The LEGENDARY picking pattern - 'Travis Picking'
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- ▶TABS AVAILABLE ON MY PATREON PAGE◀ In this video we turn 3 simple chords into something amazing by using the 'Travis Picking' pattern. A common finger picking pattern and quite easy to play!
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Lol. He’s so seamless at it. He should make a sleeping video because he’s so relaxed at it. Lol
What's the tune called on your course? I have subscribed to the course and would like to find the right lesson. Thanks
My goal one day to learn how to play this great guitar picking technique! Greetings from Hollywood, California!
Man so beautiful. I wish I could do this, but Icant even get the base properly...😢 Ill work hard but Im probably months if not years away of these 7 min.. !
The Bob Ross of guitar.
I'm happy.
@@wildbob Too little music?
@@wildbob what the what, man? The guy clearly loves talking about music. How can you feel any animosity towards him? It's so chill.
It's harder to talk while playing music so you have to take it as it is. A different medium. I don't feel lectured to at all. I think that's with you.
"Now let's just add a happy little open B."
I had just typed the same comment and scrolled down to see if someone already said it 🙂
Roozel yep. Was going to say the same thing. Difficult to fault Paul Davids (or Bob Ross for that matter)
The most amazing thing is that he never missed a beat, a verbal lesson, or explanation. Freakin’ legendary.
@@ananth218Canada send us a video of the incredible lesson you did while playing I'm teaching the song
Indeed, reminded me of watching Guy Pratt acting out stories while his hands, almost by themselves, keep the grove going on his bass. (No good clips of that on here, go see him live ;)
It’s called video editing think it was one whole take lulz
It's called video edition. Welcome to the civilization.
not that paul isn't a great player, or that i could do this as well as he did, but its really not THAT hard. singing/talking while playing is a skill anyone can pick up with practice. it's a great little composition though.
While mesmerized by his guitar skills, did anyone notice how smoothly and fluidly this was all done in a |> single take
Not to mention English is not his first language
As a complete beginner to finger style, I worked at this for months, but I finally can do it. It is such a lovely little tune.
Wtf you can do this after a month of practise? That's amazing man
@@Humiliated1234 no, not one month. Months!
Jesus how hard is this picking style.
@@medicusofthedamned
Not sure how to take your comment. Are you implying that this is super easy and therefore should not take months to learn? Or are you commenting about how hard it is?
@@lindsayheywood7195 dude that's even more awesome that you dedicated months of your time to learn this that's very admirable
That reminded me of my first day of calculus. I was following along and feeling confident until we got to the second page. Then I changed majors. Or in this case, decided to switch from guitar to the kazoo.
Tom Gray 😂😂
!!! so true!!! Well said.
That was laugh-out-loud funny. Thanks.
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Food for soul: You have been incredibly helpful on my guitar journey. I wish you (and all the guitar geeks reading this) a great 2020.
Thanks, you too!
Henning Bo, thanks for the nice words, Happy New Year!
So I’m 15 and I’ve just been messing around with the guitar for 2 years. I’ve never really actually practiced. So this year I’m gonna try and have a consistent practice routine. This year I really wanna get into this whole thing. Wish me luck
@@nick3718 Good luck! Do it. You'll never regret it! Playing the guitar feels awesome!
n i c k oh man--- enjoy.
This guy should record announcements for airlines to use in emergencies. I would be totally cool with plunging earthward at 700 kph if Paul were playing his guitar and explaining the brace position.
HAHA this was too good🤣
I burst out laughing, noice
😂
I want a Paul Davids voice on my GPS
@@jpconques Bad idea. You will never get anywhere because you just keep changing destinations and driving forever as Paul says, "Take the next left. Sweet. Now straight for ten kilometers. Lovely. Beautiful driving. "
Young man, you are so very skilled. You couple that skill with a calm, friendly, and fun manner. I can watch and listen to you for hours on end, and I do. I may or may not ever approach your musical skills (no, lol), but I can’t thank you enough for your teaching, and for the pure happiness you bring to me.
