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Old 11-28-2017, 07:15 AM
JonPR JonPR is offline
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Originally Posted by fazool View Post
Originally, the term was for songs specifically where the vocal melody was played simultaneously over the harmony or traditional musical backing.

By that definition, a person cannot sing while playing a fingerstyle song as the point of fingerstyle is to replace the voice with single guitar notes, while also playing the guitar backing part.

As well a song merely plucked with your fingers is not true "fingerstyle" because it is not playing the voice part of the song.
Do you have a source for this definition? Sounds unnecessarily narrow to me.
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