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Originally Posted by Brent Hutto
For most people "fingerpicking and fingerstyle [are] interchangeable terms" for alternating bass using fingers rather than a pick.
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IMO, it doesn't even have to be alternating bass.
One of the (many) downsides to the Interwebs is that it encourages extremes of OVERTHINKING, over analysis, and over labeling. Many of us are just not somehow satisfied unless we can quantify and name every possible little thing that we're discussing. Concepts begin to take on a life of their own -- which never existed -- and then the horse is outta the barn and way down the road.
So if "fingerpicking" and "finger style" are each clearly defined terms, distinguishable by some list of objective criteria, then I ask:
"Says who?"
Is there a God or supreme being or prime mover of guitar terms residing somewhere in the ether that I didn't know about? (Insert eye roll emoji...apologies for the snark...)