Chords for Beginner Lesson - Inspired Fingerstyle Guitar #3 - Right Hand Pulse - Lance Allen

[A] _ [Em] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F] _
[A] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
Hey everybody, I'm Lance Allen and welcome to True Fire free guitar lessons.
Today I'm going to be teaching you an ongoing series called Inspired Fingerstyle Guitar.
Thanks for watching.
Today I'm going to be teaching you how to do a really cool right hand technique and
percussive rhythm with a single note that's kind of doing a lot of pulsing.
So let's get started.
I'm using a simple chord progression.
I've got my A minor 7, which is basically your first finger and second finger [G] on the
basically like a C chord but [Am] without the third finger.
That's what that should sound like.
[C] And I'm going to go to C chord [G#] and I'm going to [A] use my G chord like [G] this _ and then a [F] bar
chord F.
If you [N] can't do the bar chord, wait until the end of the lesson and I'll show
you how you can do it with the smaller chord.
And don't forget, I'm going to have the tab with this one so look below and make sure
that you get the right hand [G] very well and you'll [F#] be able to do it.
[N] The key is the right hand.
So here we are at our A minor 7.
Our thumb is going to start on string 5, the [A] root note.
[Am] And then our first finger [Em] plucks string 4.
And then our [F#] thumb comes down to [E] string 4.
And this may seem a little uncomfortable or strange that your [N] thumb and first finger is
hitting the same string, but it's exactly what I'm doing to get that really cool [F#m] pulsing
note.
So I'm going [A] to go do thumb, [Em] first, thumb, and then I'm going to do two fingers on string
4 and 3.
That would be your fourth string, first finger, and then third finger, or I'm sorry, middle
finger on the third string.
And you're going to do a double stop and then a tap.
[F#] The tap [G] is where you kind of smack the strings lightly.
They hit the frets a little bit.
[G#] _ [A] And you want your first and second fingers to kind of end up right where they plucked
strings 3 and 4.
So far I've got thumb, [Em] first, thumb, pluck, snap. _
[A] _ [Em] _ _ Then I'm going to do first finger, thumb, first finger at the end.
First, thumb, first, and then you can start over.
[E] So I'm going to play it really slowly, only [Cm] on the A minor chord.
[A] [Em] 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and [A] 4 and 1 [Em] and 2 and 3 and 4 and. _
_ _ _ _ _ Alright, now we're going to use the [A#] same pattern for the C chord.
[G] You just put your third finger there on the third fret and you're [Fm] doing the [C] same thing
in the right hand.
[Em] 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and.
_ When we move to G chord, our thumb is going to switch to string 6.
So I'm [G] going to do 6, 4, [F#] my first finger plays 4 just like it did for [G] A minor and C.
_ _ _ [D] _ The only thing is my [F#m] thumb is skipping [N] string 5.
I'm not going to hit 5, I'm going to go from 6 [G] to 4.
_ _ _ _ _ And [F] then F chord _ is done the same way that you did the G chord. _ _ _ _ _
[N] So you just want to work on the right hand.
Make sure that you look at the [A#] tablature and you get the exact thing down.
P is for your thumb, I index, M for your middle finger.
[G] And [A] just follow that.
[Em] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [A] Alright, and then once you get it up to speed.
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [A] I [N] mentioned that you can use a different F chord.
The F chord that I would suggest probably [F#] is like the smaller bar where [C] you've got your
first finger [F#m] there and middle finger on your second fret third string [G] and third [F#] finger
curled around on the fourth string third fret.
The only thing we're going to do is we're going to use the same pattern for the C chord.
So what we're going to have to do [F] here is _ _ move your thumb to string 4 and our double
stops to string 3 and 2.
_ [A] _ Here's what that will sound [Em] like.
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[F] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ Now you can use this right hand pattern with any of your chords that you like to play or chord progression.
[N] You just have to move your thumb to the root note.
Say if I'm on the D chord, I [F#] have to use my thumb on [Dm] the fourth string. _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ [C] _
[G] _ [F] _ So I _ _ _ hope you [N] enjoyed that.
The right hand is a lot of fun to do that.
Again, my name is Lance Allen and feel free to visit LanceAllenStudio.com
and thanks [C#] for watching this free [A#] [G#] inspired fingerstyle guitar lesson today.