CHIEFS!!!!
@@gus4442 HOW 'BOUT 'EM?!?!!!!
I walked in on my guitar watching this. Don't think she even knew I was in the room...
Ha ha that’s made me laugh!1
Lol too good
Also made me laugh 😂
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Did you talk to her about how that’s her business, and it’s it’s perfectly natural for a guitar her age
Could you do a one hour version just playing some chords and talking about stuff, please? It's so relaxing to just hear your calm voice and this pattern.
maxim_e Asmr Paul
This is exactly why I chose Paul Davids guitar course out of the hundreds available. Worth every penny.
This travis picking tutorial was a song in itself.
Mate seriously, you started playing guitar and I thought that was cool, then you started talking over top of it and then added some more and then speeded up and then added some more stuff and sounded amazing without skipping a single beat and I thought fair play. Then I realised you weren’t even speaking your native language and at that point without beating myself up or continuing to think about it I felt like a shit version of a human - great lesson tho thanks
This.
Chris O'Hare I’m high and I second this 🤘
Chris O'Hare mood
It’s just time Chris, not magic ! I’m sure you are a fine human 👍
I suppose it's easier for some and harder for others, but for most of us it's an ability that comes only with attentive practice that develops satisfying muscle memory. It would take detailed sonic analysis to prove it, but I'm sure Paul's speech is coordinated with his picking rhythm. There's a magical thing that happens -- eventually -- in which musical muscle memory lets you put a repetitive picking pattern, even one with some complexity, on auto-pilot and then put foreground attention on melody notes, embellishments, and phrasing. But making music is a lot of fun even long before that point is reached.
That's the closest I've ever been to being hypnotised
Same
I know.
Was thinking this is almost hypnotic then saw your comment
This is why I love youtube comments. :p
Same
I learned Travis picking about a month ago, I learned it to eventually learn this exactly, but I now have an unreal account of respect. Just adding an accompanying Melody breaks my brain, here's to the next 30+ hours of practice!
To be able to sit and have this conversation with all of his students while putting this lesson together is legend. What a great guy.
First notes: Yeah, that sounds interesting! I should practice that!
3 minutes in: Wtf is this magic??
Actually, it's sorcery. 😄
@@TheNinnyfee Lol Nini Na 🤣🤣🤣
take it slow and practice just changing chords at first, then learn "Freight Train".
Yes not exactly a cake walk!
Mimimi
The best 7 minute guitar lesson I've ever seen.
Jeff Smith if this was 7 minutes longer I could fall asleep to it
It gets even better if you play along as far as you can. Feels great, like you are jamming together. 😊
Ditto.
nOPE nope nope
Steve Stine makes this guy look like a chump, look him up. I like Paul but he doesn’t really teach you shit.
I’m a novice, self teaching, fell in love with you’re version of Travis Picking, taken a few weeks ar 30mins a day on & off but started to get it now 👍thanks Paul
Just wow! I'm about 2 years into my guitar journey and just starting to explore Travis picking. This is inspiring. Thank you.
Same. Mind blown. Paul is amazing.
Can we all appreciate how difficult this must have been to play, narrate and get this in one take. Genius.
Not only that. Don't you hear a rythm in the phrasing that fits with the tempo of the music?
Waiting for the outtakes reel. 14 hours of discarded footage =D
@@alainrobillard4300 in order to talk while playing, don't you have to talk to the rhythm?
@@hiimjosh868
Possibly.
So, part of the genius would be an automatism...
"Alice's Restaurant" is not the name of the restaurant,
That's just the name of the song
That's why I call the song "Alice's Restaurant."
Could he please stop intimidating me by talking and playing at the same time without missing a beat and keeping both playing and speaking sounding totally natural? Thanks.
Watch Claus Levin talking while shredding insane stuff if you wanna cry.
.. and in a foreign language as well.. 👍
@@Lamz.. That's true, although to most of us native Dutch speakers, that's not the impressive part. Cheers!
