How I Began to Play Fingerstyle Technique

I love music since my childhood. When my dad brought me a guitar for my birthday, I tried to learn little things about playing it. I did not know much, but I was very interested in the sound of the strings. That small interest led me to join a good guitar class. After a couple of years, I started learning classical guitar style. Through classical guitar, I also learned about fingerstyle technique.

Fingerstyle is a technique. When we listen to music carefully, we can hear many techniques as musicians. Some techniques bring more emotion to the music. In my learning period, I did not always practice properly. Sometimes I was not very serious. I made it more like a nice hobby for myself. But still, I loved playing guitar.

Now I want to tell you how I use it as my hobby. When I have free time, I always stay with my guitar. Sometimes I take my guitar and go to a nice natural place with a calm vibe. Then I try to tell a story to the beautiful view around me using my guitar notes. I always start with one note. I try to play that note for a long time and add my feelings to that one note in different ways. Then I add another note. Now I have two notes with my pure soul. Like this, I take my time and slowly add more and more notes to my feelings.

Sometimes I spend about twenty minutes having a simple conversation with those notes. After that, I am ready to tell something more meaningful to my surroundings. At that time, I create a simple melody according to my mood. Before I said, I used many notes to build my melody. Now it is time to use my fingerstyle technique properly. I add a bass line under my melody. I add harmonic notes and octave notes to make it more full and emotional. That makes my music feel complete.

This is my practice. I like to create and add different things using fingerstyle technique. When I play guitar alone, all the soulful notes must mix together at one time. Because of that, I continue to develop my fingerstyle patterns and improve myself.