where I'm showing you my top three fingerpicking songs for absolute beginners

We're going to be covering the principles of fingerstyle playing so if

you're brand new to this or you're wanting a refresher of all the basics this is

the perfect place to start! Of course if you like this lesson please subscribe

and check out my playlist my finger picking style songs on my YouTube

channel so the absolute easiest fingerstyle song has to be a song called

nothing else matters by Metallica now if you're not a Melvin don't worry you'll

probably ahead of this song and I'm pretty sure it's the best song to start

off with the principles of fingerstyle guitar plane so a quick low-down is what

happens in the interim this song is as follows

and that's it so we don't actually need a cold hand down for this it's just

includes your right hand and legend has it that he actually wrote this song

while he was on the phone and he just played in mind this is fairly easy but

the principles of fingerstyle playing the Wii assigned a finger on your phone

to certain strains and they stay on those strengths Sassine to those rings

throughout maybe an entire song and in this case the thumb is assigned to the

thick a string and fingers 123 go underneath the thinnest three strains

and this is very common throughout anything the staff song that this will

be the case

the reason being that the song plays the root note of our cohort so even though

we don't actually have a cold down this is a minor chords and if you think about

it these two strings so that would be only minor code but if we just played

the ones that we've got nothing to say

doesn't include these two strings so we don't need a court and down but we are

playing at court and we start off without them and then we play fingers

one

2003 on strings 32 and then going forward the thumb may move between any

one of these thicker strings but the fingers tend to stay assigned to the

thinnest three strings or the next 10 so we start with us and what we want to do

is keep all your on your wrist is still as possible keep it nice and relax but

still feel some into your hand and don't let it go back onto the string but

having waiting so the strength but when we hit it next and then we have these

three fingers waiting here but they want to live just above the strength and we

reached write each finger one at a time

and then

accuracy we probably need to an Keo handsome what is very common for people

to a pinky here and to do it like this

starting from the phone

it can be just as comments arrest your wrists on the guitar here this is a bit

more of a pop or rock style fingerstyle plane so whichever is more comfortable

for you many of you this

that is the starting principles of all fingerstyle guitar playing shown in that

one easy peace now the rest of that song does go much more complex but you can

find the tab for that some and all the lessons will be covering this video no

future lessons by clicking the link in the description to my website will have

the full rights of all types of the songs this second song that I've chosen

as a song from my biggest goals ain't no sunshine in the course you don't have to

do the things start to do this song but I wanted to cover the finger style in

this lesson to solve demo it more fully in the song ain't no sunshine by bill

with us we plan a my knuckles like this on the open string because that's the

root note of this and then assigned fingers one two and three straight up

from the bottom of the Finnish strings we're gonna come up one string so its

own two three and four we hit the thumbs first press down on him on a cold and

stromal the fingers together

nice at this point we should really be conscious that you can try and play with

your fingernails rather than the fleshy part of your fingers though the third

that to the tip and to launch the nails that better kind of in a cloth and we

plot no fingers and if we just keep out partying going into joining with me

we can get used to this

that's a starting point that only needs to happens once we change to the E minor

cold and goes to stream six but I think you stay static on the street and we

only do one here

before we changed to achieve coat but we only need your middle finger to change

because we're only playing those strings were not playing the middle finger moose

she

so altogether that should sound like this

time

even a slight rockingham and all the time your thumb and fingers are just

putting into your hand and all the forearm and wrist a little finger if you

rested her little finger all that stands still and we look inwards one finger at

a time and your thumb just put into words everything else should stay still

as possible

you can do it without resting your wrist or without your pinky that's even better

allows us to stay much loose and classical style

one last time really slow with this song

needing that song that happens twice and then we have an easy minor or a whole

bar and a D minor for all this in just the same one

now for that D minor with the troof know here we've had to move our fingers down

to the finished ring so that we've got all the strings from the D minor ringing

now so in context

that would happen again

and then is the body of a minor

to see more of how to play the song that I've discovered there ain't no sunshine

check out the video in the link in description or on the video some less so

you can check out that full guitar lesson for free trade zone out and cover

my final fingerstyle recommendation the song I recommend for all beginners to

have a god this is a personal favorite mind this is a song called something

from nothing from the last Foo Fighters album was originally electric guitar so

many goes very heavy and Dave Grohl did an acoustic version both songs use

fingerstyle in the introduction so to compare and contrast the electric to

acoustic this is a great song to cover and the intro sounds like this

so we have the same finger style pattern or a very similar one as it no sunshine

book this time instead of using codes we're just changing the route know which

is a massive principal especially for high-level get too often when cause

change the code would have a different name but the only note that has changed

is the root no this happens in loads of really high level songs and this one's

so easy because we're just changing the route which you can do with one finger

and the other strings are just hanging out 12 cover and to play we need to

start with your first or middle finger doesn't really doesn't really matter at

this time let's start without first fingerless seventh fret on the A string

that's the third dog on mine from the from the open string and we'd be here we

play in the snow and it's just without first two fingers move between the thumb

and the G and the B string string to string three

this

with the little finger

we can rest on the wrists

I cannot rest all around here

and to begin the Sun the root note alternator after four times through this

2008 into the thickest he knows both of these high off to a lower up to then

goes to the lower on

do that twice

I'm not the singing would begin we begin a descending pattern down the fret your

first finger moves down the threat boat after four blocks of the throne

down again

that's when we get to the third friends

we only do it twice we move to the second change strain second

the D straight to recap we went

to

and then to the open thing is needed

so to recap we descended down from 76 happens twice then changes stream down a

street into second fret again if an opening 123 just and 2nd fret that was

twice per second downstream one quick demo of them will have a go together

and that's the person in charge of something from nothing by the Foo

Fighters fantastic song really super easy to do to learn the rest of us on

both the electric and acoustic versions you want to click the link in

description so either of those videos and the tab for all of this lesson has

been on the website and eat a taco and our UK links in the description if you

want to see the full sample each one of those songs embedded on my side for easy

you've got everything that you need to follow up from this lesson but even if

you don't follow up with the whole song you've got the principles that table

would follow any acoustic guitar fingerstyle song that you want to learn

so hokey and one of those future videos please subscribe if you haven't already

and I'll see eleven guys take care bye for now

hi guys my name is Andy and in this lesson I'm gonna be showing you the

easiest three chords to play on your guitar and then demonstrate in 10 songs

that you can play using only these three chords

E Major and the A major and we were changing between them

in this fashion with the first finger being used as an anchor point to go between

those two chords