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Originally Posted by JonPR
You mean you agree with his opinion.  (See earlier posts)
The sensible view (IMO!) is that "fingerstyle" and "fingerpicking" are two terms for the exact same thing: playing the guitar with your fingers.
"Fingerstyle" sounds more formal, I guess. I don't suppose I'd describe Segovia as a "fingerpicker" - although in one sense he obviously was. 
I do think, however, there are two distinct "fingerstyles" - "classical" on the one hand and "folk-blues" on the other. The right hand picks the strings in both cases, of course. A lot of the techniques and disciplines are the same, but there are enough differences to make them different styles of playing.
There is overlap between the two, and most "fingerstyle" musicians can do either - on either type of guitar.
And you often get what I'd call "classical" techniques employed in pop/rock/folk/blues genres. But rarely vice versa. |
It isn't really an opinion... there's plenty of literature on it. Fingerstyle is a genre of music, finger picking is a technique. Fingerstyle guitar includes a lot of techniques like tapping and finger picking. It's kind of like the square and rectangle deal