When the right hand fingering symbols are placed on top of each other it indicates that the notes are played together. Eg.W indicates that the i, m and a fingers play all three notes together.
This pattern occurs once in one bar of ^ time, using quarter notes. Wherever two bars of an A minor chord occur, an alternate bass note (E) is used in the second bar.
This pattern is in * time and uses the same W grouping as the previous pattern. This pattern occurs once in one bar of * time using quarter notes. The thumb plays bass notes on beats 1 and 3. If there is only one chord in the bar, you can play the root note on the first beat and another note of the chord on the third beat. If there are two chords per bar, play the root of each chord, regardless of whether it occurs on the first or third beat of the bar. Try this pattern with the following progressions.