The Easiest Fingerstyle Arpeggio on Guitar
Beginner Guitar Lesson
What’s the easiest fingerstyle arpeggio on guitar?
There are hundreds of different fingerstyle patterns available and probably thousands of different variations.
If we really want to find the easiest fingerstyle arpeggio, we have to look into the three main characteristics that make an arpeggio easy.
- Musical
- Manageable
- Symmetrical
In this guitar lesson, I will show you what I think is the easiest fingerstyle arpeggio on guitar.
This lesson is beginner-friendly, so I encourage everyone to give it a try.
Let’s get started.
The Video
Chords and Pattern
Always Start with the Chords
One of the things I do every time I start a new exercise is to focus on the left hand first, and there is a particular reason I do that.
It isn’t easy to practice the fingerstyle pattern if you don’t know which chords to play.
Also, if the chords are sloppy, the right hand will struggle as well.
The first step is to focus on the chord progression and learn it by heart before moving on practicing the fingerstyle pattern.
Here’s the chord progression: A – E – D – A – E – F#m – E – D sus- A – E – A.
Don’t get scared! Even though it looks like many chords, the majority of them are actually the same, so all you got to do is learn the first chord bunch of chords and then repeat.
Here some of the chords.
The Fingerstyle Pattern
It is time to learn the fingerstyle pattern.
Believe it or not, this is one of the first patterns I learned when I started playing guitar. I was 10 years old, and I remember playing this plucking pattern after a few months of guitar lessons.
It is based on eight notes. Thumb, index, middle, index, ring, index, middle, index better written as P i m i a i m i.
I highly recommend you check this article about plucking and thumb position, which will definitely help you understand the right-hand movement.
Check the pattern below.
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