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Originally Posted by Brent Hutto
Interestingly (to me at least) I believe on that "Beeswing" video Richard Thompson is using a flatpick plus two or three fingers in a hybrid picking style.
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Yes, that's his usual technique.
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Originally Posted by Brent Hutto
One of these days in the distant future I'd love to get good enough with my flatpicking to start working with fingers as well.
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Personally, I can't see the point of hybrid picking.
I either play with a pick (strumming, or lead guitar, sometimes combined), or full fingerstyle. Hybrid picking ties up one finger to hold the pick, which I find wasteful, awkward and clumsy.
It's certainly possible to play any hybrid picking tune with normal fingerstyle. The only difference is the thumbnail naturally has a slightly different tone from a pick, and (for me anyway), the hybrid version is more difficult! Another difference would be if the tune contained a substantial amount of strumming, or fast single string alternate picking. But even then I can do that just as easily with thumb and index or middle.
The only advantage I can see of learning hybrid is if (a) you commonly switch between strummed songs, flatpicked and fingerpicked songs, and don't want to drop the pick and pick it up again; and (b) if you can't grow your thumbnail long (and strong) enough. (But then there are thumbpicks...) For me, my thumbnail is good, and switching from pick to fingers when I need to doesn't hold me up.