Questions tagged [fingerstyle-guitar]
Guitar technique where the thumb and fingers are used to play the strings instead of a pick or plectrum.
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Fingerstyle - dead notes percussive technique help
Currently learning fingerstyle (acoustic), and learning "set fire to the rain (Adele)" by sungha jung.
Here is a link to the video of the song being played:
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how to read guitar tabs finger style [closed]
I have recently started learning guitar and would like to learn to read the tabs mentioned in this video, I have tried searching on the internet but couldn't find a helpful resource.
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Guitar tab symbol
Below are the first two measures from Adele's "Easy on Me".
What does the symbol on the top right of 2 mean in both the bars in the picture above?
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How to restart my guitar studies from scratch?
I have being playing the guitar for quiet a while now(12+ years but more dormant years within this). I am able to deduce guitar tabs of a given song on my own(mostly with some minor errors). I have ...
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Which fingering to use for this section of a song
I can’t figure out the best fingering for this part of Sound of Silence. What should I do?
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How do I play a crossed note before a hammer-on?
The tab below is from Stop this Train - John Mayer
How am I suppose to play the part circled in red?
Also what is the correct name for this notation?
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Artificial harmonics extra sound
I’ll repeat what I’ve already said in the last few posts of mine: I am a complete beginner in the fingerstyle guitar technique, and have absolutely no experience or any skills in this field. I am just ...
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Fingerpicking right hand beginner problems [duplicate]
I just started to try self-learn fingerpicking. I know absolutely nothing about it, but can play some beginner tunes with flat picking.
When I try to position the right hand as told in the YouTube ...
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Ring finger picking fingerstyle problems
I’m a beginner…like I know absolutely nothing about fingerstyle. I can play somewhat beginner level flatpicking. Now when I tried to fingerpick for the first time ever by copying YouTube artists’ ...
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Classical guitar technique problems with leaning ring finger [duplicate]
I've recently started guitar lessons with a local tutor. He's lent me his classical guitar — and ok I'm only two or three days in — but my ring finger on my left fret hand leans towards the middle ...
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How or What to Practice to Get Consistent?
This might seem like a strange question. I've read a lot of books about deliberate practice and the history of music pedagogy, and I'm still a bit puzzled by this:
How do I get more consistent?
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Slap and strum technique question
I am trying to learn Bella Ciao arranged by Rodrigo Yukio. How do you play when a part requires you play slap and strum at the same time? (See the image below) Do you use:
only the index finger?
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Guitar Fingerstyle "Unravel" pluck or strum?
I'm struggling at a certain part of Eddie van der Meer's arrangement of "Unravel" (timestamped at 1:20) for fingerstyle guitar. You can also find it at 1:32 in this tutorial.
It requires to ...
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When arranging/transcribing a song, how do know what chords are being played? [duplicate]
I'd like to arrange a song that doesn't have or has little guitar onto fingerstyle guitar. Finding individual notes is tedious but simple, but how do you find chords, especially when it's not even the ...
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Can I injure my hands by typing or playing guitar too much?
I have been playing fingerstyle guitar for a year now, and I play on average at least an hour daily.
I am also a full time software engineer, so I type a lot.
At the end of the day my fingers hurt ...
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How to make a custom tuning for fingerstyle guitar
Kent nishimura, i rarely see him used standard tuning.
I want to know how does he get his Tuning for the songs he is arranging, i dont need to know how he arrange his songs since that seems to be ...
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Claw-like gloves to simulate pick when playing fingerstyle?
I am wondering if clawed gloves would be able to reproduce the sound of a pick when playing fingerstlye.
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Playing fingerstyle guitar without regular picks or fingerpicks, an answer to rmedaug [closed]
About 10 years ago I just stopped using flat picks altogether, I kept dropping them while playing. I've tried using finger picks as an alternative, and I can never find a set that actually stay on my ...
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Doing big stretch with pinky on guitar
I was wondering about how some guitarists can reach some pretty big stretch between their ring finger and their pinky finger.
We can clearly see they have a big gap between their ring and their pinky ...
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How should the percussion on an Acoustic guitar be played in the song "Californication"?
I've seen this arrangement for "Californication" (guitar fingerstyle). I'm don't know how to thumb slap well, but I'd like to understand how the slap works here.
For example, look at the ...
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My fingers are hurting so much [duplicate]
I recently purchased a beginner guitar. I’m learning chords and my fingers are hurting so much. I’ve watched videos and they say not to push so hard but if I don’t push hard then the chord gives a ...
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How would you finger this arpeggio on guitar?
What would be your approach for right-hand-fingering this arpeggio pattern with classical guitar or fingerstyle technique (no pick)?
I've tried out several approaches, being this one the most ...
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Do I have to learn chords?
I've only had a guitar for 4 days now. I have been playing it for 3 to 3-and-a-half hours a day because I'm having a lot of fun.
I know nothing about music theory but I'm just following tabs.
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Methods and exercises to get better at Travis Picking
After years of wanting to, I finally some time getting the Travis Picking pattern into my fingers. It's still new, so I'm not nearly as proficient as I am with, for example, my forward roll.
The ...
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Index finger picking problem on an acoustic guitar
I have been practicing guitar for around 2.5 years now and I have been bugged with a certain problem for a long time. Occasionally when I pick a string using ONLY my index finger, the guitar emits a ...
