Playing fingerstyle on an electric guitar or steel string acoustic can be a very different experience than on a classical guitar. If you use nails you need to keep them in prime condition and steel strings can sure be tough on nails! In this class I’ll demonstrate which techniques have personally worked for me though years of experimentation in various playing situations. The material presented is also applicable to acoustic steel string guitarists and the jazz nylon string player.
For most guitarists playing single note lines on an electric is frustrating because it’s hard to equal the tone, conviction and swing of an expertly flat-picked line. But it can be done and can often give a fuller sound than a flatpick possibly with more tonal variation and nuances. The class will address many issues: principals in achieving a full sound before plugging into an amp, ideal free stroke angles, muting techniques, all things nail; nail lengths, nail shapes, filing etc, left hand slurs, right hand one finger sweeps, discussion of string gauges and types, alternating index and middle, alternating index and ring, using the same finger to play 2 and 3 consecutive notes between slurs, pattern picking, and more. Written examples accompany the video that further clarify the right hand fingerstyle picking techniques applied to distinct musical phrases. In the examples the left hand notation is also given to show the optimal positions that make the lines swing, project and yield a horn-like phrasing and articulation that can only occur when both hands are in sync and balanced. Fingerstyle guitar can add another dimension to your electric playing by expanding the variety of textures and adding counterpoint much more easily. Join me for a fun and informative class on fingerstyle electric guitar techniques.
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Knopfler is famous for his “pinching” style of playing the guitar with his fingers. He pinches, or “claws, ” the strings mainly between his thumb and index finger and, sometimes, he goes full-on Wes Montgomery and plucks all the strings with only his thumb.
The more traditional fingerstyle is to play the three wound strings, the bass strings, with your thumb and the three treble strings with your index, middle and annular (ring) fingers. Your pinky finger can steady the rest of your hand from the pickguard, or just float in space. Traditionalists prefer floating. Almost every fingerstyle electric guitarist I’ve seen play, plants the pinky on the pickguard.
Andy at Pro Guitar Shop is a YouTube favorite of mine, and here is Andy demonstrating his unique way of playing an electric guitar with only his fingers:
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I recently decided to toss my Dunlop Ultex pick — for now — and concentrate on playing all my guitars with only my fingers. It has been a difficult transition from striking strings with a pick to only plucking them with my fingers, but I am taking it slowly, and I am being methodical and rigid, and I am slowly finding a whole new “voice” in my fingers I never knew existed.
There are two things I find difficult about playing with only my fingers. The first is consistency of sound. My index finger always plucks the “G” string like a pro on a reliable basis while my annular finger tends to variety pluck — sometimes the sound is too soft and oftentimes it is too loud. I am working on getting my thumb and three fingers to use the same attack for a similar voicing, and that will take some time, because I need to create muscle memory for my right hand.
The second thing that stumps me is how to strum — play more than four strings at a time — without having to use a pick. I am using only the fleshy pads of my fingertips and thumbs. I don’t want my nails playing any role in plucking a string. That fingernail sound replicates the tone of a guitar pick to my ear, and I want a totally new tone based on my skin and not my nails.
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Mark Knopfler just uses his thumb to strum, and sometimes he flicks his three fingers across the strings and the nails replace the pick.
Andy at Pro Guitar Shop pinches his thumb and index finger together as if they are holding a pick — but they are not — and on the downstroke his index fingernail strikes the strings and on the upstroke, his thumbnail strikes the strings. That makes an interesting sound, but I don’t want risking that kind of damage to my fingernails.
Strumming, to my ear, is an individual string sounding mashed together in a multiplicity of strings — it sounds muddy — and I much prefer to “strum” by simultaneously plucking four strings only because those unison plucks create a piano sound, but with a woody guitar coloring, and the harmonics ring out just a little more interestingly.
Fingerstyle Vs. Pick: The Pros And Cons Explained
The trick I have yet to master is knowing WHICH FOUR strings I need to pluck for a strum replacement when a chord has six necessary strings. Do I pick four of the six notes to play, or do I need to do some sort of on-the-fly transcription in my head to find a chord that matches the required notes, but is sounded in only four strings or less?Check out this Valuable Electric Guitar Lesson On Blues Fingerpicking from Guitar Control founder and instructor Claude Johnson. Be sure to click the link for the free tabs to go along with this lesson.
Hey, guys. Claude Johnson here and I want to give you Electric Guitar Lesson on Blues Fingerpicking Technique. I’m actually going to cheat a little bit and use my pick. Now you don’t have to. Here’s the thing. You can use fingerpicking techniques even as you’re holding a pick. I don’t like to give up my pick. I like to play leads and pick fast and do all that cool stuff. So I don’t want to just let go of my pick even if I was like you know playing something very finger picking I can I can use my pick, you’ll get a little bit nicer sound without the pick for that style, that thumb has a nice fleshy feel to it on this bass note, but it’s still gonna be okay. You know it’s one of those things where people won’t notice the difference, but when they hear that tone it’s just going to sound a little bit cooler and it’s kind of like if you were playing with like a really good amp on stage and you know and you swapped it out for one that was okay, you know no one’s gonna say I know they can’t put their finger on it, they just know it sounds a little bit different subconsciously. So anyway but you can use the pick if you want. So instead of showing you patterns again which are in other videos, I kind of want to show you an exercise based on that to kind of give you a little bit more freedom.
