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As a fellow hair-splitter, I agree!  |
Well, I don’t consider myself a hair-splitter. I like learning about the guitar and its history, but I don’t care much for bickering.
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...he had a particularly idiosyncratic technique, using just the index finger.
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Are you saying that was unusual at the time and unique to him?
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How else would you describe classical guitar technique?
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I would call it classical guitar technique. I didn’t say anything about it because it has nothing to do with what’s being discussed.
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Secondly, the non-classical technique is at least 100 years old, in American blues and folk music. It may have developed in the late 19th century, and certainly existed once recordings began.
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Yes, but, on those old recordings, they played with just the thumb and a finger or two. Are there many (any?) from the first half of the 20th century in which the guitarist plays with more than that?
I use all five fingers (little finger only for strumming). The finger I use the most is the thumb and, after that, the index or the middle.