1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,427 Hi, how are you doing? Justin Sandercoe here. 2 00:00:07,427 --> 00:00:10,970 Welcome to Folk Fingerstyle Basic Patterns 1. 3 00:00:10,970 --> 00:00:15,139 Now, I'm hoping you've seen the previous lesson where I explained what fingers go on what strings, 4 00:00:15,139 --> 00:00:17,394 'cause I'm not going to take us through that again now. 5 00:00:17,394 --> 00:00:21,696 And also, it's very important that you've got the TAB up in front of you. 6 00:00:21,696 --> 00:00:25,693 So, if you've stumbled upon this on YouTube, get over to the website (justinguitar.com), 7 00:00:25,693 --> 00:00:31,807 find this lesson using the lesson index, and make sure that you've got this Pattern 1 in front of you, 8 00:00:31,807 --> 00:00:36,023 because I'm going to be referring to it quite a lot as we start going through the close-ups and stuff, 9 00:00:36,023 --> 00:00:38,806 and it really is lots easier if you can see the Pattern. 10 00:00:38,806 --> 00:00:50,050 So, let's get to a close-up, and get stuck in straight away. 11 00:00:50,050 --> 00:00:52,254 So, this is the first Pattern we're going to learn. 12 00:00:52,254 --> 00:00:55,660 You might have noticed that we're using our thumb on two different strings 13 00:00:55,660 --> 00:01:00,429 and we're just using the 1st and 2nd fingers for this Pattern 1. 14 00:01:00,429 --> 00:01:04,462 Now, the first thing, and the most important thing to start off with when you're doing this sort of fingerstyle, 15 00:01:04,462 --> 00:01:07,784 is getting used to the idea of the thumb moving strings. 16 00:01:07,784 --> 00:01:15,974 So, what I'd recommend you start off with is just playing the thumb on the 5th string, and then the 4th string. 17 00:01:15,974 --> 00:01:20,224 Remember, this is just a regular C chord, in case you missed that bit. 18 00:01:20,224 --> 00:01:28,025 And we should just be playing the 5th string, and the 4th string, with the thumb. 19 00:01:28,025 --> 00:01:34,934 Because sometimes it helps if you rest the 1st and 2nd fingers on their designated strings 20 00:01:34,934 --> 00:01:39,332 and get used to the idea of that thumb moving over between the two strings. 21 00:01:39,332 --> 00:01:40,640 Remember, this is the count. 22 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:41,660 It's 1... 23 00:01:41,660 --> 00:01:43,029 2... 24 00:01:43,029 --> 00:01:44,627 3... 25 00:01:44,627 --> 00:01:46,098 4... 26 00:01:46,098 --> 00:01:47,945 Because the thumb is always playing on the beat... 27 00:01:47,945 --> 00:01:49,580 2... 28 00:01:49,580 --> 00:01:51,185 3... 29 00:01:51,185 --> 00:01:53,061 4... 30 00:01:53,061 --> 00:01:57,410 Now, have a look at the actual Pattern, the TAB of it, and the notation, 31 00:01:57,410 --> 00:02:01,146 and you'll see that there are four notes with the little "down stems", there, 32 00:02:01,146 --> 00:02:05,261 and they correlate in the TAB to the notes that are on the 3rd fret and the 2nd fret, 33 00:02:05,261 --> 00:02:07,804 so they're the notes on the beat. 34 00:02:07,804 --> 00:02:12,058 Now, what we're going to start off with is adding in some notes now to our Pattern. 35 00:02:12,058 --> 00:02:15,091 The first note we're adding in is the 2nd string, 36 00:02:15,091 --> 00:02:19,258 and hopefully, you'll remember that the 2nd finger looks after the 2nd string, 37 00:02:19,258 --> 00:02:23,429 and if you look at the TAB, you'll see that comes with the same as beat 1, 38 00:02:23,429 --> 00:02:26,579 so if we're just going to add that note now, and we're going to keep our bass, 39 00:02:26,579 --> 00:02:30,500 and we're going to add in that one note on beat 1, so we'd have: 40 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:32,058 1... 41 00:02:32,058 --> 00:02:33,057 2... 42 00:02:33,057 --> 00:02:34,232 3... 43 00:02:34,232 --> 00:02:35,581 4... 44 00:02:35,581 --> 00:02:36,810 1... 45 00:02:36,810 --> 00:02:38,061 2... 46 00:02:38,061 --> 00:02:39,280 3... 47 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:40,401 4... 