[Dezzi]

Probably asked a million times before: any suggestions on easy fingerpicking songs for beginners?

Thanks

[MakoMako]

Probably asked a million times before: any suggestions on easy fingerpicking songs for beginners?

Thanks

Then here's the millionth time I've said it... Romanza (also known as Spanish Romance)

[ninjato]

"In the Palm of Your Hands" by Alison Krauss and Union Station

"This Shirt" by Mary Chapin Carpenter

Any 12 bar blues progression.

[Irenic Retral]

Black Bird is fairly easy, the only complicated part at first is the strumming that he does throughout the song.

[narad1986]

Classical Gas , Jenny Wren , Dust in the Wind.

[greatness7410]

Here Comes the Sun

[chinese]

i like finger style too.
but i alway practice our country's music.but i love foreign music very much .
for example : radiohead muse nirvana pink floyd limp biskit etc.....
If you are interested in the music of our country, then i can I can point some to you on

by the way my contry is China.....
as my name. chinese..

my english is poor,please forgive....

[zolio]

Dear Prudence is simple after the intro,
Landslide is also easy.
I wouldn't start off with Blackbird unless you
have lots of time and are able to stretch your
hand over four frets!!!

[Crawdaddy]

House of the rising sun.

[torontodave]

Classical Gas , Jenny Wren , Dust in the Wind.

Not really beginner.

[greatness7410]

i like finger style too.
but i alway practice our country's music.but i love foreign music very much .
for example : radiohead muse nirvana pink floyd limp biskit etc.....
If you are interested in the music of our country, then i can I can point some to you on

by the way my contry is China.....
as my name. chinese..

my english is poor,please forgive....

I'm interested.

[vmorrissette]

Probably asked a million times before: any suggestions on easy fingerpicking songs for beginners?

Thanks

Don't know how beginner this is, but here is a list I found a while ago. Type some of their names into tab websites and see what you find:
http://nwfolk.com/finger.html

[ibanez6]

Go to this site http://www.acousticfingerstyle.com/ and go to the easy or beginner section for some quality tabs.
I found starting out it was best to try songs i Knew really well, like christmas carols, so that you already know the feel of the song.

Good luck with your practise.

[dadfad]

Dear Prudence is simple after the intro,
Landslide is also easy.
I wouldn't start off with Blackbird unless you
have lots of time and are able to stretch your
hand over four frets!!!

The intro isn't too difficult either. I used to do the tune many years ago as a solo piece. I don't know how you play it (I don't even remember exactly what key it was recorded in! ) but if you use dropped-D tuning you can accompany yourself rhythmically alternating on the open lower three strings as you do the fingerstyle intro descending the neck on the treble 1 and 2 strings.

(Eventually somehow me doing the tune back then, it sort of eventually "evolved" into a sort of medley mixed in with the tune "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", which sort of also lends itself well to Dropped-D. As I got more out of doing current more mainstream tunes and more into old-time country blues sets, it became one of the tunes I might do when somebody in the audience wanted me to "do some Beatles." In my old song-list book from back then I listed it as "Dear Lucy" )

[Irenic Retral]

Here Comes the Sun

Is that technically fingerpicking?

[zolio]

I should have qualified my statement on Dear Prudence, it's all
easy, but on my 3/4 size Stella, the very first part of the intro
is really far up the neck. No cut-away, so fingering is fun!!
Sorry for giving the wrong impression!!!

[dadfad]

I should have qualified my statement on Dear Prudence, it's all
easy, but on my 3/4 size Stella, the very first part of the intro
is really far up the neck. No cut-away, so fingering is fun!!
Sorry for giving the wrong impression!!!

I see. Yes the 14th-fret (I think...? In the key of D anyway...) is pretty high up, especially on a 3/4 size. I never used a cutaway, but it would be a pretty tight squeeze on a 3/4-size Stella!

(And welcome to GTU by the way.)

[narad1986]

Classical Gas , Jenny Wren ,Dust in the Wind.

Not really beginner.

ah ok learn them in this order
Dust in the Wind.---> Jenny Wren----> Classical Gas

[ninjato]

"This Shirt" Mary Chapin Carpenter....it's says CAPO on 5th fret, but I play it w/ no CAPO and I usually flatpick the song although I can fingerpick the song which is the intention.

