Creating Fingerstyle Patterns

Intermediate Grade 5 Folk Fingerstyle
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Once you have some of the common patterns down, I think it's important to start making up your own patterns - you'll learn a LOT on this journey!


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how strict should we be in terms of a particular finger on each string? i have big hands and sometimes easier for me to hit lower strings with different fingers.

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@cdogstu99 Hi Christopher and welcome to the JG Community.

It is definitely worth training your fingers to follow the convention unless you have physical constraints that make it truly difficult.
They are conventions.
Many extraordinarily skilled finger pickers do it their way, some with only index and middle fingers involved.
Most finger pickers step away from convention when the occasion suits and the context makes it a better choice.
If you never learn the conventional method, you will always be relying on your own approach and it may cause some difficulties in some situations down the line.

When you say ‘lower strings with different fingers’ do you mean fingers on string 6, 5 and 4 rather than thumb?

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thanks richard, good advice :slight_smile:

mostly meant on strings 1-3 for example in pattern 12 my tendency is to want to use the first finger on string 2 and second finger on string 1.

but i’ll try to get out of the habit and stick to convention and see if i can get it to stick…

thanks!

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