it wrong. I have to change my technique...You're really the ONLY person on here that does such a fine job of showing! It could do with a little bit more zoom in though...and I really didn't understand what you meant re:.fingering the chord? Don't play the 3 fingered G, only 1 finger? And don't that with every chord? What about like the F 4-fingered Barre, or B or F#m barre?
Thanks sir
I don't see your videos 2 to 5 for classical guitars.
@@mikemahin They're all up, they are just spaced out. Here's a playlist of all of them together: th-cam.com/play/PLho65cYn4nF0OkYhGvzy7bpkWzBcex8IL.html&si=ZeJW8tOnYCTIH-6h
2:08 Inside - Outside 6-3-4-2
6:11 Outside - Inside 6-2-4-3
7:40 The Pinch 6+2-4-3-6-2-4
11:22 Descending Arepggio 6+2-3-4-2-6-3-4
Thanks 👍🏾
Thanks bro ❤
Helpful
Thank you!!
Thank you for the simplification.
Lot of People play very beautiful guitar solos and songs.. but non ever explained to a new comer, but you did. that means a lot when someone do really nice thing with a real intention. appreciate your work. thank you.
Hi Jared. I’m going for the inside/outside today. I’m 72 years old so it really is never too old to learn. I never thought of just playing the necessary strings rather than the whole chord. What a good day. Thank you so much.
I am 72 also. Just started playing for real.
Finally, somebody who shows you everything when teaching and goes slow! Thank you!
Hello I'm 74 yrs old I've been playing on and off for a number of years, always with a flat pick. Now while fingerpicking is a challenge it is really nice way to express the music. Thank you for these 4 patterns to help get started. I figured out the pattern 1 and 2 now I have something else to challenge myself with. It does take time to teach the fingers to work independently but surprisingly in a week or 2 you can see the results. Thank you for a well explained lesson
72 here and back on track
Hi I'm from USA and México, 67 years old learning guitar, love your lesson thank you.
hi dear
I absolutely LOVE that you use an actual song as context for your lessons.
This adds purpose toward a real goal, and not just plunking chords without direction. Subscribed.
Ich kenne diesen Song leider nicht.
Kannst du mir helfen.
I don't know the Song.
Can you help me?
A song is great for reference, but for an intermediate player these patterns can be applied to more advanced, improvised progressions.
I learned those picking patters when I was 14 and I can still play with them today, even after forty years of ignoring the guitar. However, now I practice two hrs every day and I’m so happy that those picking patterns made it into my long term muscle memory. Small victory in the war to become better player. Thanks!
Pattern 1-2:08; 2-6:13; 3-7:38; 4-11:23. 10:12 progression Thank you very much, Jared. Excellent teaching.
0:00 Introduction
2:08 Pattern 1
6:13 Pattern 2
7:38 Pattern 3
11:23 Pattern 4
Wow! I'm blown away by the quality and clarity of you instructions and teaching! At 67 years old, I thought I might try finger picking ONE LAST TIME. I stumbled on this video and I believe it was a total God send!!! I'm very excited to feel hopeful about expanding my guitar horizons again after decades of frustration leading nowhere. THANK YOU JARED!!!!
PS I love Love's Gonna Live Here Again!
Hi from the UK. I'm 58 and just picked up a guitar for the first time. Thanks for the inspiration
Watched this six months ago as a guitar 🎸 total beginning. Everyday I am improving the pinch pattern and I have again rewatched it hoping to work on every patterns in this video...Thank you very much for the video🙏 Learning from Uganda in East Africa.
AS a late starter (65!) and a retired elementary teacher, I appreciate a well laid out scope and sequence. Thanks for your brilliant breakdown. Just what I was looking for.
I am a late starter too. Better lat than never!
Thank you so much! 🙏🏻you are the best teacher in the world ❤
Thank you! 😃
Thanks
Thank you so much! 🙏
Travis picking was the first thing I learned when I started playing guitar. That said, I learned it using the thumb and three fingers, so I had to adjust my picking for some songs by leaving out the third finger. "4+20", for instance, is played with only the thumb and two fingers, while ""Guinevere" uses three fingers and thumb. This video is well done and explains it very well. Thanks.
