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Did her ad say she was looking for a guitarist? If so, she probably wants a fingerpicking acoustic person, or a hollowbody jazzy style.
If people are vague in their CL ads, I usually don't bother.

GuitarMikeB wrote:Did her ad say she was looking for a guitarist? If so, she probably wants a fingerpicking acoustic person, or a hollowbody jazzy style.
If people are vague in their CL ads, I usually don't bother.

"fingerpicking"??? like merle travis, john fahey, or leo kottke?

(reaches for red pen) ....mike, i guess you mean "fingerstyle".

I've never heard of any guitarist calling it 'fingerstyle'. Ever!

From wiki:
The term "fingerstyle" is something of a misnomer, since it is present in several different genres and styles of music - but mostly, because it involves a completely different technique, not just a "style" of playing, especially for the guitarist's right hand. The term is often used synonymously with fingerpicking, although fingerpicking can also refer to a specific tradition of folk, blues and country guitar playing in the US.

joe pass, lenny breau, earl klugh, howard morgen, and others who play jazz w/o a pick are fingerstyle gtrsts.

i'm a little surprised but i can understand that what w you not being into jazz or hip to the many gtrsts who play "fingerstyle jazz" (or brazilian music too for that matter).....that perhaps you've never heard that term before.

now, while it is true that travis style alt bass fingerpicking, rural blues, folk, classical, and all forms of playing w fingers CAN be called "fingerstyle" ...

...well, you just don't hear anyone familiar w jazz referring to someone playing jazz w their fingers as "fingerpicking". sorry, that's what paul simon, elizabeth cotten, mississippi john hurt, and james taylor do.

trust me on this.....i wouldn't lie (well, not about THIS)

here's a whole page of links that have to do w "fingerstyle" gtr playing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fingers ... 3&ie=UTF-8

note that there's even a magazine... "Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine"
www.fingerstyleguitar.com/‎

and a club.. "Michigan Fingerstyle Guitar Society"
www.fingerstyle.org/‎

Planetguy wrote:

GuitarMikeB wrote:Did her ad say she was looking for a guitarist? If so, she probably wants a fingerpicking acoustic person, or a hollowbody jazzy style.
If people are vague in their CL ads, I usually don't bother.

"fingerpicking"??? like merle travis, john fahey, or leo kottke?

(reaches for red pen) ....mike, i guess you mean "fingerstyle".

whatever camp Jorma Kaukonen is in will work for me.. I say fingerguy! LOL

Dayne Nobody IV wrote:

Planetguy wrote:

GuitarMikeB wrote:Did her ad say she was looking for a guitarist? If so, she probably wants a fingerpicking acoustic person, or a hollowbody jazzy style.
If people are vague in their CL ads, I usually don't bother.

"fingerpicking"??? like merle travis, john fahey, or leo kottke?

(reaches for red pen) ....mike, i guess you mean "fingerstyle".

whatever camp Jorma Kaukonen is in will work for me.. I say fingerguy! LOL

too funny dane! i was listening to his album "Quah" earlier and thought to include him in my list of fingerpickers but decided he wouldn't have much "name recognition".

always been a big fan of him and of course....jack casidy.

I think Jorma would have plenty of recognition here, but not much outside the usual musician circles.

Yeah, lots of stuff online about 'fingerstyle', but I guess it's mostly the non-rock/folk/pop/country stuff. Fingerpick and flatpick is what I hear all the time.

GuitarMikeB wrote:I think Jorma would have plenty of recognition here, but not much outside the usual musician circles.

yeah, likely so. i shouldn't have sold everyone short!

has anyone seen the Coen brothers movie "A Serious Man"? there's a cpl of pretty funny tips of the hat to Jefferson Airplane.....esp towards the end of the movie when w great reverence the rabbi starts rattling off the names of the band members like a holy sacrement or an incantation.

Yeah, lots of stuff online about 'fingerstyle', but I guess it's mostly the non-rock/folk/pop/country stuff. Fingerpick and flatpick is what I hear all the time.

mike, you're just hanging in the wrong circles. start running w the jazzbos and you'll hear the term "fingerstyle" used regularly!

Planetguy wrote:mike, you're just hanging in the wrong circles. start running w the jazzbos and you'll hear the term "fingerstyle" used regularly!

Nah, I'd have to start wearing clean clothes or something ...