After playing for decades, I just started learning to finger pick within the last year. Whether with picks or without picks it felt so totally foreign to me that I decided to go through that process with fingerpicks, given how much trouble people who learn without them seem to have playing with them. Now I'm almost a year into it, not very good, but a lot better than I was when I started, and playing with them feels quite natural. But when I try to play without them, I feels largely clumsy and I can't generate even moderate volume. I'm not performing for anyone, just play for myself and occasionally whoever is around, but I still like to be able to hear what I'm playing well, and I can't playing with bare fingers. Maybe someday I'll try to play without them for a couple of weeks, because I'd love to be able to do this with bare fingers. But I'm not gonna try growing my nails out, so it would have to just be with the flesh of my thumb and fingers.
So, for now, and having learned this way, WITH...
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