But taking a wider view, fingerstyle encompasses a huge range of musical styles-classical, flamenco, jazz, folk, world music, and beyond-all bound together by a fundamentally similar technique.
Just as the term flatpicking often implies a certain musical style and not just the technique of using a pick, fingerstyle sometimes brings to mind a specific genre of instrumental guitar. The ability to leverage individual fingers allows guitarists to play multiple parts at once, with separate bass lines, melodies, and accompaniment, often leading those who first hear a fingerstyle recording to think they are hearing more than one guitar. Johnson was of course conjuring up the sound of simultaneous rhythm and lead guitars by playing fingerstyle.įingerstyle guitar is a technique that uses the thumb and fingers to sound individual strings instead of relying on a pick. Keith Richards has said that when he first heard the solo recordings of famed bluesman Robert Johnson, his first question was “Who’s that?” and his second was, “Who’s that other guy playing with him?” But there was no other player. From the November/December 2021 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Doug Young
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