48 00:02:40,401 --> 00:02:44,727 and I'd recommend that you practice that a few times, nice and slowly. 49 00:02:44,727 --> 00:02:50,138 Even slower than this if you need to. 50 00:02:50,138 --> 00:02:54,645 And make sure that you can do that comfortably before we add in any other notes. 51 00:02:54,645 --> 00:02:58,337 Now, the next note we're going to add in is on the G string, 52 00:02:58,337 --> 00:03:01,340 and the G string is played by the 1st finger, 53 00:03:01,340 --> 00:03:05,182 and that note comes in between the 2nd beat and the 3rd beat, 54 00:03:05,182 --> 00:03:07,377 so it would be the 'and' after 2. 55 00:03:07,377 --> 00:03:10,811 If we add that in now with our first note as well, we'd have: 56 00:03:10,811 --> 00:03:17,979 1... 2 'and' 3... 4... 57 00:03:17,979 --> 00:03:24,888 1... 2 'and' 3... 4... It's really important to get that count. 58 00:03:24,888 --> 00:03:31,804 1... 2 'and' 3... 4... 59 00:03:31,804 --> 00:03:38,094 1... 2 'and' 3... 4... 60 00:03:38,094 --> 00:03:40,977 Now, there's just one more note for the Pattern so let's add that in, 61 00:03:40,977 --> 00:03:44,380 and that is the 2nd finger playing the 2nd string, 62 00:03:44,380 --> 00:03:46,726 in the 1st fret, of course, because it's the C chord, 63 00:03:46,726 --> 00:03:52,537 and in the C chord on the 2nd string there's a note, a finger in the 1st fret, 64 00:03:52,537 --> 00:03:58,394 and we're going to add that in after the 3, so that's coming on the 'and' after 3. 65 00:03:58,394 --> 00:04:00,089 So, the Pattern now looks like: 66 00:04:00,089 --> 00:04:05,955 1... 2 'and' 3 'and' 4... 67 00:04:05,955 --> 00:04:11,454 1... 2 'and' 3 'and' 4... 68 00:04:11,454 --> 00:04:17,152 1... 2 'and' 3 'and' 4... 69 00:04:17,152 --> 00:04:22,104 Now, what's really important at this stage is that you do it slowly enough to get it right and in time, 70 00:04:22,104 --> 00:04:24,805 and if that means that you're doing it at like this speed: 71 00:04:24,805 --> 00:04:33,255 1... 2 'and' 3 'and' 4... 72 00:04:33,255 --> 00:04:37,184 that's fine. Do it as slow or as fast as you need to. 73 00:04:37,184 --> 00:04:42,294 Now, I would suspect after a little bit of practice that you should be okay doing it at this kind of speed, maybe: 74 00:04:42,294 --> 00:04:50,252 1... 2 'and' 3 'and' 4... 75 00:04:50,252 --> 00:04:59,312 and you probably don't want to go much faster than that for a little while until your fingers really know what is going on. 76 00:04:59,312 --> 00:05:06,639 Because it needs to get automated. With these Patterns, they have to become instinctive. 77 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:12,737 You should be able to talk, or watch television, or whatever, while you're doing these Patterns. 78 00:05:12,737 --> 00:05:24,740 But that'll take practice, you just have to do 'em over and over again. 79 00:05:24,740 --> 00:05:28,812 Now, after you feel really comfortable with it, you might like to start speeding it up, 80 00:05:28,812 --> 00:05:35,237 but don't try and speed up too early. Once you've got it, and you're feeling comfortable with it... 81 00:05:35,237 --> 00:05:38,140 you know, here, this sort of thing... 82 00:05:38,140 --> 00:05:41,647 just try speeding it up a little bit. 83 00:05:41,647 --> 00:05:43,409 If you want to, you can put it with a metronome, 84 00:05:43,409 --> 00:05:54,563 but it's also fine just practicing these things without a metronome. 85 00:05:54,563 --> 00:05:58,070 Okay, let's move on to Pattern 2, now, which is very similar. 86 00:05:58,070 --> 00:06:01,245 We still have the thumb moving on the beat: 87 00:06:01,245 --> 00:06:04,851 1... 2... 3... 4... 88 00:06:04,851 --> 00:06:10,865 but you're now going to see that the first note in the melody department is played on beat 2. 89 00:06:10,865 --> 00:06:14,400 You'll see there, if you look at the music again (it's really important to see the music) 90 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:19,488 that the first note, the 3 (this is the 3rd fret of the 5th string) 91 00:06:19,488 --> 00:06:23,811 is played with the thumb on the 5th string by itself, 92 00:06:23,811 --> 00:06:28,055 and then on beat 2, our thumb has moved over to the 4th string 93 00:06:28,055 --> 00:06:33,817 and we're using our 2nd finger to play the 2nd string. 