Fingerpicking also referred to as fingerstyle, is one of the many guitar techniques that is incredibly fun to learn. Usually the fingerpicking pattern is also part of the intro of the song which makes the tune easy to recognise.
If you aren’t familiar with fingerpicking yet, you should check out 16 Legendary Fingerpicking Patterns.
Today you can immerse yourself in 20 easy fingerpicking tunes that are all lovely to play. Some are real easy and other a bit more challenging depending on your skill level. I really tried to keep it at beginners level. Make sure you know how to play your basic chords before you dive into this.
Each song title contains a Youtube link. The “Tab” or “Video lesson” will show you how to play the song and “More Tabs” will show you the official transcribed tablature if you’re ready for more tabs of the same artist.
Enjoy!
1 – Everybody hurts – REM – Video lesson – More Tabs
2 – Ain’t no sunshine – Bill Withers – Video lesson
3 – Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley / Leonard Cohen – Video lesson – More Tabs
4 – We’re going to be friends – White stripes – Tabs – More Tabs
5 – Are you with me – Eastin Corbin – Tabs
6 – Wonderful tonight – Eric Clapton – Tabs – More Tabs
7 – Fast car – Tracy Chapman – Tabs
8 – House of the rising sun – The Animals – Tabs – More Tabs
9 – Wherever you will go – The Calling – Tabs
10 – Lost – Anouk – Tabs
11 – Every breath you take – Sting – Tabs – More Tabs
12 – If – Pink Floyd – Tabs – More Tabs
13 – Hey There Delilah – Plain White T’s – Tabs – More Tabs
14 – Behind blue eyes – The Who / Limp bizkit – Tabs – More Tabs
15 – The animals are gone – Damien Rice – Tabs – More Tabs
16 – Wreck of the Day – Anna Nalick – Tabs
17 – No surprises – Radiohead – Tabs – More Tabs
18 – Don’t cry – Guns ‘n Roses – Tabs – More Tabs
19 – Love Yourself – Justin Bieber – Tabs
20 – Fluff – Black Sabbath – Tabs – More Tabs
Do you know any easy fingerpicking songs for beginners, please share them in the comments. I appreciate it!
buddy fong says
October 14, 2016 at 11:52 amwhat about
YESTERDAY
one of my favorites
Klaus Crow says
October 14, 2016 at 2:04 pmHi Buddy,
That’s a great one.
Thanks for sharing!
Best regards,
Klaus Crow
Camryn says
October 17, 2016 at 6:20 pmwe don’t talk anymore by Charlie pith and Selena Gomez is a good one
Klaus Crow says
October 19, 2016 at 5:24 pmHi Camryn,
Indeed, a nice sounding fingerpicking pattern, but I think it’s a little fast for the absolute beginner.
Emma Clark says
November 9, 2016 at 2:27 pmI enjoy to listen Music. I have just started to playing guitar. Thanks for giving a such information for beginners.
michael says
November 22, 2016 at 3:51 amKlaus could you do city of new Orleans finger picking style.. thanks
Zack Rabold says
April 10, 2017 at 5:00 amI think this guy created a whole bunch of accounts and praised him self. Camryn says “I enjoy listen music” no “ing”? What’s up with that?
Ravikant Sharma says
July 8, 2017 at 7:53 amLittle things by Anushka Manchanda..
My all time favourite
Matt says
January 13, 2018 at 10:41 amThanks for the info. Im right at the beginning; still looking for a guitar, and feel inspired reading this.
Appreciate you putting all this info out there
Grobbley says
February 6, 2018 at 11:00 pmThe first song I learned was Blackbird by The Beatles, I found it to be the right amount of challenging as a beginner. I don’t know that I would call it easy, but it’s a song I love and it didn’t take me long to get it down since it has a relatively simple picking pattern.
Maurice Luchtmeijer says
February 14, 2018 at 3:53 pmI realy miss Skin and Bones from the Foo Fighters, an easy and fun song!
Brandon Kelly says
April 17, 2018 at 9:33 amEd Sheeran I see fire is the first song I learnt its pretty easy
robert.nowak.1980@interia.pl says
June 13, 2018 at 10:47 pmNice list
Nicky says
December 14, 2018 at 10:27 pmTry ‘Count On Me’ by Bruno Mars, I have been learning it and I am a beginner.