Fingerstyle Guitar — Week 1 — Day 2

Day 2 — Flesh tone production (across C · Am · A)

Builds on: Day 1 — the arpeggio runs reliably on all three shapes.
Good for: a warm, even nylon tone + your first rest stroke (apoyando), the future tool for making a melody project. Rotating chords tests your tone on different notes, not one memorized shape.
So for example when you are playing the C on S-5 with your p, the p plugs the S-5 and then rests on S-4. Likewise when you plug S-3 with i, it then rests on S-4. And after you plug S-2 with m, it rests on S-3. But as for the first excercise we do only S-1 with i and m.
You might want to check out this video on YouTube to get more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF7idTF2oZk

• Warmup — 2 min
• Establish tone (3 min): C — find your contact point (pad vs fingertip edge) + follow-through (push into and across the string, not straight out)
• Vary (3 min): same tone work on Am, then A — notice how tone reads on fretted vs open notes
• Rest stroke (3 min): S-1, let the finger land on S-2 — first with m alone, then alternate i-m on repeated notes. Feel it project vs free stroke. (i-m alternation is the engine of the Week 2 scale — seed it now.)
• Cooldown (3 min): Em, listen for even, warm tone