94 00:06:33,817 --> 00:06:35,647 So, we're starting with thumb... 95 00:06:35,647 --> 00:06:39,090 thumb and 2nd finger together... 96 00:06:39,090 --> 00:06:44,541 Just like before, you want to just add in one note at a time to the Patterns, when you're starting. 97 00:06:44,541 --> 00:06:49,091 1... 2... 3... 4... 98 00:06:49,091 --> 00:06:53,101 1... 2... 3... 4... 99 00:06:53,101 --> 00:06:54,944 Then we might add in the next: 100 00:06:54,944 --> 00:06:58,265 1... 2... 3 'and' 4... 101 00:06:58,265 --> 00:07:02,809 1... 2... 3 'and' 4... 102 00:07:02,809 --> 00:07:07,461 1... 2... 3 'and' 4... 103 00:07:07,461 --> 00:07:11,695 1... 2... 3 'and' 4... 104 00:07:11,695 --> 00:07:16,652 Just again, really slowly, making sure that you get it right, and that it's in time: 105 00:07:16,652 --> 00:07:20,563 1... 2... 3 'and' 4... 106 00:07:20,563 --> 00:07:26,252 It's really important that the thumb is nice and even and that the other notes just fit in. 107 00:07:26,252 --> 00:07:29,400 2... 3 'and' 4... 108 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:34,408 1... 2... 3 'and' 4... 109 00:07:34,408 --> 00:07:42,150 And again, you practice it slowly until you can do it at a kind of reasonable speed. 110 00:07:42,150 --> 00:07:46,170 Now, what I'd recommend actually, once you can do those two Patterns, before we go any further, 111 00:07:46,170 --> 00:07:50,790 is trying to link the Patterns after each other, because these two are very, very commonly played 112 00:07:50,790 --> 00:07:56,242 one after the other. So, we'd end up having Pattern 1... 113 00:07:56,242 --> 00:07:59,062 Pattern 2... 114 00:07:59,062 --> 00:08:01,616 Pattern 1... 115 00:08:01,616 --> 00:08:04,565 Pattern 2... 116 00:08:04,565 --> 00:08:08,211 Pattern 1... 2... 117 00:08:08,211 --> 00:08:15,568 Pattern 1... 2... 118 00:08:15,568 --> 00:08:20,790 Very, very common to link those two things together, so I'd have a try at that as well. 119 00:08:20,790 --> 00:08:28,694 Okay, we're now onto Pattern number 3, which we're changing to a G chord with the fretting hand, just a regular old G. 120 00:08:28,694 --> 00:08:32,540 Now, what's really important here to realise is that the Patterns are the same, 121 00:08:32,540 --> 00:08:38,493 with the fingers and the order of the movements, but the thumb is now playing the bass note 122 00:08:38,493 --> 00:08:45,899 that needs to move over to the 6th string, so to the note G, and it'll still be jumping over to the 4th string. 123 00:08:45,899 --> 00:08:51,405 So, instead of like on the C chord, it was going 5th string, 4th string, over and over again, 124 00:08:51,405 --> 00:08:57,022 when we change to the G chord, it's going 6th string, 4th string. 125 00:08:57,022 --> 00:09:02,192 So, only a little change, but it's something that I would highly recommend you doing exactly what I'm doing now, 126 00:09:02,192 --> 00:09:08,345 and practicing just moving between the 6th string and the 4th string and kind of get used to that. 127 00:09:08,345 --> 00:09:10,742 Now, I'm hoping that you won't have too much difficulty, 128 00:09:10,742 --> 00:09:15,405 once your thumb's used to doing that, to play the same Patterns, because we've got here 129 00:09:15,405 --> 00:09:18,082 thumb and 2nd finger together: 130 00:09:18,082 --> 00:09:23,194 Thumb 1 Thumb 2 Thumb... together. 131 00:09:23,194 --> 00:09:26,223 Thumb 1 Thumb 2 Thumb... 132 00:09:26,223 --> 00:09:30,405 it's exactly the same as that first Pattern that we looked at with the C chord, 133 00:09:30,405 --> 00:09:36,910 but the bass note, the note that's on beats 1 and 3, has moved over to the 6th string. 134 00:09:36,910 --> 00:09:51,423 All of the rest is the same. 135 00:09:51,423 --> 00:10:01,019 Again, really slowly, make sure that you get it right. When you feel confident, start to speed it up. 136 00:10:01,019 --> 00:10:05,987 Okay, now Pattern 4 is exactly the same as Pattern 2, but now we're on the G chord. 