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08-11-2020, 06:36 PM
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In actual tunes you may end up needing to use various fingers or thumb on various strings.
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08-12-2020, 05:41 AM
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Of course there are some great players use less than 3 but they are great, your chances of being great are slim. Since that is true in my opinion you can use any number of strings you want. I learned thumb and 3 and find it helps my lack of talent so thats what Im recommending. I float my hand above the strings as the classical players do but most anchor. That probably is easier to learn as I didnt do it that way I dont know so again do what you want.
Travis picking which is alternating with muffled bass strings isnt the way Travis played. What Travis players play can go back to blues players or if your playing modern tunes it would go back to Chet Atkins who modified what Travis was doing. The name Travis picking is just an accident of history. I learned Deep River blues or maybe it was Freight train first by watching a guy at school. Then I took classical lessons and then a Chet tune and then Mark Hansen books to other books. I like books cause I dont learn well by ear. Ive been playing a lot of years and can now play most anything but I have a repertoire that I like so I stick to that. This week I am going to be relearning a tune I stopped playing that had been in my repertoire before I got sick.
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08-12-2020, 10:26 AM
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