9 Most Used Fingerstyle Guitar Pattern

What Guitar Players Play the Most

Fingerstyle Guitar is one of the most amazing and creative techniques on guitar.

The ability to pluck strings individually can open the doors to unlimited possibilities.

In this video, I will show you the 9 Most Used Fingerstyle Guitar Pattern that guitar players use the most.

You can get the tab here at BlitzGuitar.com.

The Video

Let’s get into details.

This video can be quite overwhelming, I know.

So many different styles of music squeezed in 4 minutes video.

Fingerstyle guitar is awesome and creative but also difficult at first.

Many times, we don’t know how to pluck the strings and which finger should pluck the strings, so we go with the flow, and most of the time, we end up playing the wrong way.

This video is definitely not a starting point for beginners but rather a goal to achieve.

I have a ton of video lessons available for beginners and intermediate guitar players, so make sure you check out the BlitzGuitar store.

Let’s get started.

The Blues Fingerstyle

C7 – F7 – C – G7 – F7 – C7

This style of music is beautiful and really fun to play.

The fingerstyle guitar pattern is characterized by the thumb movement that will always alternate between two bass notes, the root note and the 5th.

You can listen to the thumb movement at the really beginning of the video, where I play the first two bars just with the thumb.

Really fun fingerstyle pattern and simple chords.

The Keyboard Fingerstyle

C – G – Am – F

One of my favorite way of playing guitar.

This fingerstyle guitar pattern is pure magic, and it will give you the feeling of playing like a keyboard player.

One of the things I love the most about this way of playing chords is that we can constantly change voicing with almost no effort with fingerstyle.

Definitely worth checking out the tab for this one. It makes more sense when you see it on paper.

The Mixed Fingerstyle

A7 – D7 – A7 – D7 – A7 – E7 – D7 – A7 – E7

With the mixed fingersytle we will combine plucking and single plucking.

You will be playing the chords (accompaniment) with the plucking with the single plucking the lead (solo).

For this example, I am playing a 12 bar blues with chords and solo.

I love to play a few chords, leave some space for a few lines, and then go back with the chords.

One of my favorite way of playing.

Minimalist Fingerstyle

A – E – F#m – D

Mainly used in pop and indie music, this approach is straightforward to implement in your playing.

The rule here is never to play the full chords. Instead, you want to focus on play one or two notes only.

The fingerstyle guitar plucking will also be really simple and minimalist.

I love this chord progression:

The Two Fingers Fingerstyle

Playing with two fingers should never be an option, but so many guitar players do so; I guess we have to talk about it.

Playing with thumb and finger can be a good starting point for beginners.

It is easy and doesn’t require a lot of practice to get your fingers going.

I am play Asturias by Isaac Albeniz.

One of the most famous classical guitar piece.

Classical Fingerstyle

Took that fingersytle guitar pattern from a classical guitar piece written by Mauro Giuliani, an Italian guitar player, composer, singer, and cellist.

This is one of the most famous fingerstyle patterns, so you really want to memorize it and use it over different chord progressions.

I am using just two chords: Am – E7

The right hand definitely more challenging than the left.

The Tremolo Fingerstyle

Another awesome guitar technique that we can borrow from classical guitar.

The Tremolo is a creative way to play a melody using the thumb, ring, middle, and index finger in sequence.

The thumb will play the bass note and the arpeggio.

The fingers will play the same strings three times.

Not an easy technique.

The Jazzy Fingersytle

Dm7 – G7/13 – Cmaj7 – A7(b13)

This is the easiest fingerstyle guitar pattern you will find in this video.

The Jazzy fingerstyle is used by jazz guitar players and involves plucking the strings with thumb and fingers simultaneously. It is though pretty simple.

Chords, on the other end, are much more difficult.

The Busy Fingerstyle

Some fingerstyle guitar patterns can be pretty busy.

In this example, I am playing a pattern that I learned from a Villa Lobos study.

Definitely worth practicing a Busy Fingerstyle sometimes if you really want to push yourself and take your fingerstyle to the next level.