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 stylistic subset; 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. For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... We dont have an article called Flatpicking Start this article Search for Flatpicking in. ... Various guitar picks A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a stringed instrument. ... A strum is the act of brushing ones fingers over (strumming) the strings of a string instrument such as a guitar. ... To produce an artificial harmonic, a stringed instrument player (such as a guitarist) holds down a note on the neck with the left hand, thereby shortening the vibrational length of the string, uses a finger to lightly touch a point on the string that is an integer divisor of its... Hammer-on is a stringed instrument playing technique performed (especially on guitar) by sharply bringing a fretting-hand finger down on the fingerboard behind a fret, causing a note to sound. ... A pull-off is a stringed-instrument playing technique performed (usually on an electric guitar) by pulling a fretting finger off the fingerboard. ...

Because it refers both to a means of making music and the music thus produced, fingerstyle is best understood as both a technique and as a key element in musical genres.

Fingerstyle as technique

Because notes are struck by individual digits rather than the hand working as a single unit, fingerstyle playing allows the guitarist to perform several musical elements simultaneously. One definition of the technique has been put forward by the Toronto (Canada) Fingerstyle Guitar Association:

Physically, “Fingerstyle” refers to using each of the right hand fingers independently in order to play the multiple parts of a musical arrangement that would normally be played by several band members. Bass, harmonic accompaniment, melody, and percussion can all be played simultaneously when playing Fingerstyle.[1]

Fingerstyle musical genres

In the most general sense, "fingerstyle" applies to all guitar music in which a plectrum is not employed. However, as this would encompass classical guitar, flamenco guitar and several other distinct styles of play, the term is commonly understood to designate not a technique but a range of musical genres and sub-genres, most often performed on the steel-string acoustic guitar. Of these, one general classification is into two broad groups: Fingerpicking, or rhythmically-based music, and melodic fingerstyle, in which tone coloration and orchestral effects are paramount. A classical guitar, also called a Spanish guitar, is a musical instrument from the family of musical instruments called chordophones. ... A flamenco guitar is a type of guitar, built for the purpose of playing Flamenco music. ...

Fingerpicking

"Fingerpicking" (also called "thumb picking", "alternating bass" or "pattern picking") is a term that is used to describe both a playing style and a genre of music. It falls under the "fingerstyle" heading because it is plucked by the fingers, but it is generally used to play a specific type of folk, country-jazz and/or blues music. In this technique, the thumb maintains a steady rhythm, usually playing "alternating bass" patterns on the lower three strings, while the index, or index and middle fingers pick out melody and fill-in notes on the high strings. Pattern picking is the use of preset right-hand pattern[s] while fingerpicking on a guitar (the left hand voicing traditional chords). ...

The style originated in the late 1800s and early 1900s, as Southern African American blues guitarists tried to imitate the popular ragtime piano music of the day, with the guitarist's thumb functioning as the pianist's left hand, and the other fingers functioning as the right hand. The first recorded examples were by players such as Blind Blake, Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Minnie and Mississippi John Hurt. Some early blues players such as Blind Willie Johnson and Tampa Red added slide guitar techniques. Fingerpicking was soon taken up by Country and Western artists such as Sam McGee, Ike Everly (father of The Everly Brothers) and Merle Travis. Later Chet Atkins further developed the style. “Blues music” redirects here. ... Look up ragtime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... Blind Blake Blind Blake (born Arthur Blake, circa 1893, Jacksonville, Florida; died: circa 1933) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. ... Big Bill Broonzy (1893 or 1898-1958) was a prolific United States composer, recorder and performer of blues songs. ... Memphis Minnie McCoy (born June 3, 1897 - died August 6, 1973) was an American Blues musician. ... Mississippi John Smith Hurt (March 8, 1892 , Teoc, Carroll County, Mississippi - November 2, 1966, Grenada, Mississippi) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. ... The only known photograph of Blind Willie Johnson Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945) was an African-American singer and guitarist whose music straddled the border between blues and spirituals. ... Tampa Red (1904-1981), born Hudson Woodbridge, was an influential American musician. ... Example of a bottleneck, with fingerpicks and resonator guitar. ... Country music, once known as Country and Western music, is a popular musical form developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues. ... The Cremation of Sam McGee is the most famous of Robert W. Services poems. ... Phil (left) and Don in 1962 The Everly Brothers, (Don Everly, born Isaac Donald Everly February 1, 1937, Brownie, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, Phil Everly, born Phillip Everly, January 19, 1939, Chicago, Illinois) are male siblings who were top-selling country-influenced rock and roll performers, best known for their steel... Merle Travis (November 29, 1917 - October 20, 1983) is an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician. ... Chet Atkins Chester Burton Chet Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001) was an influential guitarist and record producer. ...

