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#230684 by DainNobody
Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:56 pm
this post has vanished to protect the innocent :shock:
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#230685 by GuitarMikeB
Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:00 pm
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.

#230704 by Planetguy
Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:33 pm
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". 8)

#230706 by GuitarMikeB
Wed Mar 05, 2014 6:55 pm
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.

#230709 by Planetguy
Wed Mar 05, 2014 7:23 pm
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/‎

#230711 by DainNobody
Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:42 pm
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". 8)
whatever camp Jorma Kaukonen is in will work for me.. I say fingerguy! LOL

#230712 by Planetguy
Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:47 pm
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". 8)
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.

#230735 by GuitarMikeB
Thu Mar 06, 2014 1:55 pm
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.

#230736 by Planetguy
Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:03 pm
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! :D

#230747 by GuitarMikeB
Thu Mar 06, 2014 6:34 pm
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! :D


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

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