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These pages
are dedicated to the art of Fingerstyle Guitar.
If you're new to Fingerstyle Guitar, read the
Wikipedia definitions below. You are also invite to
read the essays "American
Fingerstyle Guitar" by John Schroeter and "The
Guitar Place" by Will Schmid to understand why Fingerstyle
Guitar is growing in popularity.
On this
site you will find an ever growing collection of
Articles,
Reviews, and Interviews. There is also special pages
with reviews of
Fingerstyle
Books and
Videos.
The
Open Tuning Reference is a popular section and has a lot
of great information, including tips for composing your own
music. There is an extensive collection of
Frequently
Asked Guitar Questions and a
Fingerstyle
Guitar Forum where you are invited to post your comments
or questions.
You will
also find some quality guitar
compositions
and arrangements that are exclusively for Fingerstyle Guitar
players. There
is also a page of
Guitar Player
Jokes (all in good fun!) and lots of selected
Guitar Links.
Fingerstyle Defined:
Fingerpicking,
or playing fingerstyle,
is a technique for playing the guitar, or some other stringed
instrument using the fingertips and/or fingernails, rather than
with a plectrum (or "pick"). It is used for classical guitar,
and some other acoustic styles, but it has found its way into
other genres as well.
Wikipedia
American
Fingerstyle Defined:
American
fingerstyle guitar is
a style of fingerpicking. It includes elements of blues, ragtime,
country, gospel, jazz, and many regional music traditions.
American fingerstyle guitar is
commonly played on steel string acoustic guitars with 6 or 12
strings. While it is played on just about every type of guitar,
these are most common and characteristic. Music arranged for
American fingerstyle playing can include chords, arpeggios and
other elements such as artificial harmonics, hammering on and
pulling off with the fretting hand, using the body of the guitar
percussively, and many other techniques.
Though not commonly used today,
the term "Travis picking" was once widely understood to describe
the common style of alternating-bass fingerpicking used by American
fingerpickers from the 1950s into the 1970s, after the great
country guitarist and songwriter Merle Travis.
American primitive
guitar defined:
American primitive guitar
is a subset of American fingerstyle guitar. It originated with
John Fahey, whose first record album Blind Joe Death
(1959) inspired many guitarists such as Leo Kottke, who made
his debut recording of 6 and 12 String Guitar on Fahey's
Takoma label in 1969. American primitive guitar can be characterized
by the use of folk music or folk-like material, driving alternating-bass
fingerpicking with a good deal of repetitious ostinato
patterns, and the use of alternative tunings (scordatura)
such as open D and drop D
Wikipedia
A brief History of the Steel String Guitar
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