Most fingerpickers use acoustic guitars, but some, including Merle Travis often played on hollow-body electrics.[2] Merle Travis (November 29, 1917 - October 20, 1983) is an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician. ...

Classical guitar fingerstyle

A wide range of musical styles are able to be played on the classical guitar. The major feature of classical fingerstyle technique is that it has evolved to enable solo rendition of harmony and polyphonic music in much the same manner as the piano can. The classical guitar excels in such performance and allows a high degree of control over the musical dynamics, texture, volume and timbral characteristics of the guitar. The history of the classical guitar dates back to the middle ages. Its repertoire includes Renaissance music, baroque and later musical styles. A classical guitar, also called a Spanish guitar, is a musical instrument from the family of musical instruments called chordophones. ... Harmony is the use and study of pitch simultaneity, and therefore chords, actual or implied, in music. ... In music, the word texture is often used in a rather vague way in reference to the overall sound of a piece of music. ... For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... A classical guitar, also called a Spanish guitar, is a musical instrument from the family of musical instruments called chordophones. ... The history of the classical guitar and its repertoire span over four centuries, including its ancestry the baroque guitar. ... Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 to 1600. ... For other uses, see Baroque (disambiguation). ...

Fingerstyle jazz guitar

The unaccompanied guitar in jazz is often played in chord-melody style, where the guitarist plays a series of chords with the melody line on top. True fingerstyle jazz guitar, without the use of a plectrum, dates back to players like Eddie Lang (1902-1933) and Carl Kress (1907-1965), but the style did not really fully develop before the invention of the electric guitar. George van Eps (1913-1998) was revered for his polyphonic solo guitar playing, and Joe Pass (1929-1994) truly popularized fingerstyle solo jazz guitar improvisation in his later years. Ted Greene and Lenny Breau were other masters. Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) was a jazz guitarist, considered by many the finest of his era. ... In music, the word texture is often used in a rather vague way in reference to the overall sound of a piece of music. ... Joe Pass (born Joseph Anthony Passalaqua, January 13, 1929, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, died May 23, 1994, Los Angeles, California), was a jazz guitarist. ...

Today, fingerstyle jazz guitar has several proponents, from Martin Taylor to the pianistic Jeff Linsky, who freely improvises polyphonically while employing a classical guitar technique. Earl Klugh has also recorded several fingerstyle jazz projects on the solo guitar. British guitarist Martin Taylor is one of the most highly regarded guitarists in the world. ... Jeff Linsky (born 1952) is an American guitarist who has achieved a rare level of improvisational freedom on the solo guitar. ... Earl Klugh (born September 16, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American smooth jazz/jazz fusion guitarist and composer. ...

An important factor that influences the unique sound of this style is that most jazz fingerstylists play in all keys^{[citation needed]}, unlike folk, classical and flamenco players who favor keys that provide open strings—C, G, D, A and E (or these same chord formations in other keys with the aid of a capo). A capo (short for capotasto, Italian for head of fretboard) is a device used for shortening the strings, and hence raising the pitch, of a stringed instrument such as a guitar, mandolin or banjo. ...

Travis picking

This style is commonly played on steel string acoustic guitars. Pattern picking is the use of "preset right-hand pattern[s]" while fingerpicking, with the left hand fingering standard chords.^[1] Typical fingering for a second inversion C major chord on a guitar. ...

The most common pattern, sometimes named Travis picking after Merle Travis, is as follows: Merle Travis (November 29, 1917 - October 20, 1983) is an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician. ...