Amber57499 Or Bernard Purdie during a drum lesson. 👌🏼
@@knotwilg3596 I'd like to see you do it! 😉
I never thought I would be able to do this (I am left handed and play right handed) but this method of breaking it down really works for me! (I did have to slow a few parts down on the video). This has been very rewarding to learn. Once I am fully up to speed with it I am going to buy the courses. I feel that Paul Davids has the best method of teaching for me to learn from.
This is how life should be, some of us are just meant to do certain things, Paul’s teaching abilities are underrated…if only people could teach their crafts in the way you do, we would live in such a better world.
4:09: “Wow, this is so good! But we have to go on...” I love this guy.
His genuine appreciation of the very music he makes is very motivating. He also made me realize I couldn't really play anything I thought I could. Such clean technique
I am speechless. What a lesson and what a beautiful arrangement and my God how well did he run the lesson while staying on beat as well as talking in tune. What a guy...
He’s a professional guitarist, so....
@@bansheeofinisheerin and he is Dutch
He doesn't miss one note or stutter one time and English isn't his first language. He is so calm and methodical. Even if I didn't play guitar, I would find this video remarkable.
Even if it’s just perfectly edited, he is talented to make it sound this smooth either way haha.
I smiled the whole way thorough this "song". But besides being a nice listen it is also the best explanation of Travis picking on YT.
your passion is obvious and infectious
possibly the greatest tutorial I ever watched and I have been playing guitar for 30 years and I can't stop watching this over and over again so magical! Thank you!
Who the hell could dislike this???
Love the way you share your pasion!
Dislikes come from deaf people.
Pere Joan Mateu Salvà exactly my thoughts?!
I always see comments like this but you gotta realize it's only like 0.3% dislikes out of all the likes. That's such a ridiculous small percentage of dislikes, I mean how many times have you accidentally hit the thumbs down instead of the thumbs up? I know I've done it a few times. They're very very close together. 0.3% - that's nothing, it's just the error margin.
Unrealized miss hit of the 'like' button?!
Wile CKoyote I think these are people who think they can play it better and that they don’t need to teach it. But probably they have done very few things in their sad lives. Regarding us, let’s practice, let’s do things, let’s read and let’s learn.
Probably the most well-crafted 'Guitar Lesson' video I've ever seen (I've seen a great many).
Noodle thanks Noodle!
Noodle
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Church...
This has become by far my favorite style, so thank you Paul for covering it!
Look up "Comer Moon Mullins". He was inducted into the Thumbpicking Hall of Fame in 2013 and was an award winning Travis style picker.
Forgive me. for bragging on my Dad, but I'm still very proud of him and want to share his gift with everyone.
Thanks for this lead. I would be proud too! Your Dad is an amazing Travis picker!
I don’t comment on TH-cam videos, but few people will understand how incredible what he did in this video was.
And how in the world did 695 people decide not to like it this video 🤷♂️🤦
@@cjsutterer4804 because they tried to do this, failed, and got mad and sad lmao
Damn right
Yeah, the picking alone isn't too hard, but doing a demonstration with narration is darn impressive. That's legit muscle memory.
I just found this when trying to sort out Travis picking and I could not agree more.
I’m pretty sure this guy is so competent and smooth that he might not even realize he is playing the guitar in this video. I’ve never seen someone so effortlessly slow down AND speed up what he was playing while explaining to show a point. Absolutely impressed.
Every time I watch this, I'm amazed by the ease and facility with which Paul plays and carries on a casual monologue as if he's just chatting. I admire (and envy) such talent and ability. Love this lesson.
The reason I continue learning guitar is because I am truly inspired by your playing and you teach it in the most simplest way. You are truly a blessing to us all who are on the learning path.
Casually chatting while playing - in time - and teaching... in what seems like one take. Fair play for making it look so effortless mate that's very impressive!
"Or we could add the slap of course."
*D a v i e 5 0 4 i n t e n s i f i e s*
Clay Old EPICO
O M G
Slap LIKE now! ;)
Clay Old
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Indeed he needs to slap more on this 6 string bass!
