Fingerstyle Guitar
Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, finger-nails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to flatpicking (picking individual notes with a single plectrum called a flatpick) or strumming all the strings of the instrument in chords.
The term is often used synonymously with fingerpicking. Music arranged for fingerstyle playing can include chords, arpeggios and other elements such as artificial harmonics, hammering on and pulling off with the fretting hand, using the body of the guitar percussively, and many other techniques.
Physically, “Fingerstyle” refers to using each of the right (or left) hand fingers independently in order to play the multiple parts of a musical arrangement that would normally be played by several band members. Bass, harmonic accompaniment, melody, and percussion can all be played simultaneously when playing Fingerstyle.
Finger Style Guitar Tutorials
Getting Started
Fingerstyle Guitar Technique
Travis Picking
Slack Key
Percussive Fingerstyle
More Fingerstyle
“Desperado” fingerstyle exercise
“Fire And Rain” by James Taylor
Finger Picking Tab
In Power Tab format. You can open these files with the power-tab editor. You can download it at this site:
http://www.power-tab.net
Basic Finger Picking Exercises
Popular Finger Picking Songs
Dust In The Wind by Kansas Intro