Hi wombat. You must be an Aussie with a handle like that.
Learn chords. Period. Chords are everything in music, they really are the most important structures and rule setters in any piece of music. Scales are the raw ingredients, the bricks, but chords are the constructs. They actually make music out of the scale notes.
Every chord can be fingerpicked. That really is the essence of fingerpicking: picking a chord's notes separately in a rhythmic pattern, so the more you learn about chords and where to find them, the more you'll be learning about fingerpicking, in a round about way.
I will be adding to these pages, and more finger picking patterns are on the list. Meantime, though, experiment as much as you can with your own variations. Remember, there is no wrong or right in this kind of thing. If it sounds good to your ear, then it has validity. Work on what YOU like the sound of. Music is simply organized noise; your own taste will lead you on to your eventual "sound".
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