Thanks!
Thanks so much, Eric! That's very generous of you to leave the tip :) Much appreciated 🙏 Cheers, -Jared
I've played for decades, but never finger picking. This video just popped up. It's time!! Thanks.
You've played for decades but never learned fingerpicking? So you always used a pick? Hard to believe
@@TatsumiOga682 I was a rock & roll bass player who played some guitar to write songs. I played bass with my fingers 99% of the time, also hard to believe from guys who play bass with a pick like a guitarist. I didn't play folk music on guitar or bass.
I've been trying to master these patterns forever. True understanding come from your head. This video finally cracks my thick scull.
My friend Jack, taught me one of the three, back in 1971. To say we mis-used that pattern would be an understatement. Thanks!
Excellent intro to Travis picking and perfect demo of applying it!
Hello Jared… Doug from Denver, Colorado. I’ve been fingerpicking, but never had someone explain that you should use only the fingers that are necessary for the chord, so you don’t get in the way of your own melody notes. Thank you, this is a great lesson!
Another wonderful lesson. Simple, doesn't attempt too much in one session, short enough that we can view it over and over.
Glad you liked it, thanks so much! ::
.I patterned my pic king after Elizabeth Cotton many years ago with Freight Train and Rsilroad Bill. I watchd her and kept trying until I got it. I found it worked for many songs. I still use it on my 60 yr old Martin. Good lesson
One can always use instruction.
Cool thanks I've played for years but never really mastered picking patterns. You have a nice calming voice too for teaching and singing. Learnt pinching principle thanks.
Great and great teacher! inspiring! .. very difficult for me to play cos I play upside-down
I must watch all of these instructional videos. His diction is so clear and explanations are easy to understand. Bravo!
just started using your Chords with Color chart and it's amazing. I have never seen this type of resource and it's going to have a HUGE impact on my playing. Thanks!!!
I enjoyed your lesson. I like the "Inside-Out" pattern. First lesson on TH-cam that I could actually sit through and not feel like I'm switching off. At the end of it I actually got it and know I will confidently practice them. You're really good and clear and bearable to watch. Some on TH-cam are just too much. Thank you. May God bless you.
Very helpful, thanks!
Very clear, concise, and musical. Excellent lesson thank you!
John Lennon uses a Travis picking pinch pattern on "Julia", "Dear Prudence," "Happiness is a Warm Gun" and "Octopus's Garden".
Descending arpeggio was my favourite, but I love them all. I knew basic Travis picking and will add all of this now. Thank you.
Hello Jarred from Cairns in Tropical North Queensland Australia 🇦🇺. Many thanks for your helpful instruction. Much appreciated. I look forward to more of your videos.
Thanks Jared - Been wanting to get into this for ages. Your lesson has helped me break the ice. Here I go.
Hey, Jared. I've been struggling for days to come up with a fingerpicking riff for a song I'm writing and this lesson was an epiphany. Thanks for helping me come back to the basics. I gotta keep telling myself: Keep it simple, stupid. This lesson really was a huge help. My new favorite--the 3rd, pinch pattern. I always love your videos. Don't know why I haven't subscribed, but I just did. Bless you, man!
This was an excellent explanation of the 4 patterns....outside-inside & arpeggio were my favorite. Thank you so much!!
I tried learning fingerstyle to no avail, but your video gave me a break through. You really broke it down and made it easy. Thanks so much.
Great lesson, Jared. I taught myself the basic pinch pattern back in 1965 from listening to PP&M records and developed the rest on my own over the years. I've been asked to teach my style but I never really broke things down, I just play, often using a mixture of all 4 patterns and more, with variations, within the same chord progression. Your lesson is a great starting place that I will pass on to friends who want to learn Travis Picking.