I love how you teach. I just started learning how to fingerpick. Your channel feels like “ home”. Thanks for all you do.
Awesome lesson. I've strived to teach myself to play finger-picking guitar for over 40 years. I arrived at my own style. But my finger picking often stumbles -- trips over itself. If I had known 40 years ago that there was a pattern that maintained a continuous root/fifth foundation it would have made much more sense. The "trick" seems to be that the thumb is on "auto pilot" on the 1-2-3-4 and the other picking fingers voice melody and harmony notes on the upper strings on the quarter, half, and triplet beats. Establishing a thumb "metronome" is crucial. Geat lesson, mate. Thanks! (Having said that, there's much to be said about developing ones own style. That's what makes players unique.)
that autopilot trick is so right it’s cool to think about it that way thank you. do you have any tips or advice from over the years? i’m learning finger picking now and i’m really intrigued
George, I've been playing for a little over 45 years and I have off and on chased the Travis Style. I to play fingerstyle but I too stumble. The single hardest thing I've experienced in my playing is to develop a "steady thumb" as many refer to it. Close to retirement years, I am trying to buckle down and learn several styles.
It's similar to playing piano in that respect, where you have the left hand often playing a regular pattern as an anchor while the left is playing a counter or something more freeform over it. In this case you are using one hand as two, with the thumb being your "left hand". I guess because the melodic elements are the more noticeable there is a mental tendency to play them as the "lead" but that is backasswards, as they say, because the thumb notes are being seen as secondary. With Travis picking I've always found it easier to focus on the rhythm of the piece rather than than learn a melody and then impose the rhythm on it.
Been playing guitar for almost 40 years now but never succeeded in keeping the thumb going.... But thanks to Paul I'm getting almost there
Anyone remembers “Bob Ross: The Joy of painting”? I have no clue why he reminds me of that guy. He took his style and ported it into the modern 2020, just instead of a brush he uses a guitar. Awesome! Your beards are pretty comparable. Now you have to start and work on your haircut. Bob Ross owns you there.
One of my first thoughts was this guy's the Bob "Happy Trees" Ross of the guitar
He’s on Netflix. Watched Bob the other day knowing I’d never be able to paint but it’s nice to hope.
“There’s no such things as mistakes - just happy accidents”.
That you narrated the whole thing while playing each part really amazes me.
Matt F talking and playing is the hardest part
Paul . . . just more of the usual-you know: presentational perfection. Clear, engaging, and,as always, laced with your infectious good cheer.
Thank you!
Its one thing to be singing a Song along with the fingerpicking, but having a completely unrelated CONVERSATION while maintaining the picking without even one tiny glitch is beyond another. ! whoa. Amazing & quite beautiful. Thank you!
Paul. I've been playing my whole life. Many different styles. Acoustic and electric. Most people think I'm pretty good. Lots of gigs under my belt. I preface it that way because (a) I learn stuff every time I watch one of your videos - useful stuff - and (b) I bask in the warm glow of your guitar joy even on the coldest of winter nights.
TheZipeedoo by candle light of course
Gay
Let me grab your bottle of lotion for you
You are the Bob Ross of guitar instruction. I love the way you so calmly and simply build this beautiful melody. I could listen to you all day and can't wait to learn this. Thank you!!
You hit that right on the head. I always enjoy Paul's videos and his approach to teaching. Yes, he keeps you relaxed.
Aieeee... Paul leaves that little tricky ending/turn for the student and you think - no big deal, right? But then there's something in the rhythm that you have to master to make it flow perfectly. You have to dig deeper and learn even more, but when you have it - ah so worth it.
Your awesome video kept me busy for nearly one month. Thank you, Paul
The lesson was a song within itself
I don't think that's spicy enough for the Don though
Don Flamenco
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Is it just me or is it kinda disappointing that he doesn’t live in a cabin in the middle of a forest
Yep and a Viking Hat hanging on the wall!
