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Blues guitar, which has its origins in the honky tonks, shotgun houses, and weathered front porches of the Mississippi Delta, went on to have a profound impact on many other styles of music.

Some of the most well known guitarists of our time, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Stevie Ray Vaughn (to name a few), all admit to being heavily influenced in the early days by the blues masters.

Fingerstyle guitar is one of the more difficult styles of guitar to master. The term does not necessarily refer to a genre of music but more a way of playing the guitar. Fingerstyle guitar method usually involves very intricate finger work on the fret board of the guitar. However, the main thing that makes it fingerstyle is actually the way that the strings are plucked. Fingerstyle techniques involve finger picking or plucking the strings of the guitar with the fingers instead of with a pick (strumming or plucking with a pick is known as flat picking). It requires a lot of dexterity in the fingers and a lot of practice to master the techniques.

How To Play The Guitar – Finger Picking

Fingerstyle guitar is used in many genres of music. When playing fingerstyle guitar the right hand is usually hovered over the strings with the fingers barely touching their assigned strings. The thumb is used to play the sixth through fourth strings which is usually the bass sound of the chord. The index finger then rests just below the third string, the middle finger just below the second string and the ring finger just below the first string. Keeping the hand positioned in this way allows the guitarist to play each string individually when it needs to be played. An accomplished fingerstyle guitarist can play very intricate and complicated guitar riffs with this technique.

A fingerstyle guitarist often uses what is known as a picking pattern.This is basically exactly what it sounds like. It is an ordered pattern of picking that is played and then repeated. It is usually associated with a particular rhythm and time of the music. If you listen to a lot of softer songs with the acoustic guitar playing then you have probably heard a picking pattern. A picking pattern is used in most acoustic music when it is being picked out rather than strummed.

Learning Fingerstyle Guitar – Picking Pattern

There are many positions patterns and exercises that can help you to learn fingerstyle guitar.One technique used in fingerstyle is the alternating bass. This is one of the most widely used techniques and creates an effect from the guitar that actually can sometimes make it sound like there are two guitars being played as opposed to just one.The reason for this is that the guitarist simultaneously plays the bass guitars part while maintaining the playing of its own part of the music. This is done by alternating the bass note that is being played by the thumb.The thumb will switch back and forth each time it plays.

The main thing to remember when trying to learn to play Fingerstyle guitar is simply to relax. Take a moment to make sure your right playing hand is relaxed and does not get overly tensed. This can often happen without you even realizing it simply because your muscles are not used to playing guitar in this way yet. As always make sure you are seated comfortably at the edge of your chair holding the guitar properly in your hands. Then simply choose a picking pattern to try and play consistently with your right hand and don’t even worry about your left hand at first. You can even make up a pattern as long as it is a consistent pattern that repeats anything will work just so that you are training your right hands fingers to work individually. Go ahead and try it out and see how you do.

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Below a short description from Wikipedia about the technique Fingerstyle

Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (picking individual notes with a single plectrum called a flatpick) or strumming all the strings of the instrument in chords.

The term is often used synonymously with fingerpicking, although fingerpicking can also refer to a specific tradition of folk, blues and country guitar playing in the US. See below.

Music arranged for 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. Fingerpicking is the standard technique on the classical or nylon string guitar, but is considered more of an unusual or specialised technique on steel string guitars – Source: Wikipedia

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