About Fingerpicking

[zbalz]

Lately some of you may know that I've gotten into fingerpicking (fingerstyle...what is the right term?)
Anyway, I was playing around with basic chords today and realized they sound really nice when fingerpicked in different patterns. Then I went online and looked at some different songs related to this style. It seems that the few I looked at were IN FACT based on chords.

So what I am getting at is, are most fingerpicking songs based on chords?

-zbalz

[ghodaddyyo]

You got it. When you get real fancy, you can add melody lines to the fingerpicked chords and create my favorite guitar music - Chord Melodies.

[zbalz]

Yeah I noticed that also...Obviously chords are based on the scale it was originated from...so what I was doing was finding notes within the scale close to the a fret I was currently holding down while appregiating (how is that pronounced?) and mix it in...sounded pretty good.

-zbalz

[ghodaddyyo]

Arpeggio (are-pedg-e-oh) is the root word.