Another right hand technique you will need to develop is the picking of three notes together. This is when the right hand fingers pick two treble strings at the same time a bass note is picked. In the following example the i and m fingers play the first two strings at the same time. It is important to pick all strings as evenly as possible so each string has the same volume and tone.
The accompaniment to The Streets of Laredo features the picking of three notes together. This song is in the key of C. As this song is in ^ time a ^ pattern similar to the patterns introduced in examples 26-28 must be applied.