Fingerpicking Swing Lesson

Fingerpicking Swing

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  • Hi guys! Welcome to a new acoustic lesson.

    In this one you will practice on a swing groove played with an acoustic guitar.

    This kind of excercise is useful for your fingerstyle technique development. In particular this piece is based on the walking bass technique.

    Guitar: Ibanez AW3000
    Equipment : Laney A1 plugged into my audio interface Zoom TAC-2.
    Tempo : 110 bpm
    Signature : 4/4
    Chord Progression


    | Fm Absus2add13 | Db Gdim7|
    X2
    | Fm Absus2add13 | Db Caug |


    | Bm7add11 Cm7add11 | Db6 C7 |

    | Fm7 | Db7 C7 | Bb7 | Db7 C7 |

    | Fm Absus2add13 | Db Gdim7| Fm Absus2add13 | Db7 C7 |

    | Fm Eb | Db Cm | Bbm | Gm C9(b9) C9(#9)|

    | Fm Eb | Db Cm | Am Ab | Gm C(no5) |

    | Fm | X3

    | Fm6add9 |


    Key signature : F minor

    Techniques used :

    - Fingerstyle
    - Slap


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