G – D/F♯ – Em – C: I – V⁶ – vi – IV in G major. Four chords you can already play. What comes apart at this stage isn't the fretting hand; it's the picking hand. The fingers chase the melody, the thumb starts following the fingers, and the pattern is gone. Every Thread in this post fixes that the same way: each picking finger gets one job and sticks to it, and the music comes out of alternating between them.
That's the current in the title. One loop, played three ways, fingerstyle throughout — no pick anywhere. The texture thins as it goes: four strings, then two, then one.
Thread 1 — Travis Picking (The Thumb Is the Metronome). The thumb alternates between two bass strings on all four beats and never rests, while i and m sit on the G and B strings and stay put through every chord change.
Thread 2 — Triads (Hold the Shape, Pick the Pair). The same four chords, relocated up the neck as movable three-string grips. The fretting hand holds the shape; the picking hand alone makes the pattern, pinching the low pair and then the high pair.
Thread 3 — Lead (One String, Two Fingers). The loop as a single-note melody on the 1st string, i and m taking strict turns, every pitch struck twice so one finger can't quietly take over.
Same four chords each time, same right-hand rule each time, three different amounts of guitar underneath it — so you can work straight through in order or take the Thread that fits the time you've got.
