TRAVIS PICKING - The most useful fingerpicking pattern, 6 easy steps!

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Welcome to my Travis Picking For Beginners Guitar Lesson! In this tutorial, we'll learn how to travis pick on guitar, starting with the easiest fingerstyle pattern and building up from there. These exercises will help you gradually build the skills you need to play a ton of popular travis picking songs like:

The Boxer: Coming soon!
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright: Coming soon!
...and a TON more!

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Travis Picking Lesson TABLE OF CONTENTS

0:00 - INTRO
2:23 - STEP 1: PLACING YOUR FINGERS
3:15 - STEP 2: WARMING UP
4:37 - STEP 3: FOLLOW THE ROOTS
6:09 - STEP 4: ALTERNATING BASSLINES
8:40 - STEP 5: ADDING FINGER STROKES
10:03 - STEP 6: OFF-BEAT FINGER STROKES
12:40 - FAREWELL MESSAGE

The lesson begins with finger placement. Thumb on the 3 thicker strings. Index on G, middle on B, ring on high e.

Next we warm up with a "thumb vs fingers" exercise and get used to moving our fingers. Whether you are travis picking on acoustic guitar, or electric, this exercise is very important to be comfortable with.

Step 3 involves "following the roots" of each chord shape with your thumb. I also have a chart in my free eBook that'll show you all this information.

Next we practice alternating between notes with our thumb (the travis picking begins!)

After that, we can add some strokes with our fingers and we're travis picking! That's all there is to it!

I hope you enjoy the lesson! See you next time!
-James

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Here are some songs you can practice travis picking with:

Good_Guitarist

Would just like to say thank you, I’ve played guitar for over 50 years, I’m now 63 and have never been so inspired, you’ve given me the inspiration to keep practicing to master this unbelievable instrument !

DrewAgnew

59yr old here, a guitar player since age 13...while this lesson is for beginners, it helped a seasoned strummer like me! I used to only use my thumb and first finger as a hybrid picking style (in other words, it was all I could muster, and I learned how to fake it well). I'm now at the age where I have more patience with myself and a keen desire to play better.
Much appreciate the patient and relaxed delivery and approach to the lesson!
Kudos to ya!

Peter-xyio

This is the best and easiest to understand teacher that I’ve found. He slows it WAY down and isn’t impatient. Thank you!

jenniferbennett

This channel is just awesome. I'm so glad I found it! As a beginner guitarist and broke as hell, these videos just make my day. Thank you!

virtuaaliseppo

James I was lucky enough to find you a year or two ago. You are such a generous and patient instructor. SO HAPPY TO SEE THIS POP so excited to get started with you on this!!! thank you SO much :)

maraalvarez

Man finally some who has help with Travis pick…. Please keep it up love it

jerrymacias

A very good teacher, easy to follow and to understand. Thank you so much!

barcelonared

Thank you so much for this! I was placing my fingers all wrong. You're a great guitar teacher.

saltycat

Great teaching. You explain it well and are easy to follow.

adeliaemailnelson

Thank you so much. Travis picking is something I’ve always wanted to learn. I’ve watched others trying to teach but it gets so complicated…..with my old mind it is at times hard to follow… but I made it through your lesson without any trouble right from start to finish. I know it isn’t me, it has to be you and your teaching method.I just wanted to tell you that the way you teach is so easy to understand, Your charts are done so well. I’ve been on sites where one isn’t sure if they are playing the base alone or with the fourth string because the charts are hand done and one really can’t tell where the numbers line up. Yours are excellent, thanks for the time and effort you put into this video!!! I’m going to look at your fingerpicking mastery course. All the best Marianne

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