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Fingerstyle: what's the angle I should use for plucking?
Do I pluck with 45 or 90 (strictly across the string) degree angle? I'm talking about plucking, not placement.
Google shows various results of 45 and 90 and not all of them are strictly plucking, some ...
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How do I read the music when there are more beats in bar than the time signature specifies [duplicate]
I am a beginner and have encountered the following tab/sheet music notes. It is in the 3/4 time signature, but it clearly shows more than 3 quarter notes in a bar. I am stumped on how to read and play ...
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Cannot stretch my ring and middle finger away from each other when playing guitar
I cant move my ring finger and middle finger away from each other, either when I play guitar or when I dont play guitar. For example, I cannot to the Vulcan salute, if I try to move it all my fingers ...
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Recommended thumb position and motion when using a thumbpick on an acoustic guitar
I'm looking for specific best practices around hand position and motion while using a thumbpick on an acoustic guitar. I haven't found any specific resources on this. I have been impressed with Troy ...
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How can I improve bass lines with fingerstyle guitar playing?
I have been learning fingerstyle guitar for a while and I can properly play songs with simple bass lines, but now I arrived to some songs with more difficult bass lines that don't sort of follow the ...
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What should I learn after learning open and barre chord shapes if I want to learn fingerstyle guitar?
At present I can play most of the chords (I still struggle transitioning from open to barre chord in short amount of time though) and can do basic fingerpicking. However my fingerpicking is very rigid ...
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How to improve finger style guitar playing
I am a competent, but not amazing, guitar player who is very comfortable with the usual chords as well as basic fingerpicking patterns. I would like to take it to the next level and be able to ...
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Classical Guitar I and M alternation
I am practising piece Asturia, in this piece we have to play Open B string after every base note (Opening Section).
For open B string we have to alternate between our M and I finger
My Problem : I ...
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Is this slide made unnecessarily hard?
Sliding from 3 to 5 and then hitting 2? Do I need to stretch my hands that much? Or is this made unnecessarily hard?
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Alternating between Fingers
I am learning some classical guitar songs came to know about this rule :
If two notes or more notes are on the same string so they are played with M, I,in that order.
So My question is if play in ...
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FingerStyle Right Hand Pinky Position
I am learning fingerstyle guitar and was bit confused about my Right hand pinky finger, where it should rest ?
I have seen guitarist some rest on the guitar body while other keep the pinky stretch ...
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What's the reasoning behind discouraging the use of the pinky finger by some schools of finger-style guitar?
We've had related discussions twice:
Fingers to use while playing finger-style guitar
Fingerpicking with my pinky finger
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Em in fingerstyling, is it different?
I am fairly new to guitar, and I've been learning the basic chords for a month and so now, and I came across this yesterday, when trying to learn a song.
It says it starts with an E minor, but that ...
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Guitar that can pick up body percussion, and what a guitar needs to do it
Recently I bought an Ovation guitar, after seeing some videos of people using it for percussive guitar playing, for example
here, or here. Even talking "how sensitive and well-suited it is for this ...
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What technique is Eddie Van Der Meer using?
In his cover of neon genesis evangelon opening, he does something throughout the song at 0:21 and other times throughout the verse. It sounds almost like a thumb slap but doing just a thumb slap ...
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Help Recording fingerstyle guitar over original song
So I play fingerstyle guitar but I can't really sing that well. So I want to record my fingerstyle playing along with the voice from the original song in the background cause otherwise it sounds too ...
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Finger Picking Chords - Beats per bar
When one is playing a 4/4 tune "finger picking style"
(Thumb base note, Index 3 string, Middle 2nd string and ring finger 1st string) (Not coincidentally 4 "actions/picks")
My question is:
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Fingerpicking Barre chords: What bass string to use?
When finger picking open chords one is supposed to do Thumb - bass string (root string), Index - third string, Ring - second string etc.
The bass string used should be the "root" of the note. e.g. If ...
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Composing on guitar - Fingerstyle vs Classical
I'm wondering about the difference in the process of composing a song for a Fingerstyle Guitar vs what would be considered a Classical guitar piece.
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Should open strings on guitar be tuned to the key of the song played?
As an example, the key of G is played alot due to the guitar’s default tuning of EADGBE. In the context of fingerstyle/chord-melody guitar it’s nice to be able to drone on open strings that are in the ...
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How do you stop your hands from tensing when performing solo acoustic guitar?
I've been playing guitar for around 12 years or so, but never played in front of others while learning (minus family members or friends on occasion). Recently, I convinced myself to finally start ...
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What technique is Sungha Jung using in this video?
In his cover of Secret Base - Anohana during the chorus at 1:25 he makes a loud twang-y(?) bass note noise that overall gives the composition a really nice sound. Im wondering what hes doing and ...
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What does a P above the tab mean in guitar tablature?
Currently working on learning Secret Base (arr. by sungha jung) and the tabs have a P over the chord. I dont know if this means palm mute or what because its not a pull-off.
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Tremolo on ukulele pick or fingers?
I saw a few vids on tremolo on ukulele. I like tremolo on uke because the strings are so spread out. But from the videos I watched, some use one finger, some use two fingers, and some use a pick. I'm ...
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Guessing the chord by notes
Most of the time I can figure out what chord is being played by just seeing the notes. I do this by looking at the first note (note in which I feel the chord is changed) when I think the chord changed,...
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