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Originally Posted by lowrider
Question for all of you finger-style converts. Did you go completely over to the dark side or do you still play with a pick?
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I play many songs with a flatpick and fingers. I saw John Denver and Michael Murphey doing on the Johnny Carson Show, then saw John Fogerty playing leads that way.
You convert your thumb and index finger holding the pick into the alternating bass thumb pattern, and use your middle and ring fingers to pick melody notes on the trebles.
That way you can switch between strumming/flatpicking/fingerpicking seamlessly.
I will also wrap my index finger around the base of my thumbpick and convert it into a flatpicking tool.
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