Meditative Fingerpicking Exercise (Key of E)

Hey friends! Quick guitar lesson today where I return to the topic of "meditative fingerpicking" -- by which I simply mean, getting yourself into a nice groove while playing fingerstyle. One that you might get lost in, settle into, and otherwise zone out while playing -- but all in a good way.

In this video I'll be in the Key of E, and show you 3 different sequences -- each of which uses only a few chords, and has a few melody notes. And with these building blocks, I'll show you how you might create your own fingerstyle patterns (to fit your skill level) and play *within* the chord progression & melody line I write out in the tabs. Whether you're brand new to fingerstyle guitar, or quite an expert -- the 3 sequences I share will be something you can use to practice, play, and explore.

And or course, I've made a 4-page PDF to accompany my video, showing you the tabs for each sequence -- as well as showing some examples on how you might create & make up your own fingerstyle patterns.

If you want to jump ahead to a specific part of my video, here's a list of timestamps:

- 0:00 Overview & lesson summary
- 3:23 Sequence 1 of 3 (with tab)
- 6:25 How to make up fingerstyle patterns
- 10:11 Sequence 2 of 3 (with tab)
- 12:22 Sequence 3 of 3 (with tab)
- 13:26 Advice on how to practice this

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[justus]

Mr. Pots, your lessons are well thought out, informative, clear, easy to follow and have helped my playing improve drastically over the last year. Thank you your time is very much appreciated!

[mm-znhh]

This is really good, i love exercise like these...plz make more of this if possible..thankz David..😊

[patache]

Hi listening u from Huatusco, Ver MX, thanks for ur lessons

[dimitriosstefanakis]

probably get a lot of requests, but theres this one song im dying to learn and its "King of a one horse town" by Dan Auerbach. would be awesome if you can do a lesson on it.

[sizzler]

I can't make that pinky stretch so I had to capot on 3 at first but now capot on 2. it's a higher pitched version but it means I can make the stretch and soon I will move the capot to 1 and then remove it.

[carpet]

Hey! I'm not sure if you take requests, but can you please do a lesson on American Pie by Don Mclean?! Cheers!

[richardswanson]

Sounds like 12 volt man by Jimmy Buffett

[Alex_U]

David, are you wearing contacts in this? Just noticed.