 M I T M T I T M I T M T I T T T 

The thumb (T) alternates between bass notes, often on two different strings, while the index (I) and middle (M) fingers alternate between two treble notes, usually on two different strings, most often the second and first. Using this pattern on a C major chord is as follows in notation and tablature: Bass (IPA: [], rhyming with face), when used as an adjective, describes tones of low frequency or range. ... Treble is a term applied in music to the high or acute part of the musical system, as opposed to the bass, the lower or grave part. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Example of numeric vihuela tablature from the book Orphenica Lyra by Miguel de Fuenllana (1554). ...

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (872x196, 7 KB)Pattern picking not actually used by Merle Travis. ...

Travis' own playing was much more complicated and not limited to patterns.

American primitive guitar

American primitive guitar or American Primitivism is a subset of 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, open G, drop D and open C. American Primitivism is the guitar music genre started by John Fahey in the late 1950s. ... John Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string guitar as a solo instrument. ... Leo Kottke (born on 11 September 1945 in Athens, Georgia, USA, North America) is an acoustic guitarist. ... Takoma Records was a record label which was acquired by Fantasy Records. ... In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English: obstinate) is a motif or phrase which is persistently repeated at the same pitch. ... A scordatura (literally Italian for mistuning) is an alternate tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument. ... Open D tuning is an open tuning for the acoustic or electric guitar. ... In guitar playing, an open tuning is one where the strings are tuned so that a chord is achieved without fretting, or pressing any of the strings. ... Dropped D tuning: DADGBe, also known as simply as Drop D, is a guitar tuning style in which the lowest (sixth) string is tuned down a whole tone (dropped) to D rather than E as in standard tuning (EADGBe). ... Open C Tuning is an open tuning for guitar. ...

Ragtime guitar

As mentioned above, fingerpicking was probably originally inspired by ragtime piano. In the 1960s a new generation of guitarists returned to these roots and began to transcribe piano tunes for solo guitar. One of the best known and most talented of these players was Dave Van Ronk who arranged St. Louis Tickle for solo guitar. In 1971 guitarists David Laibman and Eric Schoenberg arranged and recorded Scott Joplin rags and other complex piano arrangements for the LP The New Ragtime Guitar on Folkways Records. This was followed by a Stefan Grossman method book with the same title. A year later Grossman and Ed Denson founded Kicking Mule Records a company that recorded scores of LPs of solo ragtime guitar by artists including Grossman, Ton van Bergeyk, Leo Wijnkamp, Duck Baker, Peter Finger, Lasse Johansson and Dale Miller. One of today's top ragtime stylists is Craig Ventresco, who is best known for playing on the soundtracks of various Terry Zwigoff movies. Look up ragtime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... Dave Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was a folk singer born in Brooklyn, New York, who settled in Greenwich Village, New York City, and was nicknamed the Mayor of MacDougal Street. ... Scott Joplin Scott Joplin (born between June 1867 and January 1868[1]; died April 1, 1917) was an American musician and composer of ragtime music. ... Folkways Records is a record label founded by Moses Asch. ... Stefan Grossman is a New York guitarist. ... Kicking Mule Records was a record label which was acquired by Fantasy Records. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Kicking Mule Records. ... Terry Zwigoff (born 1948 in Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American filmmaker based in San Francisco. ...

"New Age" fingerstyle

In 1976, William Ackerman started Windham Hill Records, which carried on the Takoma tradition of original compositions on solo steel string guitar. However, instead of the folk and blues oriented music of Takoma, including Fahey's American primitive guitar, the early Windham Hill artists (and others influenced by them) abandoned the steady alternating or monotonic bass in favor of sweet flowing arpeggios and flamenco-inspired percussive techniques. The label's best selling artist George Winston and others used a similar approach on piano. This music was generally pacific, accessible and expressionistic. Eventually, this music acquired the label of "New Age", apropos its widespread use as background music at bookstores, spas and other New Age businesses. The designation has stuck, though it wasn't a term coined by the company itself. William Ackerman is a musician specializing in acoustic-based instrumental music. ... Windham Hill Records is a record company, founded in the 1976 by guitarist and carpenter William Ackerman and his then-wife Anne Robinson. ... Takoma Records was a record label which was acquired by Fantasy Records. ... Playing a steel-string guitar without a pick (fingerpicking). ... This article will be merged with Italian musical terms at some point in the near future. ... Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre. ... George Winston (born 1949) is an American pianist who was born in Michigan, and grew up in Miles City, Montana. ... New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ...

