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Travis picking
    #21084323 - 01/07/15 08:37 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

I learned travis picking about a week or two ago through a youtube tutorial on fingerpicking in general and it taught viewers the pattern using 4 fingers.

As I learn Dust In The Wind I lose my right hand configuration in the small parts where the picking hits on either the 6th string or 1st string and then continues back to normalcy.

The video I'm learning this song from suggests 3 fingers.  Should I relearn this style of picking with only 3 fingers or simply keep working on it with my 4 finger base? 

I don't know if it's my noobiness that's getting my right hand lost after hitting the odd strings or my version of travis picking.  I suspect it's my noobiness but just spittballin here looking for opinions...

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Re: Travis picking [Re: cez]
    #21084534 - 01/07/15 09:21 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

If you're more comfortable using 4 fingers stick with that. Trying to relearn I would bet that you find yourself drifting back to using 4 fingers naturally.  :shrug:


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Re: Travis picking [Re: r00tuuu123]
    #21084559 - 01/07/15 09:24 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

I think it is worth learning to pick with four fingers, but at the same time, don't be afraid to use just three if it works for the song or the riff. Thumb, pointer, middle, and ring fingers.

Eventually you will probably learn to song so well that you could play it with a combination of three and four fingers. It will just come naturally.


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Re: Travis picking [Re: cez]
    #21084598 - 01/07/15 09:31 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

I would continue using four fingers, just until you get a natural feel for where all the strings are, then you can try using three without too much confusion. Try to assign a finger to each string, and keep them there to begin with, thumb for the bottom three, index for the 3rd, middle for the second, ring for the first. Once you can do this without thinking about it then it shouldn't be too hard to change and use three fingers, or whatever style you want.

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Re: Travis picking [Re: drop dead fred]
    #21084656 - 01/07/15 09:42 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

Learn 4-finger picking. It may be slow at first but certainly worth it. Fundamentals my son! Then once you have everything down you can find your own stylistic path.

Oh, try chicken-picken' out too. It's pretty fun :lol:

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Re: Travis picking [Re: KingKnowledge]
    #21084717 - 01/07/15 09:54 PM (9 years, 4 months ago)

Cool.  Will stay the course then for now.

Thanks everyone :thumbup:

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