The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154500   Message #3626207
Posted By: Musket
15-May-14 - 05:54 AM
Thread Name: fingerpicking guitar
Subject: RE: fingerpicking guitar
Good point Tattie Bogle. Thinking on, I have a number of songs like that.

Plus, my "default" style is thumb pick and hammering the strings with 2nd & 3rd finger, neither strumming nor strictly speaking picking. I'm aware of finger picking being popular in folk as it isn't drowning out acoustically the words of the song. Unlike many other genres, the words generally have more prominence. I am not taken with the idea that finger picking is real folk and other styles not so. When I go to a Show of Hands concert, I don't berate them for not being someone else's definition.....



In earlier post, that's "rearing" not "reading."   iPad for sale. One foul mouthed user from new.