Understanding John Mayer's Insane FINGERSTYLE Technique!

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In this video, I want to walk you through the steps I took to learn John Mayer's insane acoustic fingerstyle technique.

Over the past twenty years, John Mayer gifts us with amazing music. I love his music and approach to songwriting more than his incredible abilities on the guitar.

Mayer can play electric and acoustic guitar incredibly well, and in this video, I want to focus on his approach to fingerstyle guitar.

John Mayer's fingerpicking technique is unique. He only plucks the strings with just two fingers (the thumb and index finger), yet his groove is insane.

In this video, I tried to learn the fingerpicking pattern of his song NEON. I then played the pattern over a different chord progression.

Let me show you how I did it.

Enjoy the video.

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I started playing guitar when I was 10 years old, so it has been more than 20 years. I have always loved fingerpicking guitar, so this is why all my tutorials focus on this topic.

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[alvislarson]

The anti-copyright neon in the beginning 😂🙌🏾

[binodbaiju]

Love your approach to interpret JM’s neon in your own way.

[brandonbandstra]

@7:46 okay, thank you. I spent 6 months learning this. Now i feel validated

[loarzhapunkt]

This is going to be one of your most viewed videos! This breakdown of a complex technique from a studied classical guitarplayer is right what good guitarplayers Need!! Please more of it!!

[fmarolia]

Your video and message must resonate with everyone who have been trained playing the nylon string all these years and are completely embarassed by percussive picking. Thank you for putting this so honestly together.

[alaogodswill]

I love the fact that he refered to Paul davids for the video ....respect 🖐️🖐️🖐️

[aritradutta]

I've been working on this song for over a month now.. I'm about 95% of the way there.. it's amazing to see you getting the picking pattern down so quickly.. getting that technique down perfect is essential in getting the whole song down.. the arpeggios he does later and even the crazy improvs he does uses that technique. So learning this using PIMA is nearly impossible imo.

[pawel]

0:41 is my reaction for basically all of your videos ;D

[hitesh_blues]

Your video helped me to learn the two finger picking pattern! I was struggling with it for a long time and through this video I finally got my "aha" moment. Thanks a million :)

[artaxAF]

The picking method is very reminiscent of drop-thumb clawhammer banjo. I play clawhammer and have tried applying it to guitar with mixed results. Cool to see someone doing it well.

[Guitarainer]

pretty cool - your intro is golden - i like how you things mix up - its so awesome to see your constant developement in video editing and entertainment in your lessons - great job !

[mara.j]

"Sometimes breaking the rules can actually take you where you're supposed to be". I don't think that was intended to sound like a quote or inspirational but it did lol. True.💫

[TepidJean]

5:13 down up down up, groove from the elbow, tactile!

[drsteviejasengnsangma]

Brother Marco in this video your way of teaching guitar is so awesome, unique and most of all it is indeed very eye opening.
Big thanks to you and also to John Mayer..
Have a blessed Good Friday
from Northeast India

[magomerlino]

Simply great! One of the best video I've ever seen.

[heisenberg]

I love the first part of the ❤️
That was a pretty unique think 🙃✌️✌️

[NoMeWithoutYou]

Marco, you are a great teacher. Thank you. 🙏

[adamnasim]

Awesome video. Really nice to see someone of your skill learn and work your way through it. This is something that is 'hidden' in Youtube, where people just show off the final, polished version.

[yudishpradhan]

Today i learned something new n unique..
Thanks dude!!💖💖

[MPHALL-sw]

Absolutely fantastic knowledge and presentation.