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08-30-2020, 10:26 AM
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Which fingerstylists should I be copying on Youtube?
Hi,
I'm taking the advice of many of the great ones who say to just play the songs we like and emulate musicians who we admire. There are many fingerstylists (that's what I'm into) on youtube, but many of them one would not want to actually emulate, either technically or musically. Subscriber count doesn't always correlate either. Who are some legitimately good fingerstylists on youtube who one could learn alot from by copying, AND what aspects of their playing should I be taking note of from each person? For example, Daniel Padim has like 30K subscribers and he may well be the finest fingerstylist alive today. I see his stuff and just go, never in five lifetimes, but what could I learn from him? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJg...33TYzGlMxtXNcA Sungha deservedly has 6 million followers, but I struggle with what to learn from him as he just seems not human to me. What are the best parts of his "game" that we mortals can incorporate? Last edited by Lamenramen; 08-30-2020 at 07:47 PM. 
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08-30-2020, 11:20 AM
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The two guitarists you named have pretty highly developed playing styles. Unless you already play well, you should start with older, simpler stuff that you enjoy listening to, and then judge your own playing honestly. Subscriber count should have nothing to do with your choice of who to copy. If you want recommendations, you should tell us what style(s) you want to play.
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08-30-2020, 11:54 AM
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Lindsey Buckingham, Billy Strings,
Start small, and strive for bigness The OP doesn't mention genre of music he is interested, that makes a slight difference who you want to emulate. MGF
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08-30-2020, 11:58 AM
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Billy Strings doing Bob Dylan
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08-30-2020, 11:59 AM
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Here's a selection of past masters in various styles, just to give an idea:
Classical: Andres Segovia Julian Bream John Williams Flamenco Paco de Lucia Paco Pena US country Merle Travis Chet Atkins Jerry Reed Doc Watson US blues Blind Blake Mississippi John Hurt Big Bill Broonzy Blind Boy Fuller Rev Gary Davis Stefan Grossman UK "folk baroque" Davy Graham Bert Jansch John Renbourn Nick Drake Martin Carthy Steel-string acoustic, miscellaneous Clive Carroll John Martyn Tommy Emmanuel John Mayer Duck Baker Kelly Joe Phelps Pierre Bensusan (and the two you mention of course) Tapping / Percussive guitar Michael Hedges Jon Gomm Erik Mongrain There are countless more in each category (and the categories themselves are somewhat debatable), but look up a few on youtube to get an idea. Hopefully you'll be drawn to some more than others. Follow threads, links, other recommendations. The next task is to pick a sample tune you particularly like - ideally one with video as well as audio - and set about learning it note by note. Get some slowdown software to help focus on the audio. Be prepared to work on one tune for weeks, maybe months. You have to love it. Start as slow as you need to. Of course, you don't have to learn a whole tune, if it's just one aspect that excites you, and your aim is to create your own music. For that, just steal anything you like. Naturally you can also work on basic fingerstyle exercises - right and left hands - and it's easy enough to find those anywhere online. All right hand exercises make good practice for any style, but obviously if you are drawn in one direction, look for lessons and exercises in that style.
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"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen. Last edited by JonPR; 08-30-2020 at 12:04 PM.
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08-30-2020, 12:16 PM
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KlFKwY_YgZ4 Last edited by Andyrondack; 08-30-2020 at 12:24 PM.
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08-30-2020, 04:49 PM
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Tuning: CGCGCD - https://www.gtdb.org/tab/canadee-i-o
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"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen.
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08-30-2020, 04:57 PM
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Zappa Torture Never Stops
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08-30-2020, 05:01 PM
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Apostrophe
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08-30-2020, 05:07 PM
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Copy!!! why copy ? Take influences from sure, we all do that, but copying even if possible, would only make you a poor version of someone else .../. but no-one else could be as good as you at playing like you. Find your own path! btw, Billy Strings is playing that piece way too fast - drains all the meaning out of it!
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08-30-2020, 05:26 PM
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Billy Strings is playing the tempo wrong because it's not the original artist playing.
Play a tune like YOU play it and don't worry about sounding like the original artist.  MGF
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#12
08-30-2020, 07:52 PM
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Everyone starts off by copying. Everyone. It's how we learn anything from language to music to math to cooking to programming to parenting.
Eventually, once we've internalized everything we've copied such that it feels totally natural (and most people never get there, including me) we are a mix of everyone we have copied, producing our own original style.
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09-03-2020, 06:56 AM
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09-03-2020, 08:34 AM
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I started finger picking on acoustic a long time ago so I essentially wrote my own book on the subject. There were some practitioners at the time but I did not emulate them. I did it may way and I'm glad I did.
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09-04-2020, 03:19 PM
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