CODE

THIS SHIRT (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
----------------------------------
[Capo 5; each chord is one measure]
[C=x32010; C(4)=x33010; C(9)/B=x20010; Am=x02210; Am/G=3x2210;
Fmaj9=1x3010; G6=3x0000; Em=0x2000; C/G=3x2010; D9/F#=2x0210.]

C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B    C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B
[intro]

C                C(4)         C                C(9)/B
  This shirt is old and faded, all the color's washed away
C              C(4)                C             C(9)/B
  I've had it more damn years than I can count anyway
Am              Am/G          Fmaj9             G6
  I wear it beneath my jacket, with the collar turned up high
Am            Am/G           Fmaj9    G6             C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B
  So old I should replace it, but I'm not about to try
-------------
C                C(4)         C                C(9)/B
This shirt's got silver buttons, and a place upon the sleeve
C                C(4)         C                C(9)/B
Where I used to set my heart up right there where anyone could see
Am              Am/G          Fmaj9             G6
This shirt is the one I wore to every boring high school dance
Am              Am/G          Fmaj9             G6        C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B
Where the boys ignored the girls and we all pretended to like the band
-------------
(BRIDGE)
Em                 Fmaj9          C                 G6
  This shirt was a pillow for my head on a train through Italy
Em                 Fmaj9                C              G6
  This shirt was a blanket beneath the love we made in Argeles
Em               Fmaj9                  C             G6
  This shirt was lost for three whole days in a town near Buffalo
Am                 C/G             D9/F#      G6            C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B 2x
  Till I found the locker key in a downtown Trailways bus depot
-------------
C                C(4)         C                C(9)/B
This shirt is the one I lent you, and when you gave it back
C                C(4)         C                C(9)/B
It had a rip inside the sleeve where you rolled your cigarettes
Am              Am/G          Fmaj9             G6
It was the place I put my heart, now look at where you put a tear
Am              Am/G          Fmaj9             G6
I forgave your thoughtlessness, but not the boy who put it there
-------------
Em                 Fmaj9          C                 G6
This shirt was the place your cat decided to give birth to five
Em                 Fmaj9                C              G6
And we stayed up all night watching, and we wept when the last one died
Em                 Fmaj9                C              G6
This shirt is just an old faded piece of cotton
Am                 C/G             D9/F#      G6            C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B 2x
Shining like memories inside those silver buttons
-------------
C                C(4)         C                C(9)/B
This shirt is a grand old relic with a grand old history
C                C(4)         C                C(9)/B
I wear it now for Sunday chores, cleaning house and raking leaves
Am              Am/G          Fmaj9             G6
I wear it beneath my jacket with the collar turned up high
Am              Am/G          Fmaj9             G6             C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B
So old I should replace it, but I'm not about to try

C  C(4)  C  C(9)/B
[repeat and fade]



TAB:

[Note that this tablature is just four-measure-long PIECES of tab
that you string together to play the whole song.]
[All the chords have the same picking pattern with the thumb playing
an alternating bass line.]


  C                C(4)             C                C(9)/B
E ------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|
B ----------1-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|
G --0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----3-------3---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---|
A 3-------3-------|3-------3-------|3-------3-------|2-------2-------|
E ----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
  (This shirt is old and faded, all the colors washed away...)


  Am               Am/G             Fmaj9            G6
E ------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|
B ----------1-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|----------0-----|
G --2-----------2-|--2-----------2-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----3-------3---|----0-------0---|
A 0-------0-------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|3-------3-------|1-------1-------|3-------3-------|
  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  
  (I wear it beneath my jacket, with the collar turned up high...)


  Em               Fmaj9            C                G6
E ------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|
B ----------0-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|----------0-----|
G --0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|--0-----------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----3-------3---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---|
A ----------------|----------------|3-------3-------|----------------|
E 0-------0-------|1-------1-------|----------------|3-------3-------|
  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  
  (This shirt was a pillow for my head on a train through Italy...)


  Am               C/G              D9/F#            G6
E ------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|------0---------|
B ----------1-----|----------1-----|----------1-----|----------0-----|
G --2-----------2-|--0-----------0-|--2-----------2-|--0-----------0-|
D ----2-------2---|----2-------2---|----0-------0---|----0-------0---|
A 0-------0-------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E ----------------|3-------3-------|2-------2-------|3-------3-------|
  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .  ^ . . ^ . ^ .  
  (Till I found the locker key in a downtown Trailways bus depot...)

This post has been edited by ninjato: 06 May 2006 - 11:31 PM

[vmorrissette]

Tears in Heaven is pretty easy... if it counts