Right hand pattern on D major

Here's an example of a typical accompaniment pattern.

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The good thing about a pattern on the chord of D major is that the thumb bass notes are close to the notes played by the fingers.

This makes learning the pattern slightly easier than if the G chord was chosen, then you would alternate sring six with string four.

Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar

The fingerstyle discussion on this blog is mainly about folk and vocal accompaniment styles of playing. With a few riffs thrown in for good measure (pardon the pun), we'll examine some of the popular finger patterns that are regularly used and chords that are really useful for the added extras.

One of the main features of folk guitar fingerstyle is the use of the thumb. It operates rather like a bass guitar, often playing alternate notes of the first and fifth (or tonic and dominant) degrees of each chord.