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Is anything other than strumming called fingerstyle?
Specifically the jazzy stuff I have learned: the Randy Newman "You've Got a Friend in Me," as done by the dad with his singer, little Claire. And a nice rendition of Lyle Lovett's "She's No Lady," as taught on YouTube by a guy playing a 12-fret hog Martin.
A lot of plucked chords that go thumb then i-m, or i-m-r. This, with some fills. And some church hymns I've learned from Jim Nailon's YouTube channel. A bunch of thumb then pluck, and fills. Is this all called fingerstyle?
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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.
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I play with a flat pick and also with just fingers.
When playing with just fingers I use lots of different techniques including Travis picking, various Arpeggio picking, Clawhammer, strumming with my thumb, up/down strumming with my calloused index finger, and various combinations of all of the above (sometimes in a single musical piece). To me this is both fingerstyle and finger picking. |
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I call it all "guitar playing."
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If you are plucking the strings with the fingers then generally it's called fingerstyle (or fingerpicking). The former sounds like foreplay, the latter like something you do with your nose.
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I distinguish between fingerpicking/fingerstyle and flatpicking/plectrum style. There is alos hybrid picking which involves both a plectrum and fingers. Fingerpicking would also include the use thumpicks and thimbles.
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No. Fingerstyle is a very specific musical composition type. fingerpicking is picking with your fingers.
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I think in the broad sense, fingerstyle is generally just accepted as playing with your fingers. I checked Wikipedia and it says the same thing (it also said fingerpicking was a folk style). So it obviously has different meanings.
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Anyway, why argue the semantics of it? It's all good.
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By who’s determination? If you agree with Fazool, you must also accept his “definition”? No thanks. I’m with Jeff-but I call it “playing guitar”. Lol Mark
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After reading your rebuttal, I questioned my conviction and searched. I can't find many credible references to the etymology of the word but it first appeared in the 1930's and did, in fact, mean just finger-plucking. hmmmmm...... The ironic thing is I often say I play fingerstyle but then amend that to say fingerpicking. I even wrote that originally. Whenever I see a fingerstyle solo artist or song they "always" seem to be the way I wrote it (my definition in my own head). Partly because there were different words (finger-pick, finger-pluck, finger-style) so it made sense to me that they should (must?) have different meanings. I surrender the point and am switching sides. I agree with the majority now that fingerstyle can mean just fingerpicking/plucking/playing.
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Polyphonic music performed using two or more picking hand digits (flatpick counts as a digit in the case of hybrid picking)
abetted in many cases by fretting hand hammer-ons and pull-offs. Various permutations in idioms have been labeled with their own names.
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When picking only with my fingers with little to no strumming, I always distinguish by calling a song where I am playing the melody, rhythm, and bass lines “solo fingerstyle” and when not playing the melody line just “fingerstyle”.
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