A few years ago I tried to teach myself Skruggs style 5-string banjo. At first the rolls drove me nuts because they have a very different rhythmic feel and are kind of backwards from guitar (55+ years of muscle memory will do that to you). Although I never finished learning banjo, I incorporated aspects of banjo rolls into my Travis Picking to great effect.
Same story for me - just a couple years later than you started. I vividly remember sitting in the open door way of my cabin playing the pattern over and over until it became natural. I don't remember another thing about church camp that year. The PP&M song that hooked me on folk style acoustic guitar was the Ballad of Spring Hill on the LP A Song Will Rise. Bob Dylan's Free Wheelin' album was also a huge inspiration.
Super tutorial really I appreciate and like your lesson.
Glad you liked it!
My introduction to finger picking was many years ago when a friend of mine showed me how to play "Black Bird" by the Beatles. I started with a 2 finger picking. From there i eventually added another finger. I now play with all my picking fingers. Thanks for the variations.
one of the better travis pciking vids around
Very well done sir. Ive been playing since Johnson was president and you've explained Travis picking as well as it can be explained. Wonderful song to select for the example!
I'm going to learn all 4 patterns, thank you for posting !!
I love Travis picking! It makes me feel peaceful!!
Hi Jared - Eddie in the UK here ! Thanks for a truly great and really helpful video lesson. Keep 'em coming please !
Fantastic teacher here... beautiful video... thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for this wonderful teaching😊 much love
Thank you Jared finally somebody shows me exactly how to do fingerstyle picking yay appreciate you
Excellent Lesson
Hellow, am from Papua New Guinea. I love finger picking on the guitar even though they laugh at me. I love your style of teaching the guitar playing.
Jared, thanks for making this video. Your a great teacher. I've been playing guitar for 3 years and am still learning. This lesson will help give me more more to learn.
Fabulous teaching. Great helps. Best on TH-cam. Learned much. Doable. Inspirational.....Mucho Gracias
Another great lesson Jared, thanks
You're welcome, thank YOU :)
Terrific lesson - thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Excellent teaching! Thanks for the introduction to Travis style.
I had a 1966 000-18.... until I got into Bluegrass... then it was a D 18... this is a really good demonstration!🎵🎶🎵
Awesome, thanks Stephen! :)
This video lifted me up and I am practicing with my guitar now . Great start to my day. Thanks for the video remain blessed bro
Straight forward. Makes it simple!! Subscribed.
I always heard Travis picking. Never knew how do it. Thank you.
supper explanation of finger picks .thanks very much
God bless you
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching!
Finely!!, ive been looking for so long for someone who explains what youve actualy got to be doing, thanks sooo much!
Just some absolutely beautiful soft picking. What a great instrument
I like the idea and the way you teach reading music I want to your channel you’re a good teacher we need more people like you on TH-cam that are teachers and not showoffs I’ve been playing for many years since 1974 I’ve had my ups and downs with a guitar until I learn how to read music I am a finger style guitarist because I can’t sing so I play all the harmony and all the melody I guess my family thinks I’m a natural at it sometimes I don’t think so I still have troubles like every other guitarist music never ends always something new to learn thanks for your video you’re a beautiful teacher😁👍🏼😎🎸🎼🎶👍🏼
You're the absolute best teacher...It makes such a difference providing the tab and keeping it simple. I really do appreciate it!
I'm hooked..excellent lesson..thank you.
Glad you liked it, thanks Keith! :)
My ultimate goal has been to play Fingerstyle guitar and to understand what I was doing beyond just memorizing songs so that I might be able to play any song I like with an appropriate Fingerstyle motif. I like all four patterns you've demonstrated in this video, favor the 2nd & 3rd patterns (pattern 3 minus that 8th note ~ the bounce). Thank for this lesson & the printed materials 👍🏾👍🏼🎯🤝🏼.
Thanks David! Glad you found this helpful. I have a few more fingerpicking lessons coming up over the new couple months too. I hope they all help with your ultimate goal. Cheers, -Jared
@@soundguitar Sir, did u use acoustic or classical guitar?
