Travis Picking for Beginners

I am not a beginner guitarist and I am not a beginner at Travis Picking but I still find I have trouble and this tutorial had the "Light Bulb Moment" for me! I've heard and seen these exact patterns before but the explanations seemed to complicate matters and this one-simplified immensely. Now, I just have to practice. Thank you very much!

Thanks for sharing this, this was a great way to explain the Travis picking, I was finally able to pick it up.

Wow! This actually makes sense to me after watching many videos. Thank you!

Very nice! When I learned Travis Picking 30 years ago it was with a flat pick 'Pick Fingers' playing a steel string flat top. My old hands are getting harder and harder to play but it nice to see Travis Picking different styles and techniques.

Thank you for your Travis fingerpicking lesson. I am at the intermediate level of acoustic fingerpicking guitar playing. I like the fingerpicking music of Merle Travis, Mississippi John, Etta Baker, and many others. However, unlike these fingerpicking pioneers, right from the beginning I decided to play fingerpicking style using three fingers and the thumb of my right hand as many classical guitarists do. I never wanted to restrict myself to using only the thumb and the index finger or only the thumb, index, and middle fingers. That is just my preference.

An excellent short lesson. Very clear and give you the basics. It was very useful for me.

Thank you, Steve. 👍 This Lesson will help me to relearn, refresh and improve. 🙏🌷

Great lesson Steve! You helped me tremendously - thanks very much!

Have seen these patterns demonstrated in separate videos and you demonstrated all three together and your instruction method helped me immensely, and I am confident that I can master all three patterns in short order. Also on the last two patterns you are the only instructor who made the rest between the first two bass notes evident to me, thank you very much for the great lesson

I'm 64 and been playing with a pick since age 7... Jeff Beck and Mr. Richie Kotzen ( and of course Both Eric's and Chet to name a few) have made me wanting to move to finger-pickin' ... But you've inspired me to throw away my damn pick and go 100 finger-picking till the day I leave this earth. Thanks Mi Amigo TuboViejo

Appreciate your pacing and clarity. Thanks!

Nice alternative approach Steve. Very helpful to get on the first few rungs of fingerpicking.

Great clear and methodical tutorial. Thanks Steve. 👍

This is such a useful tutorial! Thank you, Steve 😊🎶🎵👍🏼

Thank you very much for this unique tutorial to travis picking variations of patterns. I find it way better than the "classic" approach to separet the thumb first and add the melody fingers afterwards, this makes much more sense and leads faster to real playing. Great job!

Watered the roots instantly Steve, very many thanks (!)

I was searching for the best explained and here it is, thank you!

Thank you Steve. I realize this post is dated but the technique and your explanation are timeless. This provides a great place to start, develop the muscle memory and then integrate in to my playing style.

Excellent tutorial Steve, thank you☺🎸

Nicely explained thank you Steve.