How To Use A Metronome When Fingerpicking The Blues
A reader of How to Practice Guitar and Train Your Creativity recently emailed me asking about how to apply some metronome exercises from my book to Piedmont style fingerpicking (often referred to as Travis Picking).
His Question
Considering your advice below, how would you apply it to songs?
I am learning to fingerpick blues, mostly Piedmont style (often erroneously called “Travis picking”).
The bass alternates between two bottom strings, usually either six and four or five and four, and are almost always quarter notes. Melody notes are on the top three strings, either played as quarter notes by pinches or eighth notes in between the bass notes.