So what we’re doing here for Blues Fingerpicking is an alternating bass pattern so this is low G and to the open D. Now notice two things first; I’m kind of doing a little palm muting here and to giving that nice thud sound and also notice that the D note is louder than the G and I’ll exaggerate it a little bit, it doesn’t have to be that exaggerated, but just try to get that really simple pattern going and then here’s the exercise. What you can do so on top of that we’re gonna add like a E pentatonic scale, but we’re going to do one at a time and the whole idea is to keep like the pattern in the lead together, it’s difficult but it can be really cool. So let’s just start with one note, I’m gonna put my ring finger of the low E string third fret, that’s my bass note and then I’m gonna get the pinky on the high E string third fret. So I’ll play that lead note with the G and really important is that even though I’m palm muting the low string, but on the high E string I’m letting that ring over, so it’s kind of like a partial palm mute. That’s kind of the key to playing fingerpicking blues and country blues. So this next note using my first finger and then we’ve got the next string you can certainly do all kinds of things as you get more sophisticated with it. You might change where you
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Mark Knopfler just uses his thumb to strum, and sometimes he flicks his three fingers across the strings and the nails replace the pick.
Andy at Pro Guitar Shop pinches his thumb and index finger together as if they are holding a pick — but they are not — and on the downstroke his index fingernail strikes the strings and on the upstroke, his thumbnail strikes the strings. That makes an interesting sound, but I don’t want risking that kind of damage to my fingernails.
Strumming, to my ear, is an individual string sounding mashed together in a multiplicity of strings — it sounds muddy — and I much prefer to “strum” by simultaneously plucking four strings only because those unison plucks create a piano sound, but with a woody guitar coloring, and the harmonics ring out just a little more interestingly.
Fingerstyle Vs. Pick: The Pros And Cons Explained
The trick I have yet to master is knowing WHICH FOUR strings I need to pluck for a strum replacement when a chord has six necessary strings. Do I pick four of the six notes to play, or do I need to do some sort of on-the-fly transcription in my head to find a chord that matches the required notes, but is sounded in only four strings or less?Check out this Valuable Electric Guitar Lesson On Blues Fingerpicking from Guitar Control founder and instructor Claude Johnson. Be sure to click the link for the free tabs to go along with this lesson.
Hey, guys. Claude Johnson here and I want to give you Electric Guitar Lesson on Blues Fingerpicking Technique. I’m actually going to cheat a little bit and use my pick. Now you don’t have to. Here’s the thing. You can use fingerpicking techniques even as you’re holding a pick. I don’t like to give up my pick. I like to play leads and pick fast and do all that cool stuff. So I don’t want to just let go of my pick even if I was like you know playing something very finger picking I can I can use my pick, you’ll get a little bit nicer sound without the pick for that style, that thumb has a nice fleshy feel to it on this bass note, but it’s still gonna be okay. You know it’s one of those things where people won’t notice the difference, but when they hear that tone it’s just going to sound a little bit cooler and it’s kind of like if you were playing with like a really good amp on stage and you know and you swapped it out for one that was okay, you know no one’s gonna say I know they can’t put their finger on it, they just know it sounds a little bit different subconsciously. So anyway but you can use the pick if you want. So instead of showing you patterns again which are in other videos, I kind of want to show you an exercise based on that to kind of give you a little bit more freedom.
So what we’re doing here for Blues Fingerpicking is an alternating bass pattern so this is low G and to the open D. Now notice two things first; I’m kind of doing a little palm muting here and to giving that nice thud sound and also notice that the D note is louder than the G and I’ll exaggerate it a little bit, it doesn’t have to be that exaggerated, but just try to get that really simple pattern going and then here’s the exercise. What you can do so on top of that we’re gonna add like a E pentatonic scale, but we’re going to do one at a time and the whole idea is to keep like the pattern in the lead together, it’s difficult but it can be really cool. So let’s just start with one note, I’m gonna put my ring finger of the low E string third fret, that’s my bass note and then I’m gonna get the pinky on the high E string third fret. So I’ll play that lead note with the G and really important is that even though I’m palm muting the low string, but on the high E string I’m letting that ring over, so it’s kind of like a partial palm mute. That’s kind of the key to playing fingerpicking blues and country blues. So this next note using my first finger and then we’ve got the next string you can certainly do all kinds of things as you get more sophisticated with it. You might change where you
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