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Example 7. Acoustic Metal – Nylon-string fingerpicking Metallica’s James Hetfield uses a nylon-string guitar in songs like The Unforgiven and Battery.
Conventional wisdom dictates that a well-written song will stand up even when reduced to simple chords on acoustic guitar. But at some point, we’ve all heard songs in which complex or unusual ...
Guitar skills: Fingerstyle is one of the most brilliantly useful techniques to master. You can use it in all manner of genres and styles, from acoustic folk and country to Jeff Beck and Mark ...
Two-finger technique Travis picking in its simplest form is a two-finger picking style where the thumb switches between two different bass notes. This is usually, but not always, the root or the 5th ...
Allen Van Wert is a guitar teacher, fingerpicking metal virtuoso, and now an A.I. developer who is promising his new program, The Ultimate Picking Program, can identify weaknesses in performance ...
Doyle Dykes is a monument to the country guitar and fingerpicking, in the lineage of his mentor Chet Atkins. Known as the "white wolf" in Nashville, he has played with everyone, and his virtuosity ...
The creator of the new Magic Instruments guitar says it can play anything a real guitar can, but without having to learn the fingerings of a real guitar.
Phil Keaggy is best known for his intricate finger picking and percussive style of acoustic guitar playing. He’s also been known to devote an entire album to instrumental music from time to time ...
Veterans finding peace through playing guitar ST. LOUIS -- Every Monday night, a group of friends in St. Louis pick up their guitars and play -- in an auditorium, in hallways, and even in a ...