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What exactly is this guy doing....
I recently discovered Ben Danaher and he is awesome and I love this song but I'm having trouble trying to figure out just exactly how he playing this. It's a fingerstyle style kind of loose strumming and I can't it to sound like his. Thoughts?
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It's obviously quite subtle in terms of dynamics, and he's adding various hammer-ons, etc, in the left hand, and maybe muting some strings sometimes. IOW, although it's loose, it's quite sophisticated and has plenty of skill behind it, a very secure command of time and feel. I.e., you can tell he could play a lot more complicated than this if he wanted.
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I can approximate his sound by pretending to hold a pick and letting the tip of the index finger do most of the work. Looks to me like that's pretty much what he's doing.
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Well . . . he's strumming a guitar Lotsa ways to do it, he's doing it his way. JPR & FwL have summed it up but there's really not a lot to it. He's using simple, tasteful chord ornaments as fills. It definitely is not fingerstyle.
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Not familiar with him; nice song.
I seldom use a pick, even for strumming; have developed a technique similar to what he is doing. He occasionally picks with thumb and index, but mostly "invisible pick" as someone already described it as. To my ear, it is a more organic, satisfying sound than a flat pick delivers. |
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A new one for me. Thanks for sharing. I think this is what strumming should be. That relaxed style that comes from your own hand and your own feel, impossible to copy, but easy for the player.
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