In this video I'll show you some thumb independence guitar exercises to enhance your fingerpicking and sound more cohesive.
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🕛 Video Content Outline

0:00 - What we're going to cover in this lesson
1:00 - Thumb independence exercise #1
3:10 - Demonstration with "In My Life" by The Beatles
3:43 - Demonstration with "What a Wonderful World"
4:54 - Thumb independence exercise #2
6:53 - Thumb independence exercise #3
8:33 - Demonstration with "What a Wonderful World"
9:45 - Thumb independence exercise #4
11:25 - Demonstration with "What a Wonderful World"
12:23 - Find the exercises that appeal to YOU!
13:20 - Thumb independence exercise #5
15:54 - Demonstration with a classical piece
18:04 - Solo guitar arrangement pack (FREE PDF) & watch next

🔗 Links & Lessons Mentioned in This Video

🎸 Keeping a steady bass going with quarter notes
🎸 My fingerstyle guitar course
🎸 Top 4 fingerpicking patterns
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💬 Lesson Description

This week’s lesson is about solo guitar, which is where we're playing multiple parts at once – melody, bass, and sometimes chords too.

We're going to talk about something that's going to help a lot with getting the full sound of solo guitar, which is thumb independence.

When we're playing more than one thing at once, can our thumb stay steady and independent from what we're playing on top, whether it's melody or chords?

Can we keep track of what we're playing physically, mentally, and aurally?

In this lesson I’m going to show you five thumb independence guitar exercises that are going to help with this fingerpicking skill.

I think they're really fun and very challenging.

You can pick and choose from the exercises as you're working towards playing solo guitar, classical, fingerstyle, fingerpicking, or whatever your goals are.

I hope you enjoyed this lesson about improving your fingerpicking with these thumb independence guitar exercises. Let me know what you thought in the comments.

Thanks! :)

- Jared

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