You have now learned the most important patterns for fingerpicking chord shapes. Fingerstyle guitar can be expanded into accompanying a melody as in the following two classical guitar pieces. If you find this style of playing interesting, see the book Progressive Classical Guitar for more detail.
This piece uses two different picking patterns which are variations of patterns introduced earlier in this book. Bar 7 introduces a new chord Am/C, which is an Am chord with a C bass note. Left hand finger numbers have been placed next to some of the bass notes to indicate the correct fingering.
The fingerpicking pattern for this classical piece is in ( time and uses only the p and m fingers. In ( time there are s ix quarter notes per bar.
Fingerpicking is mostly played on acoustic guitars. If you are playing in public, at some point you will need to amplify your guitar.
The most common way of doing this is to get a pickup fitted to your guitar and plug it into either an acoustic guitar amp, or the PA system used by the singer. There are many pickups available for acoustic guitars and most can be attached for a performance and then removed until required again.
The following piece is an arrangement of a popular classical piano piece. See Progressive Popular Classics of the Great Composers Volumes 1-6 for more pieces like this.