Fingerpicking Patterns That Sound Harder Than They Are (And the One That Doesn’t)
Every few months somebody at a gig asks me to show them “that fancy fingerpicking thing” and points at my right hand like it’s doing something complicated. Most of the time it isn’t. The myth I want to knock down is the idea that impressive-sounding fingerstyle comes from your fingers moving fast or doing something intricate. It doesn’t. It comes almost entirely from what your thumb is doing while your fingers do almost nothing. I learned this the slow way, playing bar gigs for twenty-some … Read the article
