Warm Up Exercise #2

In this exercise, we will learn a pattern called the "Backwards Roll" and we learn what symbols are associated with your right hand.

The following symbols will be at the bottom of the TAB, telling you which finger on your right hand should be used to the play the note.  This will give you an idea about the finger picking pattern being used.

English    Symbol              Spanish
Thumb     p                        Pulgar
Index       i                         Indice
Middle     m                       Medio
Ring         a                       Anular
Pinky       c, x, q, e, a         Menique

In this exercise, we see the pattern of p i m a repeat

We use our thumb p to play the low E string Open
We use our index i to play the G string
We use our middle m to play the B string
We use our ring a to play the Hi-E string

We do not use our right hand pinky in this exercise

[E/1]--0-----------4--------3--------2----------1--------0----------1-------2--------3-------4--
[B/2]-----0-----------0---------0--------0---------0---------0---------0-------0--------0-----0
[G/3]--------0----------0---------0---------0--------0---------0---------0-------0--------0----0
[D/4]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[A/5]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[E/6]-0--------0-----------0--------0----------0--------0----------0--------0---------0-------0-
         p  a m i p a m i    p  a m i p a m i    p a m i p a m i  ......