| Here is a free acoustic guitar lesson to help | | | | three plucking the top two strings again. |
| you improve your guitar playing skills | | | | When you've practiced the acoustic guitar |
| quickly. This guitar learning techique will | | | | lesson above a few times, it will become |
| teach you how to fingerpick folk-style, but | | | | second nature to you to pluck this Latin |
| in a Latin rhythm in the key of A. This Latin | | | | rhythm. Your next part of this acoustic |
| rhythm has eight quick beats to the measure, | | | | guitar lesson is to try the same finger |
| and is accented on the first, the fourth, and | | | | picking pattern using an E chord. Since the |
| the seventh beats. This guitar lesson will | | | | open sixth string is your bass note, you'll |
| focus on using your right hand, and your | | | | pluck it on beat one. Follow through with the |
| thumb will play the accented beats. Your | | | | rest of the measure in the same pattern, |
| fingers will follow. Finger number one, the | | | | except your thumb plucks the fifth string on |
| index finger, is to pluck the third string on | | | | beat four and the fourth string on beat |
| beats two, five, and eight, and fingers two | | | | seven. When you've mastered the E chord the |
| and three will pluck the second and first | | | | acoustic guitar lesson moves on to the D |
| strings together on beats three and six. In | | | | chord. With D, you can just use the fourth |
| the following acoustic guitar lesson, you | | | | string for your thumb-plucked bass note each |
| will chord an A for the first sample. To keep | | | | time. Acoustic Guitar Lesson Tip: Here's a |
| it simple, let's take the beats one at a | | | | fast acoustic guitar lesson secret for making |
| time... Acoustic Guitar Lesson - 7 Steps to | | | | the above finger-picking style of guitar |
| Chord an A: 1) First, the thumb plucks the | | | | playing a little fancier. Chord an A. Here's |
| open A string for a bass note. 2) Next, | | | | how... When you pluck the fourth beat of the |
| finger one plucks the third string, which is | | | | measure lift your chording finger - it's the |
| sounding an A. 3) Then fingers two and three | | | | ring finger on your left hand. Lift it and |
| pluck strings two and one together. These two | | | | then press it while plucking. You'll get a |
| notes will be a C-sharp and the open top E | | | | little slur at the start of the note. This |
| string. 4) Now the thumb immediately plucks | | | | sounds great when you build speed up. Try the |
| string four, which is an E and works as an | | | | same little trick when playing the key of E, |
| alternate bass string. That's beat 4. 5) Now | | | | too. It will be finger two that you will be |
| beat five is just like beat two, with finger | | | | lifting. Finally in this free acoustic guitar |
| one plucking string three. 6) Beat six is | | | | lesson for you, put everything together in a |
| just like beat three, with fingers two and | | | | chord sequence. Play A for two measures, then |
| three plucking the top two strings. 7) On | | | | D for two measures. Play E for two measures, |
| beat seven, use the thumb to pluck the third | | | | then back to D for two measures, then A to |
| string, then finish up with fingers two and | | | | finish up. |