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Old 01-02-2022, 04:51 AM
Robin, Wales Robin, Wales is offline
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Originally Posted by 12barBill View Post
That's pretty much exactly how I think of it.

Finger picking as a pattern style, often as picking a pattern from chords accompanying singing a song.

Fingerstyle as playing a composition.
Yep, that was where I started out with this thread.

It has been fascinating to read all the responses, some of the historical perspectives, and folks feelings on the matter.

I wonder if "pattern pickers" who sing and the more melodic fingerstyle players fall roughly in to two camps who view the flat top acoustic guitar from fundamentally different perspectives and are likely to make very different choices about their instrument selection?
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I'm learning to flatpick and fingerpick guitar to accompany songs.

I've played and studied traditional noter/drone mountain dulcimer for many years. And I used to play dobro in a bluegrass band.



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