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Old 05-05-2009, 06:58 PM
j45dale j45dale is offline
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I don't know where to get any info on learning this style, but I used to see a lot of the old timers using this style when I was a kid.( I'm 56).
I picked it up by watching them, and use it a lot while playing Old-Time tunes by myself. It allows me to strum faster without as as much wrist action.
I drag my thumb down the strings and brush up the strings with my index finger. When finger-picking, I bass thump the top strings and pluck out the tune with my index finger. Its a fun break from flat picking.
To add to the mix, in 2003 I bought a Martin D18AG (Andy Griffith Sig). Its a loud guitar, so on it, this pickless finger style works very well. But to my ear the best Old Time and Piedmont Blues sounds still come out of my Dads, late 40's Gibson L-G2.
It's all good,
Dale.
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