Ep120 Top 10 Fingerpicking Songs You Should Learn
Guitar Music Theory
Desi Serna
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In my latest podcast episode, I discuss the top 10 fingerpicking songs you should learn. If you want to develop the fingerpicking techniques commonly used in popular styles of music, these songs are some of the best to learn.
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| 0:00.0 | In episode 120 of the guitar music theory podcast, I talk about the top 10 finger-picking songs you should learn. Oh, Greetings guitar engineers. |
| 0:27.0 | guitar engineers. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the guitar music theory podcast. |
| 0:32.0 | I am your host Desi Cerna. And today I'm going to talk about the top 10 finger-picking songs you should learn. |
| 0:40.0 | If you'd like to be one of those guitars that can just pick up a guitar and make beautiful music by just plucking with your fingers, |
| 0:47.5 | then this list is going to be of interest to you. |
| 0:50.5 | I've selected 10 songs from the pop and rock genre that I think are the most |
| 0:56.2 | valuable to learn because they are the best examples of finger-picking technique |
| 1:01.1 | that you'll hear in popular music, at least in my opinion. |
| 1:06.4 | Now as with many things, don't get ahead of yourself. |
| 1:10.3 | This is something that's best for a guitar player who's well beyond the basics and already knows how to play a variety of songs using open chords, power chords, and bar chords. |
| 1:21.0 | Once you have those musical skills, then you'll be ready to work on techniques such as |
| 1:26.7 | finger picking. I've got a great list of songs to go over with you. Today's podcast |
| 1:32.1 | episode is going to be short and sweet. I actually pulled the |
| 1:35.8 | audio out of a video that I made and posted to YouTube and Facebook. If you'd like to see that |
| 1:41.9 | video just go to Google and search YouTube Desi Cerna top 10 finger-picking songs, |
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| 1:54.0 | You don't need to have a YouTube or a Facebook account in order to find those videos and view them online. |
| 2:00.0 | But if you do have accounts, then be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow my Facebook page so you can be notified whenever I post new content. |
| 2:11.0 | And if you're watching on either one of those platforms, make sure you click like and leave me some |
| 2:16.4 | comments. |
| 2:17.4 | I appreciate the feedback and the more interactions I receive, the better my videos perform. |
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