Chords for Basic Fingerpicking Pattern - The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel

_ _ _ Hello my friends Ken Mercer here in this video today
I'm going to show you how to play a basic folk picking pattern this was used by Paul Simon to play the boxer
We're playing a C chord with a G bass
Using the thumb the index finger and the middle finger.
I'm using my little finger just to rest
So I've got a reference point, and I'm going to play a very common picking technique
And this is used a lot of folk music Paul Simon used it to play the boxer
And it goes like this _ _ _ _
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[Bb] So I'm playing the [C] a string with the thumb
the D string with the thumb _
the G string [E] with the index [G] finger
_ [Gm] Then I'm going to the low e with the thumb
[G] _ _ Then I'm playing the B with the middle finger
[C] _ then I'm playing the D with the [E] thumb and
Then the G with the index [G] finger
So all together I have
[C] _ _
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_ And if we start to speed it up _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ So you start off really slow, [Cm] and then when you start to get the the hang of the pattern just [F] gradually build up your speed _
If you're playing the boxer of Simon and Garfunkel
You've got [C] you start off with the C chord
_ _ I am just a poor boy
[G] So [A] we change to an a minor we play the same pattern I
[Am] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] Have squandered G _
same pattern again
for a pocketful _
[C] _ Back to the C
_ _ [N] the picking pattern remains the same throughout those chords, so
Once you get that pattern you'll be able [C] to change chords and then and _ link them together by walking the bass
[A] lines