That made me laugh
I cannot express how much I have learnt from this video.
You have such an infectious cheerfulness - wonderful 🙂
Me with no instrument whatsoever: subscribes and turns on notifications
You’re not alone ... I’ve done same. I plan on buying a guitar now, a guitar he also has reviewed.
@@veronicareyes010386 hey did you buy your guitar? Hows your learning journey going?
@@gamethuat Another way is to study guitars available on eBay. You can learn a lot that way.
Travis picking is one of those techniques that can be really hard to grapple but once you get it down you start doing it naturally to the point where you can just play through chords and add notes that you think sound good as you go. Definitely my favourite fingerpicking style!
REPETITION CREATES RETENTION....
What a fantastic lession. I've played this, and practices with, many times.
You make it look so easy!
I'm convinced the whole Travis picking/fingerstyle thing is a significant stepping stone to fluidity... Just need to practice practice practice.
Nice concise tutorial, thank you.
"I say hey, what's going on?"
Hay-ee-yay-ee-yeah-eh-eh...
Haha!! I was singing that too while Paul was playing :)
Yeah, I'm singing it too :P
4 non blondes. Yes!
Or “dust in the wind” by Kansas
MADE ME HAPPY , HE EXPLAINED THE STEPS SO WELL WITHOUT DRAGGING IT ON AND BEATING ME TO DEATH WITH REDUNDANCY, PLEASANT CALM VOICE ALONG WITH SKILL AND CONFIDENCE, I SUBSCRIBED, I THINK I CAN LEARN TO TRAVIS PICK YEAH !! THANK YOU
Check out Mississippi John Hurt for inspiration. Good for you !
Agreed. But I think you forgot to turn the 'CAPS LOCK' off.😅✌️
Just out of curiosity did you learn it?
I'm definitely going to start building this into my practice routine.
@@kshitizpanday7669 that's just how elders type
Wow! Paul I have been trying to establish thumb independence for a couple of years. You are the first person to just say "just start using the thumb only". Thank you so much for this video.
Paul, you're an amazing player and instructor! Thanks for all you do!
The guitar playing sounds exceptional, but that voice is mesmeric.
I watch him for therapeutic reasons, too.
sweet!
I want to play that if it takes me years. I hope it doesn't, I'm seventy now.
Good luck mate
Hope you will make it
Hello Terry,
I’m 59. It took me a month. Can’t get the slap bit at the end. Just repetition TIL you get the muscle memory in your fingers. Start one chord at a time and get the picking pattern. In fact just as he teaches it starting with the thumb alternating the bass notes. Best of luck, you’ll get there 😊 Oh...and for the G chord just your ring finger 6th string 3rd fret ‘G’ only one finger needed and it helps the transition to the next chord
Darn, I'll be 76 in two months - I'd better hurry up and practice, as soon as I remember where I left my guitar...
I wish to be like y’all when I’m older
Cosmic Nova
You’ll probably have some aches and pains ...
Amazing job, Paul! This is a great lesson, played with sweetness and gentleness. What a beautiful arrangement! Your style is really elegant.
I am so thrilled you explained this... and so clearly. I have been wanting to learn this pattern and never found anyone who could explain it so I understood what each finger was doing. I love your channel. You have brought my love of guitar back to life.
It feels like someone has finally demystified that specific pattern that I kept hearing, but couldn't quite put my finger on it. Sounds brilliant with so many progressions. Thank you!
Are you familiar with Tommy Emmanuel? He's definitely the travis picking master. Also probably one of the most incredible guitarists I've ever seen in general.
Another great Travis picking pattern is the one that Paul Simon (and many others) used a lot. Listen to Homeward bound and Kathy’s song.
@@bartvschuylenburg yep
Been playing on and off for 30 yrs, with a lesson here and there. I learned more in this 7 minutes, can't thank you enough Paul.
