TRAVIS PICKING - The most useful fingerpicking pattern, 6 easy steps!

Welcome to my Travis Picking For Beginners Guitar Lesson! In this tutorial, we'll learn how to travis pick on guitar, starting with the easiest fingerstyle pattern and building up from there. These exercises will help you gradually build the skills you need to play a ton of popular travis picking songs like:

Dust In The Wind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djZ6NyhamDo
Let Her Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us5H7UrOD2c
Landslide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk70aqNmbok
The Boxer: Coming soon!
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright: Coming soon!
...and a TON more!

► "Travis Picking Exercises" Worksheet + TAB pdf available on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/posts/travis-picking-6-55068929

► "Fingerpicking Mastery" covers everything from the most basic motions to the most useful fingerstyle patterns on guitar: https://goodguitarist.com/fingerpicking-mastery/

► Grab your copy of my FREE E-BOOK!
https://goodguitarist.com/learn-rhythm-guitar/

► Need help with the basic chords and strumming? My beginner guitar course will help you build a solid foundation one step at a time:
https://goodguitarist.com/beginner-guitar-course/

Travis Picking Lesson TABLE OF CONTENTS

0:00 - INTRO
2:23 - STEP 1: PLACING YOUR FINGERS
3:15 - STEP 2: WARMING UP
4:37 - STEP 3: FOLLOW THE ROOTS
6:09 - STEP 4: ALTERNATING BASSLINES
8:40 - STEP 5: ADDING FINGER STROKES
10:03 - STEP 6: OFF-BEAT FINGER STROKES
12:40 - FAREWELL MESSAGE

The lesson begins with finger placement. Thumb on the 3 thicker strings. Index on G, middle on B, ring on high e.

Next we warm up with a "thumb vs fingers" exercise and get used to moving our fingers. Whether you are travis picking on acoustic guitar, or electric, this exercise is very important to be comfortable with.

Step 3 involves "following the roots" of each chord shape with your thumb. I also have a chart in my free eBook that'll show you all this information.

Next we practice alternating between notes with our thumb (the travis picking begi...