From the course: Beginning Acoustic Guitar Music Lessons
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Alternating bass patterns
From the course: Beginning Acoustic Guitar Music Lessons
Alternating bass patterns
- Alright, so now let's try some alternating bass patterns. And this just means that your thumb is going to jump around a little bit. This is used very often in folk and blues, in country finger-picking patterns. But what we're going to do is basically use that thumb on the sixth string and then the fourth string, and jumping around to different chords. So let's do some exercises that practice this. Let's try this one that goes between, again, C, G, and D. Here we go. One, two, three, four. (plucked chords) All right, let's try another pattern like that. This is going to be P A P I. Here we go. One, two, three, four. (plucked chords) And the last alternating bass pattern that we're going to do is a combination of the first two patterns. Here we go. One, two, three, four. (plucked chords) All right, so now let's cover slash chords. Generally, when you see a chord such as G, the name of the chord is also the root note of that chord. By root note, I mean the bass note, the lowest note in…
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