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    Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar or bass guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached...
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    as Marcin, is a Polish percussive fingerstyle guitarist, composer, and producer. He is known for combining fingerstyle, percussive guitar techniques with...
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  • Piedmont blues (also known as East Coast, or Southeastern blues) refers primarily to a guitar style, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach...
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  • melody to a song. A variation of fingerstyle is "percussive fingerstyle," where guitarists combine traditional fingerstyle with rhythmic taps or hits on...
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  • plectrums known as fingerpicks (for techniques collectively known as fingerstyle) A plectrum held between thumb and one finger, supplemented by the free...
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    In classical guitar, the right hand is developed in such a way that it can sustain two, three, and four voice harmonies while also paying special attention...
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    the Carter lick, the church lick, or the Carter scratch, is a style of fingerstyle guitar named after Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family. It is a distinctive...
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    Mike Dawes (category Fingerstyle guitarists)
    Mike Dawes (born 21 July 1989) is an English fingerstyle guitar player known for composing, arranging, and performing multiple parts simultaneously on...
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    James Taylor (category American fingerstyle guitarists)
    James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A six-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock...
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  • Gabriella Quevedo (category Fingerstyle guitarists)
    began playing guitar at age twelve, quickly discovering, and mastering fingerstyle guitar techniques, which led to her recording a number of covers of other...
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    Spanish guitar is often played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive fingerstyle technique where each string is plucked individually by the player's fingers...
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    utilize a technique with more precise string group targeting (such as a fingerstyle or fingerpick technique) to pluck all the strings on a stringed instrument...
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  • Al Petteway (category American fingerstyle guitarists)
    Petteway was an American guitarist known primarily for his acoustic fingerstyle work both as a soloist and with well-known folk artists such as Amy White...
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    baritone guitar with Vulfpeck side project, The Fearless Flyers. Numerous fingerstyle guitarists use baritone guitars, including Andy McKee, Don Ross, Martin...
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    Paul Simon (category American fingerstyle guitarists)
    Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter known both for his solo work and his collaboration with Art Garfunkel. He...
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    George Harrison (category Fingerstyle guitarists)
    George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist...
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    Trace Bundy (category American fingerstyle guitarists)
    Acoustic Guitar magazine, and came in third in the same magazine's "Best Fingerstyle Guitarist of the Year" category. In 2005 Bundy discovered a finger-picking...
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    John Fahey (musician) (category American fingerstyle guitarists)
    (/ˈfeɪhi/ FAY-hee; February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as...
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  • is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and...
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    Mark Knopfler (category Fingerstyle guitarists)
    Randy Newman. Described by Classic Rock as a virtuoso, Knopfler is a fingerstyle guitarist and was ranked 27th on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest...
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    Alder, or Don Alder, (born in Vancouver, BC, Canada) is a Canadian fingerstyle guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and speaker. He spent his early...
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    He used these on the 2011 Mirrorball tour. Savage never has been a fingerstyle bassist, relying entirely on a plectrum, or "pick". In an interview with...
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    come from the more common (bare fingers with or without fingernails) fingerstyle techniques. Tone wise, they are the most similar to standard guitar picks...
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    Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union Genres Classical guitar Romani music fingerstyle guitar Occupation(s) Musician Instrument(s) Guitar flute Years active...
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    volume, acoustic instruments, and no drummer. He recruited acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Jon Mark and flautist-saxophonist Johnny Almond. Mark was best...
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  • Truby released an acoustic driven vocal album called Our Time Here a fingerstyle album with songs featuring artist Phil Keaggy. Truby's instrumental,...
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    American primitive guitar is a fingerstyle guitar music genre, developed by the American guitarist John Fahey in the late 1950s. While the term "American...
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    Adrian Legg (category Fingerstyle guitarists)
    and his fingerstyle picking technique has been acknowledged by the readers of Guitar Player who voted Legg the "best acoustic fingerstyle" player four...
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  • Circuit and Sons of Admirals. Andy McKee United States Andy McKee A fingerstyle guitarist who was formerly signed to the United States-American record...
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    Raffi (category Fingerstyle guitarists)
    Raffi Cavoukian CM OBC (Armenian: Րաֆֆի, born July 8, 1948), known professionally by the mononym Raffi, is an Armenian-Canadian singer-lyricist and author...
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