Re: Guitar Question: Starting to Play Fingerstyle?
I invariably start with the Alfred 3 volume Begin/Intermed./Advanced books for any instrument, I remember the one for Fingerstyle guitar being good but it's been a while and I can't find it.
You can play with 4 fingers classical style, 5 fingernails (pinky anchoring half the time and picking the rest) or thumbpick and some # of fingerpicks like Doc Watson, Jorma Kaukonen or BG banjoists.
Whatever you choose, work on the thumb, it has to hold the low end accurately (on banjo it's the high end, and even more noticeable when it's off), and try to make the alternating fingers, T-I-T-I or I-M-I-M sound the same, even tempo and volume and tone. Very tricky.
Another thing I think is important is to try hold the neck high, around 35 plus degrees from horizontal. Clasical players and clawhammer players like Ken Perlman do this for a reason, you hit a t a better angle
Last edited by gtani7; Aug-28-2018 at 12:48am.
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