Chord picking exercises

1. How do you pick a chord?
2. What should I practice for fingerstyle guitar?

How do you pick a chord?

Make an A chord and play the 5th string with your thumb followed by the 4th string with your index finger, 3rd string with your middle finger and 2nd string with your ring finger. Play this over and over again until you get a nice smooth rolling action going with your thumb and fingers on your picking hand.

What should I practice for fingerstyle guitar?

The 6 Essential Fingerpicking Guitar Exercises

1. Walking fingers on open strings: Walking fingers on simple C Major Scale: ...
2. Basic string crossing on open strings: String crossing across string sets: ...
3. Two fingers fingerpicking exercise on open strings: ...
4. Three fingers simultaneously: ...
5. Four fingers simultaneously: