The fingers pluck the strings up while the thumb plucks them down. From this basic position, you’re able to play the three thicker, lower pitched strings with the side of your thumb. Make sure that your fingerstips are pointing slightly upwards like you can see in the image at the start of this blog. Start with placing the first three fingers (so your index, middle, and ring fingers) just under the three, thinnest strings of the guitar. If you’re left-handed, however, the following guide applies to your left hand in the same way. In this case, you pick the strings with your right hand. Here, we’re working with the assumption that you’re right handed.
The Playing Position of Your Right Hand for Fingerstyle If you start learning to play classical guitar pieces or some modern sheet music for fingerstyle guitar, then it’s worth knowing what these letters mean. Generally, the little finger, or pinky finger, is not used, but just in case, it’s indicated by the letter ‘C’, for ‘chiquito’. The thumb is indicated by the letter ‘P’, for ‘pulgar’ the index finger by the letter ‘I’, for ‘indice’ the middle finger by the letter ‘M’, for ‘medio’, and the ring finger by the letter A, standing for ‘anular’. In the classical music tradition, every finger is given its own letter – which stands for its name in Spanish. Plucking the strings with the fingers is also known as fingerpicking, and if playing a classical guitar, rather than a steel-string acoustic guitar, this playing style is even more common. Playing an acoustic guitar with the fingers rather than a plectrum (‘flatpicking’) is much more common than with an electric guitar.
If you’d prefer to just play with a plectrum, then check out our purpose-made plectrum blog. In this blog, I’ll take you through the basics of fingerpicking: which fingers to use and the best playing position, and whether you need to play with your nails or with your fingertips.
Also, you get a much warmer sound out of your guitar. A great advantage of playing in this way is that you can play multiple strings with more precision (plucking is the better word for it). This playing style is also known as ‘fingerstyle’ or ‘fingerpicking’. When playing the guitar without a plectrum, you use your fingers.
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