Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    How to make your own fingerpicking arrangements
    How to make your own fingerpicking arrangements
    How to make your own fingerpicking arrangements
    Ebook45 pages18 minutes

    How to make your own fingerpicking arrangements

    By Jesper Kaae

    4.5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Learn how to play melody and chords simultaneously and make your own fingerpicking arrangements. This book will give you some useful guidelines on how to choose the right key and where to place your melody and chords. It will show you how to vary your arrangements in terms of picking patterns, time signature, tonality, harmony, position and more. Pick your favorite melodies or make your own and turn them into nice sounding fingerpicking arrangements.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJesper Kaae
    Release dateApr 17, 2019
    ISBN9788793140103
    How to make your own fingerpicking arrangements

    Read more from Jesper Kaae

    Related to How to make your own fingerpicking arrangements

    Related ebooks

    Music For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      25 Acoustic Songs

      Jul 31, 2020

      25 Acoustic Songs
      12 min read

    • Article

      Learn To Read Music!

      May 5, 2021

      Okay, so we’ve all heard the joke. ‘How do you make a guitarist stop playing? Stick a piece of music in front of him!’ As amusing (or not!) as this may be, it’s true that there are many of us that don’t read music at all. And while this is no great d

      26 min read

    • Article

      Jazz Arpeggio Soloing Pt2

      Oct 19, 2022

      Jazz Arpeggio Soloing Pt2
      3 min read

    • Article

      Substitute Caged Ideas Part 1

      Dec 13, 2023

      LEARNING ALL the chordal and melodic options on the fretboard is alifelong task, and the‘CAGED’system is agreat way of exploring the scales and chords. The premise of CAGED is that there are five shapes that cover all the ways of playing achord. From

      1 min read

    • Article

      200 WAYS To Be A Better Player

      Aug 23, 2019

      While there is much pleasure to be had in owning guitars, which are undeniably beautiful things, nothing will enhance your enjoyment of the instrument more than learning how to play it a little better each day. The clue is in the name: it’s an instru

      44 min read

    • Article

      25 Easy Guitar Lessons

      Dec 20, 2019

      25 Easy Guitar Lessons
      8 min read

    • Article

      Pentatonic Puzzle Pieces

      Aug 27, 2019

      THINK OF A famous rock guitar solo and chances are the minor pentatonic scale lies at its foundation. For many of us, minor pentatonic was the first scale we ever learned to play. But a lot of guitarists rely on only one pattern or position for the s

      8 min read

    • Article

      Jimmy Page Full Style Analysis!

      Dec 18, 2019

      Jimmy Page began his professional career in the early 60s and quickly gained a reputation as a formidable London session guitarist. He appeared, uncredited, on hundreds of hit singles and albums of the top chart bands of the day. In 1966 he joined Je

      4 min read

    • Article

      Minor Pentatonic Riffs

      Oct 26, 2020

      Minor Pentatonic Riffs
      2 min read

    • Article

      No amps allowed! 10 UNPLUGGED GREATS

      Jul 1, 2021

      The acoustic guitar is a beautifully expressive instrument. It’s been used on thousands of hit records in all genres, from country to pop, blues to rock, grunge even hip-hop ( Govan Rascal anyone?). Singer-songwriters armed with a handful of open cho

      6 min read

    • Article

      Session Shenanigans

      Feb 10, 2021

      Session Shenanigans
      3 min read

    • Article

      2020 Guitar Workout

      Jan 21, 2020

      2020 Guitar Workout
      10 min read

    • Article

      Celtic Fingerstyle

      Sep 22, 2021

      Celtic Fingerstyle
      2 min read

    • Article

      50 Licks Of The Legends

      Aug 28, 2019

      Welcome to this giant feature that celebrates issue 300 of Guitar Techniques magazine. I first became a contributor back in issue 137 and couldn’t in my wildest dreams have foreseen enjoying being part of over 150 issues covering many of my favourite

