Sorry if this is too far afield of the original request, but I saw in Acoustic Guitar mag a recommendation to change the feel of fingerpicking by playing the first base note on the fourth string and then the next on the 5/6.
The author, David Hamburger, said Rev Gary and Van Ronk regularly used the technique - has anybody tried this as a way to vary finger-picking tedium?   If so, does it work better on some types of songs than others?
I've been trying it, but it is quite a synaptical effort, at least for a Sadurday afternoon.

Chris

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