Fingerstyle Guitar — Week 3 — Day 16

Builds on: Day 15; Day 9’s six-note flow.

Good for: thumb independence in embryo — the thumb keeps its own pulse while fingers speak between. This is the doorway to Phase 2.

Pattern: p – i – p – m – p – a, six notes per bar. Thumb stays on the chord’s root string for now — it alternates in time, not yet across strings.

• Warmup — 2 min
• Establish (3 min): C only — thumb even as a clock, fingers fill between
• Vary (3 min): Am, then Dm — thumb home changes (S-5 → S-4), pulse doesn’t
• Integrate (3 min): rotate C – Am – Dm, one bar each
• Cooldown (3 min): close your eyes, listen only to the thumb — is it steady?
• Fretboard +5 min — D (day 3/3, graduate)