Celtic guitar

The guitar does not appear to have had any major role in Celtic music prior to the mid-twentieth century, when it began to be used by folk groups such as the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem to accompany popular Irish pub songs. By the 1960's, folk musicians from the British Isles such as Davey Graham, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, and Martin Carthy were arranging and playing fingerstyle accompaniments to traditional Celtic songs, often tuning their guitars D-A-D-G-A-D (low to high).^[2] By the 1970s, some of these players, along with the French-Algerian Pierre Bensusan and Americans such as Duck Baker, Eric Schoenberg, Glenn Weiser, and Ken Perlman were arranging solo guitar versions of Celtic dance tunes, slow airs, bagpipe music, and harp pieces by Turlough O'Carolan and earlier harper-composers. Both Perlman and Weiser eventually published many of their arrangements in books which are still in print. Since then, many other players, including El McMeen, Pat Kirtley, David Surrette, Steve Baughman, have recorded Celtic fingerstyle guitar CDs. The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem from left to right: Tom, Pat, Liam, and Tommy Makem The Clancy Brothers were an Irish folk music singing group, most popular in the 1960s, who are often credited with popularizing Irish traditional music in the United States. ... David Michael Gordon Graham, known as Davey Graham (originally Davy Graham), b. ... Herbert Jansch (born 3 November 1943[1]), known as Bert Jansch, is a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. ... John Renbourn (born August 8, 1944, Marylebone, North London, England) is a British guitarist and songwriter. ... Martin Carthy (born May 21, 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring later artists such as Bob Dylan and Richard Thompson since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk... Pierre Bensusan is a French- Algerian guitarist. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Kicking Mule Records. ... Eric Schoenberg is an American guitarist known for his fingerstyle guitar playing, as well as a recording artist and designer of acoustic guitars. ... Turlough OCarolan (Irish name Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin, 1670 - March 25, 1738) was a blind, itinerant Irish harper and composer whose great fame is due to his gifts for composition and verse. ... Pat Kirtley is a famous American fingerstyle guitarist. ...

Given the enormous size of the body of Celtic music (the Irish Department of Education alone has collected over 11,000 traditional Irish tunes), much clearly remains to be done in terms of arranging and recording these melodies for guitar.

Slack-key guitar

Slack-key guitar is a fingerpicked style that originated in Hawaii. The English term is a translation of the Hawaiian kī hō‘alu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key." Slack key is nearly always played in open or altered tunings--the most common tuning is G-major (DGDGBD), called "taropatch," though there is a family of major-seventh tunings called "wahine" (Hawaiian for "woman"), as well as tunings designed to get particular effects. Slack-key guitar is a style of music originating in Hawaii using an acoustic guitar fingerpicking style. ... Official language(s) English, Hawaiian Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Area  Ranked 43rd  - Total 10,931 sq mi (29,311 km²)  - Width n/a miles (n/a km)  - Length 1,522 miles (2,450 km)  - % water 41. ...

Basic slack key style, like mainland folk-based fingerstyle, establishes an alternating bass pattern with the thumb and plays the melody line with the fingers on the higher strings. The repertory is rooted in traditional, post-Contact Hawaiian song and dance, but since 1946 (when the first commercial slack key recordings were made) the style has expanded, and some contemporary compositions have a distinctly New Age sound. New Age music is a style of music originally associated with some New Age beliefs. ...

Slack key's older generation included Gabby Pahinui, Leonard Kwan, Sonny Chillingworth, Atta Isaacs, and Raymond Kāne. Prominent contemporary players include Keola Beamer, his brother Kapono Beamer, Ledward Kaapana, Dennis Kamakahi, John Keawe, Ozzie Kotani, George Kuo, Peter Moon, and Cyril Pahinui Charles Philip Gabby or Pops Pahinui (April 22, 1921 - October 13, 1980) was a slack-key guitarist. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy one of the guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia on one of the following topics: If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand the article to establish its notability, citing reliable sources. ... Edwin Bradfield Liloa Sonny Chillingworth was a slack-key guitar player from Hawaii and is widely regarded as one of the most influential slack key guitarists in history. ... Keola Beamer (born Keolamaikalani Breckenridge Beamer) is a Hawaiian slack-key guitar player, best known as the composer of Honolulu City Lights and an innovative musician who fused Hawaiian roots and contemporary music. ... Ledward Kaapana was a Hawaiian musician, a player best known for the slack key guitar who also plays steel guitar, ukulele, autoharp and bass guitar, and is a renowned falsetto singer. ... Rev. ... John Keawe is a Hawaiian musician and slack key guitar player from Hawi in the North Kohala district of the Big Island of Hawaii. ... Ozzie Kotani is a slack-key guitar player and a well-respected teacher, arranger, solo performer and accompanist. ... Peter Moon is the co-author and editor of the series of a series of books revolving around The Montauk Project. The first in the series is titled The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time released in June of 1992. ...

