Alternating Bass Fingerpicking Guitar Lesson - Make fingerstyle patterns fuller & more interesting!
Aug 18, 2026This is an alternating bass fingerpicking guitar lesson.
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In this week's lesson, I show how to play alternating bass fingerpicking guitar patterns.
The alternating bass part can be different depending on the chord voicing, so I go through every chord in the key of G to show all the options.
But instead of using the viiº chord of the key (the diminished chord), I show how you can replace it with an inversion of D7 (which sounds really good!).
If you play fingerpicking patterns on the guitar but haven't yet worked on alternating bass, I think you'll like this one.
I'll have another episode of my "Chord Melody Made Simple" series next week, and I'll introduce chord melody scales.
Cheers and happy practicing,
~ Jared
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