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Basic Folk Finger Picking - Strumming Pattern
Tip: This finger picking / strumming pattern can be used to play thousands of songs, like the Boxer, The Garden song, etc.
Tip: Instead of strumming the chords of your song, play this picking pattern.
Tip: While picking anchor the pinky finger of the right hand on the sound board for stability.
Tip: Use the following finger sequence with the tabs below: Thumb - Thumb/Middle - Index - Thumb - Middle - Thumb - Index.
Tip: Treat the first note as a quater note and the rest as eight notes.
Enjoy!
C Chord (and all chords with first note starting on A string)
E|-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------1-----------1-----------------------------------|
G|-----------------0---------------0---------------------------|
D|-------------2---------------2-------------------------------|
A|----3----------------3---------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------|
G Chord (and all chords with first note starting on E string)
E|-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------0-----------0-----------------------------------|
G|-----------------0---------------0---------------------------|
D|-------------0---------------0-------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----3---------------3----------------------------------------|
D Chord (and all chords with first note starting on D string)
E|-------------2-----------2-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------3---------------3---------------------------|
G|-------------2---------------2-------------------------------|
D|----0----------------0---------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------|