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  2. Scruggs style - Wikipedia

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    Banjo, "standard roll patterns", on G major chord: Play forward ⓘ (above), Play backward ⓘ, Play mixed ⓘ, and Play forward-reverse ⓘ. [1] [3]Beginning with his first recordings with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, and later with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, Earl Scruggs introduced a vocabulary of "licks", short musical phrases that are reused in many ...

  3. Guitar picking - Wikipedia

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    Fingerpicking guitar. A pick isn’t necessary. It is easier to play non-adjacent strings at the same time, or immediately consecutively. It is easier to play polyphonically, with separate musical lines, or separate melody, harmony and bass.

  4. Classical guitar technique - Wikipedia

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    Ease of fingering. Beginners learn the open, first position before anything else and might be more comfortable registering notes on open strings in the first position. Advanced players might find solutions in higher positions based on musical expression or using a shift on a string as a guide.

  5. Carter Family picking - Wikipedia

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    Carter Family picking, also known as the thumb brush, the Carter lick, the church lick, or the Carter scratch, [2] is a style of fingerstyle guitar named after Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family. It is a distinctive style of rhythm guitar in which the melody is played on the bass strings, usually low E, A, and D while rhythm strumming ...

  6. Sweep picking - Wikipedia

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    Sweep picking is a guitar-playing technique.When sweep picking, the guitarist plays single notes on consecutive strings with a 'sweeping' motion of the pick, while using the fretting hand to produce a specific series of notes that are fast and fluid in sound.

  7. Fingerstyle guitar - Wikipedia

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    Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar or bass guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (plucking individual notes with a single plectrum, commonly called a "pick"). The term "fingerstyle" is something of a misnomer, since it is present ...

  8. Method (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, a method is a kind of textbook for a specified musical instrument or a selected problem of playing a certain instrument.. A method usually contains fingering charts or tablatures, etc., scales and numerous different exercises, sometimes also simple etudes, in different keys, in ascending order as to difficulty (= in methodical progression) or with a focus on isolated aspects like ...

  9. Flatpicking - Wikipedia

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    Guitar strum, with down and up strums indicated Play ⓘ. Flatpicking (or simply picking) is the technique of striking the strings of a guitar with a pick (also called a plectrum) held between the thumb and one or two fingers.