Use the strumming rhythm with the chord progression and chord diagrams to play the strumming exercise. Then for the fingerpicking exercise you will need to follow the tab and play the exercise using all 4 fingers. Holding the suggested chords down won’t help much with this exercise but the chords above the tab will fit if someone else plays those along with the fingerpicking pattern.

The strumming pattern for each chord is Down, Down Up, Up Down Up. D DU UDU.

Intermediate players could play the barre chord F on the right instead of the easier F.

This chord progression of G F C G is could be in the key of C, where I IV and V are C F and G (V IV I V), or it could be in the key of G where the 7th diatonic chord is flattened to a major chord, and the chord progression would be I bVII IV I.

This exercise sheet is from a 21 page pdf ebook called Beginners Guitar Chords, Rhythms & Fingerpicking Exercises – 2025 Edition.