How to Play Finger Style Guitar : Inside Out Finger Picking Pattern for Guitar

Learn the inside out finger picking pattern for playing finger style acoustic guitar in this free video music lesson.

Expert: Jeff Isbell
Contact: www.marijeproductions.com
Bio: Jeff Isbell has been playing, composing, performing, and teaching various styles of guitar for more than 35 years.
Filmmaker: Marie Hulett

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Closed Caption:

Hi this is Jeff Isbell on behalf of ExpertVillage.com.
Today we’re going to look at some more picking
patterns and this one is called inside out,
it just happens to be the very first finger
picking pattern I learned, but in the flow
of these lessons, it belongs here. Let’s
take a look at inside out. Now this pattern
should eventually sound pretty familiar to
you, this is very much like what a lot of
people call Travis picking. We’ll just jump
right into it here. The pattern is, we’re
going to take these middle four strings right
here, the second through fifth string, and
if you take the two outside strings of this
combination it’ll help you figure out where
you are, the two and two. So in this pattern
we’re going to do it this way, Thumb, second
finger, thumb, first finger. Remember the
thumb is going to play both of these and these
two fingers are going to play these two strings,
the second and the third. So, thumb, second
finger, thumb, first finger, we’re playing
an A minor chord by the way. Now eventually
when you get good at this, it will sound like
this. I can’t even imagine how many songs
there are that use this. The other half of
this is called the inside out pitch, where
you pluck the outside two strings, thumb plus
two, thumb. It’s outside, inside, outside,
inside, outside. That’s used in songs like,
I don’t know, like. So there you have it,
that’s the inside out in the inside out
pitch.