      10 min read

    • Article

      Blues Comping 101

      Jun 30, 2020

      IN A GUITARIST’S life, few things are as fun and gratifying as jamming out on a 12-bar blues progression with a friend, a band or even by yourself. And sure, the soloing part is a blast, but as with many different musical styles, your primary role in

      10 min read

    • Article

      Slash Chords Crash Course

      Aug 25, 2020

      Slash Chords Crash Course
      4 min read

    • Article

      60 Years Of Legato

      Jan 12, 2022

      60 Years Of Legato
      9 min read

    • Article

      Ultimate Sweep Picking

      Aug 26, 2020

      If there was ever a technique that’s both feared and revered, its sweep picking. Sweep picking gets some bad press, and to some it’s written off as nothing more than ‘show boating’, or for playing the soundtrack to Super Mario. But sweep picking has

      10 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Voice Leading

      Oct 22, 2019

      AT THE BEGINNING of every guitarist’s musical journey, you learn a set of open “cowboy” chords and barre chords — a few major, minor and 7th shapes that set you on your way to playing every song in an “easy guitar” songbook. But where do you go after

      9 min read

    • Article

      SUBSTITUTE Hypnotic Riffs

      Oct 20, 2021

      SUBSTITUTE Hypnotic Riffs
      1 min read

    • Article

      DADGAD Tuning Two Celtic pieces

      Apr 8, 2020

      In this lesson I’m going to take a look at a couple of traditional pieces in DADGAD tuning – a tuning that for many is the default when it comes to playing this repertoire. The tuning found its origins in the 1960s via the travels of legendary Britis

      5 min read

    • Article

      Stairway To Acoustic Heaven

      Jul 31, 2020

      Stairway To Acoustic Heaven
      1 min read

    • Article

      Speed Finale

      Jan 15, 2020

      Speed Finale
      3 min read

    • Article

      Hot Country! 30 Great Licks Nashville style...

      May 6, 2020

      Country guitar is one of those styles that turns the heads of guitarists no matter which genre they specialise in. Indeed, when I was a teenage metalhead 30 years ago it was the chicken pickin’ of Zakk Wylde and Steve Morse that drew me to it. Over s

      8 min read

    • Article

      30-minute Lickbag

      Mar 8, 2023

      Brought to you by… This sequence uses two-note diads, on the third and fourth string, to imply a chord progression in A Major. Each one is positioned closely to the neighbouring notes to create smooth voice leading within the phrase and making the pa

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for How to make your own fingerpicking arrangements

    4.5/5

    2 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Breaks down to basics and builds from there. Easy to understand and apply. Knowing what you are playing and the possibilities presented in this book you cam make many arrangements richer.

    Book preview

    How to make your own fingerpicking arrangements - Jesper Kaae

    How to make your own fingerpicking arrangements

    Jesper Kaae

    Sonora Publishing

    Copyright © 2017 Jesper Kaae

    www.jesperkaae.com

    Sonora Publishing

    All rights reserved

    ISBN: 978-87-93140-10-3

    How to make your own fingerpicking arrangements

    Introduction

    General guidelines

    Choosing the right key

    The 5 Rules of thumb

    A basic arrangement

    Variation in key

    Variation in picking patterns

    Variation in time signature

    Variation in voice

    Variation in tonality

    Variation in harmony

    Variation in position

    Twinkle, twinkle little star

    Aura Lee

    Also By

    Introduction

    For guitarists coming from a pop/rock background the guitar is often used for playing either chords or melody but not both at the same time. This book will give you some ideas on how to get started on making your own fingerpicking arrangements where you can play both melody and accompaniment simultaneously. We will use a well-known children's song, Mary had a little lamb, as an example to build a fingerpicking arrangement and look at music theory and options for keys and positions. We will also look at some variations and how you can make a simple melody sound much more interesting.

    Lastly, we combine some of the things from the previous chapters to make new fingerpicking arrangements of two other melodies.

    General guidelines

    All arrangements in this book will be in

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1