Less is more
I have recently been concentrating on fingerpicking. My timing and precision are improving and becoming more second nature, and I am now particularly focusing on tone and dynamics. With that focus, I am finding myself more and more often returning toward the way I play electric guitar, which is triad focused, seeking particular tones and position, and having little concern about not covering a whole "standard" guitar chord. I have labored under the impression that you needed to play all the strings you could on the acoustic to project the sound, and this is a consideration when strumming, in my opinion. But when fingerpicking I am finding the guitar loses nothing from playing 3 or 4 tone chords, particularly my OM style guitars. I am learning much in light of this realization. Don't you just love the endlessness of learning about the guitar? How else can you have such a fulfilling, satisfying journey to a place you will never reach?
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