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Originally Posted by Nimiety
Not that I'm any good...and I'm not being humble, I'm being objective, but my learning to sing while strumming has had a huge positive impact on my overall "musicality".
I don't find it difficult...but I don't think I could sing while fingerpicking, or anything more complicated than basic strumming. I would need to be really focused on where my fingers were going to do that, for every note versus every bar or so.
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This is basically me also. First off, I'm a terrible singer and merely OK guitarist. I'm learning fingerpicking right now and I can't even imagine myself singing and fingerpicking at the same time. But strumming (with a little bit of fill-in picking / arpeggiating) and singing comes pretty naturally. I don't remember if it always did - I'm sure it didn't, but from the time I had the basic cowboy chords down, I remember being able to sing and play fairly simple stuff without much trouble. And I guess I just picked up more complex stuff as I went.
But if I have any strength as an acoustic guitarist, it's probably being able to just feel my way to strum my way through a song pretty naturally, and that helps me be able to sing with it. I'll never sing well, but I'll never stop doing it because I enjoy it immensely. And to whatever level I can sing on a given day, I think I do it a bit better when I'm playing.
-Ray