From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate

Flatpicking arpeggios

From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: Intermediate

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Flatpicking arpeggios

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- All right, now for flat picking arpeggios. Typically, when you first start flat picking you're doing things just on one string, or maybe crossing strings a little bit, but for full on arpeggios you're changing strings rapidly. Now, you can get some really cool sounds, and it's great to mix in with your single lines, but there are some exercises here that are designed to help you work on flat picking arpeggios. So, let's check out this next example. One, two, three, four. All right, now for Love and Trains. So, this song is in 12/8 feel. So, it has this nice rolling smooth sound to it. You're alternate picking throughout. And what that means is each grouping, each pulse you're going to pick down up down up down up down up down up down up. Okay, so just keep that flowing throughout, always alternate picking. And I hope you enjoy this one, here we go. One, two, three, four.

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