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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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