Lick of the Day: James Taylor Style Fingerpicking
Today's free lick of the day is a James Taylor-inspired fingerpicking lick in D.
Today's free Lick of the Day is a James Taylor-style fingerpicking lick demonstrated by Guitar World's Paul Riario.
We'll let Paul take it away for the explanation: "This is a James Taylor-style fingerpicked riff in the key of D. I'm using my thumb to pick the bass notes on the D, A and low E strings and my fingers to pick the notes on the top three strings, mostly the index and middle."
"What I'm basically doing here is holding down a different chord shape in each bar, picking out the notes individually and adding decorative melodic embellishments, using hammer-ons and pull-offs. The goal is to allow all the notes in each bar to ring together. Notice that I hold the last chord in bar 3 and let it ring into bar 4."
"When performing the double-stop hammer-ons and pull-ups within the D chord in bars 4, 9 and 10, make sure the notes on the G and high E strings move together in lock-step fashion."
Be sure to check out Lick of the Day, a free download for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch available at the App Store.
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