I certainly understand if you’d like to stop here, I’m getting into the weeds with this blog. So if you’ve ever wondered how we do what we do, and how much time we spend thinking about how we pluck a guitar string, read on.
There are left handed fingerstyle players and they use their left hand to pluck. I’ve discovered that most folks are amazed at how a guitarist’s left hand can fly over the fingerboard contorting every which way to make complicated chords, all the while not realizing that most of the ‘music’ is coming from the right hand, or plucking hand. It’s why when you go to a fingerstyle concert you might hear folk, blues, jazz, celtic, classical, rock, any number of musical genres. The basic definition is that we pluck the strings with our fingers instead of using a plectrum. Most of us don’t play with our feet so aren’t all guitarists fingerstyle? So then, what makes fingerstyle, fingerstyle?
In a style of music known as fingerstyle guitar, which describes how we play rather than what style of music we play, I find it interesting that so little of how we play fingerstyle is understood or known by the general public. So I thought it might be fun and informative to talk about one of the most misunderstood aspects of playing fingerstyle guitar how we pluck the string. And ultimately I want to connect to other guitarists be they songwriters or instrumentalists. I realize that I haven’t written a whole lot about guitar playing lately.
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