I'm trying to learn to play it. But I lost it after around 4 min. Could you please help me understand? Pleaseeeee
You truly have the most beautiful guitar lessons out of anyone on I’ve seen yet on TH-cam. There’s just something different about you; my boyfriend and I both agree your incredible and really enjoy your lessons! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and kindness with the world!
The fact that you can play that smoothly, in perfect timing adding in other notes and teaching without losing concentration is unreal. Great lesson!
I've been playing guitar since I was 11, and I'm now 22. I'm self taught. I taught myself to finger pick from the early parts of my learning. About 3 years ago I started to vet burnt out on the guitar, so I decided to learn the piano for a few months. After a while, I realized that I really loved my guitar and that I wasn't going to give up on it. So, I picked up the guitar again and started playing every day for at least an hour. It wasn't till about a few months ago that I started learning to how to Travis pick. I saw Chet Atkins do it, and Tommy Emmanuel, which then led me to Merle Travis. I started to incorporate this style of picking, and a lot of country blues into my playing and I have become better than I've ever been. I still have so much to learn, but I've definitely reached new highs in my guitar playing. I'd encourage any serious guitar player to learn Travis Pickin' it brings a whole new meaning to playing guitar.
Thank you dear.
I like how he built the song as he went along, steadily adding to the pattern. Good job. Thanks
It's one thing to play this style, but I am in awe in his ability to verbally provide instruction at the same time. Lots...Lots...Lots....Lots of practice to make it look effortless.
This was an INCREDIBLE lesson and much appreciated! For someone who is just starting to learn fingerpicking style, you broke this down at a perfect speed. Thanks Paul!
The fact that he made this in at most one or two takes without stumbling over his words or missing a note or beat is unbelievably impressive.
Hoe the heck is he able to play those things and talk the same time?
I freakin have problems talking and walking the same time...
Yeah. And if my whife askes me wile i am playing guitar : honney, do you like a cup of thee ? And i answer : yes dear ! I already forget where i was in the song and what chord i have to play next 😆😂 . Silly me.
Greatings from the Netherlands
Merle Travis sang while Travis Picking. Thousands of guitarists play more intricate stuff than that while singing. They're musicians. That's what they do.
Listen to Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie...he ain't proud!
In the end it’s just muscle memory.
@@angeledoray8967 True, but you have to climb the mountain to see it all, pace by pace, I,m at the foot of the hill right now, cheers
Paul Davids is easily becoming one of my favorite guitarists. I love his energy.
Your lessons are a bless to watch. A mix of making everything looks simple and a therapy, of how beautiful you make everything sound like! Congrats!
Travis Picking is my blood being a Texan and having country music in my roots, so I must salute you for this lesson
I love when you breakdown and teach a style this way. The other times you’ve done it are also my favorite videos. Thanks for the best content out there.
I am moverd to tears. Watched this 10 times in a row -- and it is just beautiful. I hope, someday, I will get to this point! You are amazing!
Paul Davids is the best all around guitar player in the world and ever was in the world. Totally awesome
Pretty sure he started to succumb to his own hypnosis around 5:00 only to snap out of it 20 seconds later. We almost lost him, folks.
Haha I clocked that "😲😃sweet!"
You have just given tens of lessons in only one lesson. All i can say is: you are in a very high level in terms of explanation. If someone start trainnig what you have explained, this person will not believe the level that is gonna reach much faster than could never imagine. Thank very much for your class. Greatings from Brasil - Marcelo Castro
The best teachers say the least
Paul, you deserve every one of those 2,000,000 subscribers. You always put out genuinely high quality content. Thank you!
I this this is the best video I've come across for finger picking thus far, and is EXACTLY what I've been searching for, without realising exactly what I've been searching for! Besides the fact this gentleman has a voice and teaching style like pure honey. I subscribed straight away 👍
Paul, I must tell you this playing you did here, these chords, the style, moves me to tears, really...I get choked up everytime I watch the last few minutes, because it's the reason I started playing 40 years ago. To hear the beauty of the instrument, instrumental, acoustic, doing it's thing. It's beautiful. This arrangement is gorgeous. It's emotional to me, raw emotional joy, to hear this and though I do play some fingerpicking, I must learn this. Thanks for your hard work on all your videos......