137 00:10:05,987 --> 00:10:11,176 So, this one is, starts off with the bass note by itself, thumb and 2nd finger together, 138 00:10:11,176 --> 00:10:15,406 Bass note, 1st finger, and thumb. 139 00:10:15,406 --> 00:10:19,655 Bass, together, Bass 1 Thumb... 140 00:10:19,655 --> 00:10:31,167 Bass, together, Thumb 1 Thumb... 141 00:10:31,167 --> 00:10:38,620 And, again, we would try and link Patterns 3 and 4, so we'd have this: 142 00:10:38,620 --> 00:10:42,157 Pattern 4... 143 00:10:42,157 --> 00:10:45,745 Pattern 3... 144 00:10:45,745 --> 00:11:01,992 Pattern 4... 145 00:11:01,992 --> 00:11:04,494 Now, once you feel confident with that, what I would recommend 146 00:11:04,494 --> 00:11:13,617 is starting to mix up the patterns a little bit now, so we would go from Pattern 1, which is a C chord: 147 00:11:13,617 --> 00:11:19,588 to Pattern 3, which is the same thing, but with a G chord: 148 00:11:19,588 --> 00:11:26,879 and try to get the change without having a pause in there. 149 00:11:26,879 --> 00:11:31,257 So, you go 1... 2 'and' 3 'and' 4... 150 00:11:31,257 --> 00:11:34,900 1... 2 'and' 3 'and' 4... 151 00:11:34,900 --> 00:11:38,438 1... 2 'and' 3 'and' 4... 152 00:11:38,438 --> 00:11:54,020 1... 2 'and' 3 'and' 4... 153 00:11:54,020 --> 00:12:14,491 And, of course, maybe you might play 1 and 2 on the C chord, and then 3 and 4 on the G chord. 154 00:12:14,491 --> 00:12:18,860 Don't be surprised if it takes quite a lot of practice to get these Patterns automated. 155 00:12:18,860 --> 00:12:22,595 Don't expect to just be able to learn what they are and do it, and change between the different 156 00:12:22,595 --> 00:12:25,540 chords and the different Patterns right away. It doesn't work like that. 157 00:12:25,540 --> 00:12:29,326 It didn't work like that way for me, and I've seen hundreds of students over the years really struggle 158 00:12:29,326 --> 00:12:35,077 with this stuff. You have to just do it slowly and accurately. Take one Pattern, practice it 159 00:12:35,077 --> 00:12:38,704 over and over again until you're confident with it, then learn another one. 160 00:12:38,704 --> 00:12:42,112 And I know I'm going through a few Patterns in this one video, but I don't want to have 161 00:12:42,112 --> 00:12:46,459 to spend ages and ages just on one Pattern and end up having loads and loads of very long 162 00:12:46,459 --> 00:12:50,743 and probably quite boring videos. So, it's up to you now to stop and do the practice, 163 00:12:50,743 --> 00:12:55,371 get that Pattern sorted out properly and be able to do it. Now, there's one 164 00:12:55,371 --> 00:12:59,208 really important thing that I need to explain to you, which is the idea of the different chords, 165 00:12:59,208 --> 00:13:03,080 because so far we've just looked at a C chord and a G chord, but really, what it's about 166 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:07,595 is whether a chord has a 5th-string root, or a 6th-string root. 167 00:13:07,595 --> 00:13:14,098 So, the common chords with a 5th-string root, we'd have C of course... 168 00:13:14,098 --> 00:13:16,623 maybe B7... 169 00:13:16,623 --> 00:13:19,457 A minor... 170 00:13:19,457 --> 00:13:23,860 that's kind of the main chords. G with a B base, if you want to get all fancy... 171 00:13:23,860 --> 00:13:28,145 you could use that as well. With a 6th-string root, you've G chord... 172 00:13:28,145 --> 00:13:30,383 E minor... 173 00:13:30,383 --> 00:13:35,949 F, I guess, if you're using your barre chords, or any of your, you know, E-shape barre chords. 