Your are a great teacher sir, love your chord chart they're beautifully arranged at one place 🔥🔥✨💕
I found this much easier to learn the way u teach ..thank you so much sir .God bless and Happy valentine
Good stuff, man! I watch a lot of youtube, and I see a lot of guitar lessons, and I appreciate your approach. I really think the pinch pattern is the most versatile, although the descending arpeggio works well for gospel and hymns, which I play a fair amount of, as I play mainly at church. I like to use a combination of finger picking for intros, strumming for the main body of most of the contemporary worship songs that I play, and then sometimes a slower picking as a coda or outro to give the songs a more contemplative feel. I actually end up mostly playing a hybrid picking pattern, maintaining the root as the bass, outlining the chord with my other three fingers and incorporating elements of the melody. I'm always striving to get better, so I subscribed today. I see you've got a lot of great stuff! Oh, and thanks!
Great lesson, congrats bro..great dynamics and teaching!
Amazing stuff buddy. Really good lesson. Can´t wait to get it in my repertoire,. Thanks for this great lesson and such a nice solo you put on top. 🙂
really love ur voice, i could listen to it forever.
Great lessons!!!! You teach fingerstyle guitar very well!!! Cheers!!!!🎉🎉🎉
Rock on!
Thanks for your great amount of help we all appreciate it 👍
Happy to help, thanks for watching! :)
Great lesson. The pinch pattern goes best with the song. The descending arpeggio has more of a John Denver feel. Nice Tele solo. As a Bakersfield Sound freak, I really dug this.
Super easy ....simple explanation 😊
BTW, my favorite was the descending arpeggio pattern… But will definitely practice all 4! Thanks again, Doug from Denver. Just subscribed.
I must learn them all so starting with the first pattern. Thank you, Jared.
Hi I'm 137 and just picked a guitar up for only the 2nd time in last 100 years so thought I'd try learning while I've still got time as I ain't getting much younger anytime soon. Thanks bud ps I used to play with Merle Travis daddy when I was 11 back in the delta, thanks again buddy.
So grateful for you Maestro🙏🙌
I'm grateful for YOU :)
Thank so much you are gifted. I will practice this.
Superb video. Thanks, Jared, from England!
Thanks. Working on developing my finger picking patterns and your video was just what I needed. Working on inside outside first.
Thanks Jared. Just starting to get into finger picking.... your approach is very inviting. God Bless!
I just want to thank you for this great tutorial. Wow, well done. Thank you, once again
Your voice is so soothing
aw thanks! :)
Thanx a lot for this great lesson and the Chords - very helpfull!
Excellent lesson, I thank you very much
I'm new so I love them all love you brother you are a great teacher thanks
Beautiful video and super well described and examples, can’t wait to give it a go!
Thanks, Stuart! I hope you enjoy given them a try :) Cheers -Jared
Thanks for the color guide, from the PH.
Fantastic. Can't wait to get started...
Theee and four both sound great. I’ll learn ‘‘em both.
Great choice! :)
Excellent teaching...thanks for posting
Excellent, cheers from Canada....will try....very difficult to learn after using a Pick for the last 30 years or so....
Great little lesson
Thanks! :)
I’m going to take them on one by one. I would say my favorite was the pinch pattern. Thanks for the lesson!
Thanks, Tim! The pinch is my fave as well. Cheers, -Jared
After three days an hour a day of work, I' manage step 1,2,3 but still a lack of consistency, aspecially when I try to sing, but how great this lesson is !
It's also easier after a glass of beer ^^.
It's the third time I try to get the travis picking style and it's the first time, with this approach (step one first, then step tow, then step three) that I'm starting to feel it. The other two lessons started with step 3.
I found pattern 1 and 2 harder to switch between chords even if it's easier at first as there is no "wait", Pattern 3 it's so beautiful.
If you come from The Fingerstyle improvisation video and you are intermediate or beginner player, I strongly recommand to master this lesson first before, starting the improvisation part.
I think the thumb consistency with a certain mastery of the other finger variations is something we have to manage before thinking of improvising with this style.
Thanks again.