finger picking
Guitarists' right-hand technique
Finger picking is a guitar technique where individual strings are plucked directly with the fingertips or fingernails rather than strummed with a pick.
The style allows for intricate patterns where the thumb handles bass notes while other fingers play melody and harmony simultaneously: She learned finger picking from old blues records.
The technique is central to folk, bluegrass, and classical guitar traditions.
- fingerstylePlucking strings directly
- acousticRelating to sound
- guitarFretted stringed instrument
- solo guitarOne guitarist, no ensemble
- pluckingRemoving by tugging
strings · steel strings · folk · folk revival · banjo · classical · thumb · arpeggios · nylon · fretboard · open tuning · melody · bass notes · bluegrass · delicate · gentle touch · intricate · pattern
- Bluegrassbanjo, mandolin, fiddle, dobro, flatpicking
- folk musicfolk, folk music, folk songs, folk ballads, folk ballad