174 00:13:35,949 --> 00:13:41,781 You've also got, now, a little bit of a, kind of a "funny business" going on here, which is 175 00:13:41,781 --> 00:13:45,379 the D chord. What do you do with a D chord? Hang on, that's got a 4th-string root, and it kind of muddles 176 00:13:45,379 --> 00:13:49,651 all of our Patterns up. Now, the trick with the D chord, is, well there's a couple 177 00:13:49,651 --> 00:13:54,488 of different ways of dealing with D. Most commonly done, when you've got a D chord, 178 00:13:54,488 --> 00:13:58,440 is you move all of your fingers down a string, so the thumb would then take care 179 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:03,182 of the 4th string and the 3rd string, and your 1st finger will end up playing 180 00:14:03,182 --> 00:14:07,902 the 2nd string, and your 3rd* finger will take the thinnest string, and your 3rd finger just doesn't 181 00:14:07,902 --> 00:14:14,111 get any action at all. So, that's the most common way for a D chord, so you just 182 00:14:14,111 --> 00:14:18,657 move all of your fingers down a string and play the same Pattern like we played with the C chord 183 00:14:18,657 --> 00:14:21,141 but just everything toward the ground one string. 184 00:14:21,141 --> 00:14:24,579 The other approach, which is quite an interesting one, I think it sounds pretty cool, is to play 185 00:14:24,579 --> 00:14:29,499 a D with an F# base, something we looked at in the Intermediate course, and treat it as 186 00:14:29,499 --> 00:14:36,738 a 6th-string root. That's a very, very common way around it. There's some other tricks 187 00:14:36,738 --> 00:14:40,436 as well, but we'll probably get onto those later. So, for now, just be aware of the different 188 00:14:40,436 --> 00:14:45,222 chords: you should know, hopefully, all of your open chords, where the root note is. 189 00:14:45,222 --> 00:14:48,555 If you don't, then that's something you really need to check out. So, if you're playing the C chord, 190 00:14:48,555 --> 00:14:52,787 "What string is the note C on?", right, on the thickest couple of strings. 191 00:14:52,787 --> 00:14:56,872 It's really important that you understand that, you know? That's kind of basic guitar skills. 192 00:14:56,872 --> 00:15:00,943 So, make sure that you know the Patterns that fit with each of the different chords. 193 00:15:00,943 --> 00:15:04,653 Don't just practice C and G. 194 00:15:04,653 --> 00:15:12,040 A nice progression might be to practice C, G, A minor, F. 195 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,832 Very, very common chord sequence. 196 00:15:15,832 --> 00:15:27,988 Which would obviously be 5th-string root, 6th-string root, 5th-string root, 6th-string root. 197 00:15:27,988 --> 00:15:33,823 Okay, there's ten billion songs that use that one, right? So, just with this really simple little bit of info, 198 00:15:33,823 --> 00:15:37,462 these couple of Patterns that we've looked at so far, there's a lot of mileage in it. 199 00:15:37,462 --> 00:15:41,564 So, don't feel like you've got to rush too much. Don't, you know, I can't stress that enough. When you try 200 00:15:41,564 --> 00:15:46,989 and rush through these things, you won't get them. You'll end up kind of not playing the Pattern 201 00:15:46,989 --> 00:15:51,550 exactly right, or playing the wrong strings half the time, and it's really, it's better to have 202 00:15:51,550 --> 00:15:54,916 these kind of, because we're going to get more complicated, right, but you want to get these 203 00:15:54,916 --> 00:15:59,435 basic Patterns down. Really, I call it a "default setting", you know, the fingers automatically 204 00:15:59,435 --> 00:16:03,385 go to those strings, and you've got these fingerstyle Patterns that you can just pull out straight 205 00:16:03,385 --> 00:16:07,458 away, and they happen naturally, and it only happens through lots and lots 206 00:16:07,458 --> 00:16:08,982 and lots and lots 207 00:16:08,982 --> 00:16:10,243 of practice. 208 00:16:10,243 --> 00:16:16,799 So, when you feel confident with these ones and you can do them properly and easily, and they feel natural, 209 00:16:16,799 --> 00:16:19,345 then join me for the next lesson, when we're going to break out 210 00:16:19,345 --> 00:16:23,291 the 3rd finger, and make the Patterns just a little bit more complicated. 211 00:16:23,291 --> 00:16:27,291 See you for that lesson very soon, take care of yourselves, bye bye.