Finger-Style Guitar is the sixth studio album by American guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1956. The original LP consisted of a light rhythm section...

western guitar music, "I-M-A" is a style of plucking guitar strings, where "I" means index finger, "M" means middle finger, and "A" means ring finger. This...

with his fingers. This style, while unorthodox, was widely regarded as an innovative method for enhancing the warm tone associated with jazz guitar. Montgomery's...

and occasionally sang. Atkins's signature picking style was inspired by Merle Travis. Other major guitar influences were Django Reinhardt, George Barnes...

Canadian Guitar Festival's Fingerstyle Guitar Championship and first place in the 2006 competition. He also placed third at the 2006 International Finger Style...

body, using the bar instead of fingers. Joseph Kekuku developed this manner of playing a guitar, known as "Hawaiian style", about 1890 and the technique...

The classical guitar, also known as Spanish guitar, is a member of the guitar family used in classical music and other styles. An acoustic wooden string...

guitar, vocals George Powell – finger-style guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals Jim Lanham – bass guitar, background vocals John David Call – steel guitar Jim...

playing the guitar in the traditional position (flat against the body) with the use of a slide fitted on one of the guitarist's fingers. The slide may...

name "steel guitar". The device can either be a solid bar which is held in the hand, or a tubular object worn around the player's finger. Instead of pressing...

aired a steady stream of soukous, South African kwela, Congolese finger-style guitar and various kinds of Cuban dance music that heavily influenced emergence...

syncopated Piedmont style fingerpicking with lap-slide guitar. In 2000 and 2003, Flower placed in the top three at the National Finger Style Guitar Championship...

solo performing finger-style guitarist from northern Virginia. She plays several instruments such as the kalimba, harp-guitar, and guitar with the strings...

against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand. A guitar pick may also be used to strike the strings. The sound of the guitar is projected either acoustically...

function is to protect the body of the guitar from the rhythmic finger taps, or golpes. Originally, all guitars were made with wooden tuning pegs that...

plectrum used most commonly for playing Lap steel guitar and bluegrass style banjo music. Hawaiian steel guitar players invented them to gain a more substantial...

tapping skills. Bundy's guitar playing style is percussive and harmonic: he plays with both hands on the fretboard, intricate finger picking arpeggios and...

Tribute Album, (2006) Co-author of the book 20th Century Masters of Finger-Style Guitar, 1982, Stropes Editions, Ltd. Goodwin Raheja, Gloria (June 2002)...

the fretboard. On bass guitars, this is commonly done with the thumb, while on double bass, the edge of the hand or index finger may be used. Popping refers...

guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of...

Guitar picking is a group of hand and finger techniques a guitarist uses to set guitar strings in motion to produce audible notes. These techniques involve...

thumb and metal finger picks on a Twelve-string guitar to better replicate the sound of the piano. Piedmont and ragtime guitar styles also provided a...

slide guitar, Telecaster 6-string guitar, tambourine, mouth percussion Jon Mark – acoustic finger-style guitar Steve Thompson – bass guitar Johnny Almond...

of and topical guide to guitars: A guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a...

Kingsway Hall EZ series, he recorded guitar-band highlife classic music with his melodic and finger-style guitar picking. He was accompanied by the Kumasi...

spelled bar chord) is a type of chord on a guitar or other stringed instrument played by using one finger to press down multiple strings across a single...

name Vestapol refers to an open D Major tuning for the guitar, common in finger-style guitar in country and folk music. Grossman also began to acquire...

guitar, consist of an up-picking motion by the fingers and a down-picking motion by the thumb; this is also the technique used in the Scruggs style for...

mix of roots, folk, and blues using her signature percussive finger-style guitar stylings and soulful vocals. In 2006, Laveaux released the first full-length...

is a guitar finger strumming technique commonly associated with flamenco guitar music. It is also used in classical and other fingerstyle guitar picking...