Lauren Bateman teaches the Travis picking pattern for Fleetwood Mac's Landslide. She breaks down the eighth-note thumb pattern and shows the five-string chord shapes for the verse progression: C, G, B, A minor, G, B.
An eighth-note Travis picking pattern: 'thumb, thumb one, thumb two, thumb one'.
Strings: 5, 5, 4, 3 and then 5, 2, 4, 3 (played with the thumb/thumb one/thumb two/thumb one pattern).
So this is Landslide by Fleetwood Mac. Now this song is picked and I use what we call or what I was taught was a Travis picking pattern. It's just an eighth note picking pattern. And the pattern is thumb, thumb one, thumb two, thumb one. Okay, so this is a very, very simple pattern. Thumb, thumb one, thumb two, thumb one. Alright, and we're playing the thumb, thumb one. For that C chord. All these are going to be five string chords. It's going to be strings 5, 5, 4, 3 and then 5, 2, 4, 3, thumb, thumb 1, thumb 2, thumb 1. And then we have C to a G, B to A minor, back to G, B. And that's the entire verse. It's just those three chords back and forth. Ready? Here it is. I took my love.
