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Summary: Practice fingerstyle guitar patterns on the C major chord. Learn to play fingerstyle guitar for acoustic rock from a musician in this free guitar video.
Stephen Haendiges is a seasoned musician, guitarist, teacher, composer and performer with over 15 years of experience. Stephen has recorded and performed in top clubs all around the...read more
"In this example I'm going to show another variation of alternate melody, this time in addition to pinches, throwing in a hammer on and again using some open strings and some just simply finger picked within the chord. In this example: I'm going to play up to speed at first, and it sounds like this. So, what I'm doing there is starting with the pinch and the hammer on and then basically doing what we call a banjo roll, which is simply going back and forth. So, I'm going. And, then ending with a C pinch. So, back up to speed, I'm going. You can also do something like that, just end with a nice little hammer on, where you're pinching and hammering on and getting that nice ring of C out there. So, that's essentially another finger stop pattern with a hammer on, pinches and little banjo rolls."