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  2. 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 ...

  3. Piedmont blues - Wikipedia

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    Piedmont blues (also known as East Coast, or Southeastern blues) refers primarily to a guitar style, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern [1] supports a syncopated melody using the treble strings generally picked with the fore-finger, occasionally others. [2]

  4. Guitar picking - Wikipedia

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    A plectrum held between thumb and one finger, supplemented by the free fingers—called hybrid picking or sometimes "chicken pickin". Using a single thumb pick with the bare fingers is similar to hybrid picking. Another mixed technique is to play different passages with a plectrum or fingerstyle, "palming" the plectrum when not in use. This ...

  5. Hybrid picking - Wikipedia

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    Greg Koch using a hybrid picking style with pick. Hybrid picking involves using a combination of the pick and the fingers. Hold the pick between your thumb and index finger, and use your middle and ring fingers to pluck additional strings...[Generally], pick the bass notes with the pick, and pluck the highe[r] two strings with your middle and ring finger.

  6. 20 iconic rock songs written on the spot - AOL

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    I was humming that line along with this fingerpicking exercise, and 15 minutes later I had a song," he said in a 2019 Guitar World interview. When he played it for his bandmates, they reacted with ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Clawhammer - Wikipedia

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    A common characteristic of clawhammer patterns is the thumb does not pick on the downbeat, as one might in typical fingerpicking patterns for guitar. For example, this is a common, basic 2/4 pattern: A fingerpicked melody quarter note on the downbeat, Other strings strummed with the fingers, for a total of roughly an eighth note starting on the ...