What really turns me off with fingerpicking is lack of feeling. I hear far to many focus on technique and strip it of all emotion. You remove the emotion from any music and it is a major turnoff to me. ……

I like to think that I put feeling and emotion into my songs but I am least likely to do that when I'm playing "strum, strum, strum … strum, strum, strum". Lack of feeling and emotion is a turnoff in any style, not just fingerpicking.

When I'm playing a song with a good bit of picking, I'm usually having fun – and if I'm enjoying myself then it's likely that the audience is too.


DC