This guitar ebook includes fingerstyle arrangements for Brahms Lullaby, Kumbaya, Ode To Joy, Sarabande, Can Can, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Frère Jacques and All Through The Night. There is also a selection of fingerpicking, bluegrass and chord strumming accompaniments for these pieces. Also includes simple melodies for the songs and warm up exercises.
I have been playing guitar for a while now, but I didn’t start playing classical or fingerstyle until sometime after beginning with rock, pop, funk, reggae and metal styles. I have since started to fall for this style of guitar playing. It’s so relaxing and it’s a challenge and really interesting to explore what can be done. I am nowhere near being a good fingerstyle player, but I’ve been teaching beginners for 12 years and this experience makes it possible to put together an interesting selection of pieces for this book that is for beginner guitar and advanced beginners. The book can be used by teachers in their lessons. Self taught players can learn too, but they would need some prior knowledge of reading music and some basic beginners ability to play a few simple chords together, such as C, F, Am, E, G, G7, D and Dm..
In this book you will find a collection of public domain songs with unique fingerstyle arrangements. There is also a selection of fingerpicking, bluegrass and chord strumming accompaniments for the pieces. The patterns in these accompaniments are fairly basic ideas that can be used for many other songs. It is worth studying these and learning the fingerpicking patterns, how the bluegrass bass notes work and linking that with the off beat chord strums and also getting a grasp of the simple strumming rhythm with accents on beats 2 and 4 for Ode to Joy.
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My aim for this book is to make it easy for people to find an collection of simple fingerstyle songs that doesn’t get too hard too quickly, and opens the door for learning harder or longer songs after confidence has been built up by playing songs that have been arranged to be fairly easy and inviting to play for the beginner or advanced beginner. Some of the fingerstyle arrangements would take some rehearsing for even more advanced players actually, to play them well, so it’s not just a book for beginner guitarists. Perhaps the player may be great at other things but not familiar with fingerstyle, so this might be a good entry.
This book of easy songs has been created by making new arrangements from public domain songs. Public domain songs are great for learning because the tunes are familiar and there are no copyright restrictions for performing or for creating arrangements of them. This book can be used by teachers and students, or by anyone learning on their own.
The fingerstyle arrangements are unique to this book and have been made by playing around with various combinations of melody, bass and notes from the chords until a good balance was reached between being fairly easy to play but also challenging and enjoyable/relaxing.
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Whilst you may find other fingerstyle versions of these songs elsewhere, they won’t be the same as these. I have made them up and not followed anyone else’s so it would be almost impossible for them to be the same, because there are lots of combinations of bass notes (root notes, 3rds, 5ths) to go along with the melody, perhaps different bass line rhythms, and there are also some hammer ons, pull offs and slides in places. You can find many different melody transcriptions with the same melody presented in slightly different ways, but the beauty of fingerstyle playing is that you can be quite creative with the arrangements to make something fairly different and unique, even though these public domain songs have been played countless times before.
The style of the book should come across as a coherent body of work as it’s been arranged by one person. However, it’s good to explore other books written by other people too if you are interested in learning more fingerstyle playing, because other arrangers will add their own style to pieces too and you will learn different things from them. I hope this book will help you start or continue your journey into learning fingerstyle, or perhaps with finger picking or bluegrass guitar playing.Even players like Richard Thompson and Leo Kottke had to start with easy fingerpicking songs before they became who they were as guitar players.
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For “We Are Going To Be Friends, ” your thumb and first finger are just going to take turns picking strings – that’s the entire arrangement.
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Here is the fingerpicking pattern. Your thumb is assigned to the low sounding string, and your first finger is assigned to the high-sounding string.
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Keep a steady beat and pay attention to the flow of the notes. In very little time, you will have the entire song down.
You had to know we weren’t going to get very far in this list of easy fingerpicking songs before running into Paul Simon.
“59th Street Bridge Song” gives you an amazing start with fingerpicking, because you do not need to chase after Paul Simon’s fancy style to have a great arrangement of this song.
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In learning any of these easy fingerpicking songs, it helps a lot to first get a handle on the chord changes by strumming them.
Once your fretting hand is accustomed to the changes, you are free to deal with the picking hand without having to chase after the chords.
Keith Richards uses a flatpick to play “As Tears Go By”, but that does not mean you can’t play it as one of your easy fingerpicking songs!
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The point of this lesson is not to play along to the track right away, but to build dexterity in our fingers to tackle them in full.
“Ain’t No Sunshine” is a great performance song that is simple to work up and sing and play at the same time. (Hint: he says “I know” 26 times.)
In the video above, you can see Bill Withers playing it with moveable shapes, but you can play it beautifully without those shapes.
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This song was covered beautifully by the Dixie Chicks and also by Smashing Pumpkins, but everyone likes to sing like Stevie Nicks.
Travis picking, named after Merle Travis, involves the thumb bouncing between two or three strings on the beat with the other fingers embellishing between the beats.
Check out the tab below to get the fingerpicking pattern under your hands, and then play along to the chords above when you have the pattern down.
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If you have practiced “We’re Going To Be Friends” and “Landslide, ” you are ready to mix up your patterns for some easy fingerpicking songs like this one!
Paul Simon built his fingerstyle guitar career on thoroughly learning Martin Carthy’s beautiful fingerpicking arrangement of “Scarborough Fair, ” which is not on our list of easy fingerpicking songs. You’ll know why when you listen to it.
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“Homeward Bound” has a nice descending bass line in the verse and builds up from the verse to the chorus. Check out the chords below:
Here is the fingerpicking pattern that you’ll need. We’ve included an Em instead of the E7 for some variety. Use the one that feels right to your ears!
The entire song could be played with any of the three rhythms you are using. Place your capo at the third fret to play with the recording!
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Some versions of “Brain Damage” use alternate tunings, but the version you are learning has simple chord shapes and a lovely repetitive Travis picking pattern.
When you get to the B minor at the end of the chorus, just strum whatever B minor chord you are able to play.
This classic from Elvis evolved over the years that he sang it, but it works as one of your easy fingerpicking songs.
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That version involves a little more speed than you may be able to muster when you are first learning. Take the time to play slowly and learn the ins and outs of the pattern first.
The bright side is that this song is so timeless and beautiful that once you learn it, you will almost certainly be asked to play it at your friend’s wedding.
To fingerpick this song, you will use a simple arpeggio running down and back up the strings. This song is in 12/8 time, which means that each beat is divided into triplets.
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As with all new patterns in this list, practice the pattern on one chord until your picking hand becomes comfortable, and then add in the other chords one-by-one.
It’s also helpful to practice songs in pieces, four measures or chords in a row. When
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