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Old 07-31-2020, 02:18 PM
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Learning flat picking for me meant that I would first need to figure out the melody of a fiddle tune. I wasn't familiar with any. In the process I would experiment with tunes melodies that I knew. Simple ones like Amazing Grace etc. Now I can flat pick melodies. If I can hear them I can figure out how to play them. Though it's touched on with flat picking and used more so when learning country blues finger picking learning the major and seventh chord conversions up the neck is a must at some point.
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Old 07-31-2020, 04:46 PM
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I'd like to improve my playing with a pick... something more than just strumming and/or chord appegios ..etc...

So - My question:
How much does learning flatpicking from a bluegrass perspective (which most of it seems to be) help with OTHER genres?

I just purchased, and am awaiting the arrival of, Dan Miller's Flatpicking Essentials to see where it gets me. I've read so many positive reviews of this series.

I like folk/singer/songwriter type music and am not really as much of a bluegrass fan - (but I could see it growing on me).... so I'm hoping it improves my playing skill across other genres....

Any thoughts on that?

Thanks!
While there are genre's that tend to utilize predominantly either flat pick or finger pic, as in say Bluegrass and Classical respectively. And there are some logistical differences BUT


The basic difference between using fingers and using a flat pic is, they are two different methods to vibrate guitar stings .Which has little nothing to do with genre limitations . Either one can be used to play any genre

Platitudes about one or the other, being this or that, are simply personal notions
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Old 07-31-2020, 06:02 PM
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I'd like to improve my playing with a pick... something more than just strumming and/or chord appegios ..etc...

So - My question:
How much does learning flatpicking from a bluegrass perspective (which most of it seems to be) help with OTHER genres?

I just purchased, and am awaiting the arrival of, Dan Miller's Flatpicking Essentials to see where it gets me. I've read so many positive reviews of this series.

I like folk/singer/songwriter type music and am not really as much of a bluegrass fan - (but I could see it growing on me).... so I'm hoping it improves my playing skill across other genres....

Any thoughts on that?

Thanks!
Hi, strange, I was sure I'd already answered this question.

My main style is to flat-pick, but I'm more of melody rhythm, and taking lead breaks, rather than lots of fiddle tunes played note for note.

Please watch some of my videos, maybe like this one : In this time of plague, I've been asked to do zoom meetings, and so have learnt the basics and done a fair few, so if interested, let me know.
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Old 07-31-2020, 07:31 PM
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Hi, strange, I was sure I'd already answered this question.

My main style is to flat-pick, but I'm more of melody rhythm, and taking lead breaks, rather than lots of fiddle tunes played note for note.

Please watch some of my videos, maybe like this one : In this time of plague, I've been asked to do zoom meetings, and so have learnt the basics and done a fair few, so if interested, let me know.

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