I'm a "older" newbie, getting my first guitar for my 40th birthday a few months ago. I have been enjoying the heck out of your content as a way to keep me inspired and pushing on while the comfort level and skills slowly build. Another comment called you a "Bob Ross of guitar", and I think that is very fitting. Thank you for being a regular source of Zen, Mr. Davids.
Your still a baby, older is 70+ nowadays.
Paul! Your pedagogical ability is exceptional.
Your tutorial is magical ! I am now closed to play it properly. Step by step, slowly so this at first sight difficult stuff becomes natural. I am a decent singer but poor guitarist and I want to make my songs nicer. And your channel is PERFECT for me. Thank you very much for your skills, elegance and style.
Hi Paul - Ive been playing about 40 years, and heard Travis a ton of times, but you made me feel like I was learning something Id never heard before. The combination of skill, humour, and genuine enthusiasm for music that you put across is such a gift. Love this lesson and happy to have "met" you. Thank you so much for your videos.
I love this.. Been practicing for hours... Can't wait to try it on an actual guitar!
Wait, what are you practicing on?
Lately I've been looking at my kids attending the music school and realizing how happy they are to be doing this. Watching your videos I got back to learning more new things about music myself. Paul, let me thank you for all of your content, making difference and bringing value to so many guitar players.
I started fingerpicking the day after I heard Mississippi John Hurt play Payday.
I started with the thumb, just alternating strings, 6-5, 6-4, 5-4. You won't go any lower than 4. I used a metronome and kept at it until it was comfortable. I doesn't take too long as your thumb just goes on autopilot.
Then I started with the pinch. Hit the two E strings at once, your thumb is going down while your 3rd or 4th finger is coming up on the high E. 1st beat is the pinch then the next 3 beats are just thumb. Then do the pinch on the 1st and 3rd beats. If you look you can find charts of the different patterns to start with going from easy to difficult.
Once you get this you start with the syncopation which is playing quarter notes with your thumb and 1/8 notes in between them. It's just practice. Then you can start with MJH. His music is simple, not easy, but simple to play (I wish I could sing like him though). Once you can get good with his music then you can branch out.
There are many greats to chose from. My all time favorite is John Fahey. Check out his song Beverly, the live performance. It's brilliant music and playing. For something slower by him check his live performance when he was young of In Christ There Is No East or West. Absolutely beautiful music!
I can play like that in one take while giving a lesson like a boss with a beard from multiple camera angles too. Then I wake up.
I was fortunate enough to have a great guitar teacher who presented me with a study book on Merle Travis and taught me the book inside out. She knew Merle from her Nashville days and filled in our lessons with stories of the man. I never looked back, that was 1966. Then I discovered Chet.
What book is it and is it still available?
That delivery. Excellent.
Explaining and playing together without mistake, it is simply great.
Talks while playing... plays the intricate notes while talking... never misses a beat. That's some legendary stuff.
Great lesson no doubt. But the actual playing is very easy for a pro, talking through it would be no problem.
An extraordinarily motivating lesson! Paul, you make it look so easy! I've never got to grips (!) with Travis picking, but this lesson has inspired me. I've been doing an hour or so each day as part of my practise for a few days now. I can't do any more than that as my brain gets scambled and I lose it. Nearly there, though, just working on that ending. Had a quick try with the slap, but I'm leaving that part!! Something that sounds easy is so difficult. In the past I've always preferred the easy songs that sound hard! Any one reading this, you can do it, but you have to put the work in. What you don't see is just how much work Paul has put in over the years. Signed: an old gigging rocker, who thought he could play fingerstyle as well!
This was one of the first videos I saw on youtube when I started playing on the guitar and now here I am back again after 2,5 years being still amazed by this. 😊😊 Now I remember how I felt when I started playing.🎸🎸
Best Guitar instruction I’ve ever seen. The clarity is amazing. I can understand this.