Percussive fingerstyle

"Percussive picking" is an emerging term for a style incorporating sharp attacks on the strings, as well as hitting the strings and guitar top with the hand for percussive effect. Flamenco guitarists have been using these techniques for years but the greater resistance of steel strings made a similar approach difficult in fingerstyle until the use of pickups on acoustic guitars became common in the early 1970s. Michael Hedges began to use percussive techniques in the early 1980s. Current percussive fingerstylists include Preston Reed, Kaki King, Justin King, Erik Mongrain, Phil Keaggy and Andy McKee. Flamenco is a Spanish musical genre. ... Michael Hedges 1953-1997 Michael Hedges (December 31, 1953 – December 2, 1997) was an American acoustic guitarist born in Enid, Oklahoma. ... Preston Reed (born?) is an American acoustic guitar player and composer. ... Kaki King is an American guitarist from Marietta, Georgia. ... Justin King is a self-taught guitarist, renowned for his percussive acoustic style which mixes elements of Flamenco, Jazz, Celtic, Classical, African, Mainstream and Rock Music. ... Erik Mongrain is a Canadian composer and guitarist, best known for his use of a two-handed tapping technique on the acoustic guitar. ... Phil Keaggy (born March 23, 1951 in Youngstown, Ohio[1]) is a guitarist and vocalist. ... Andy McKee during a 2007 concert This article is about the guitarist Andy McKee. ...

See also

• Hybrid picking

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Well-known fingerstyle players

Fingerstyle playing, as a technique, is a common stylistic element in the repertoire of many guitarists. However, some musicians have achieved prominence by specializing, often to the point of exclusivity, in fingerstyle composition and performance. Such musicians are largely solo performers, emphasizing the polyphonic capabilities of a single guitar, rather than playing in an ensemble.

The following musicians primarily use fingerstyle playing, rather than other methods (flat-picking, strumming, etc.) of playing guitar.

• Will Ackerman
• Muriel Anderson
• Chet Atkins
• Duck Baker
• Robbie Basho
• Pierre Bensusan
• Trace Bundy
• Alex de Grassi
• Pat Donohue
• Nick Drake
• Bruce Dunlap
• Tommy Emmanuel
• John Fahey
• Edward Gerhard
• Stefan Grossman
• Michael Hedges
• Mississippi John Hurt
• Pete Huttlinger
• Laurence Juber
• Nico Kasanda
• Jorma Kaukonen
• Phil Keaggy
• Kaki King
• Mark Knopfler
• Leo Kottke
• Robby Krieger
• Peter Lang
• Andy Mckee
• Billy McLaughlin
• Erik Mongrain
• Jean Bosco Mwenda
• Preston Reed
• Jacques Stotzem
• Don Ross
• Martin Taylor
• Merle Travis
• Brooks Williams
• Nokie Edwards

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References

1. ^ Traum, Happy (1974). Fingerpicking Styles For Guitar. Oak Publications. ISBN 0-8256-0005-7. 
2. ^ See Colin Harper, Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival, Chapter 4 (Bloomsbury Books, 2001, ISBN 0-7475-5330-0)

External links

• Travis Picking Deconstructed - The Basics Explained
• Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar
• Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine (online features and resources)
• Eric Lugosch's Fingerstyle Academy
• Celtic Guitar Page by Glenn Weiser
• Fingerstyle Guitar - free space (including music files) and promotion for fingerstyle guitarists.

External videos

• WigglyDigits - A fingerstyle tutorial site
• Fingerpicking basics
• 6 Fingerpicking Patterns