Planetguy wrote:This is simply physics, bro.
On one hand, it is easier to coordinate one finger than it is to coordinate 5 moving in symphony.
LOL!
tell ya what....take two wks and get back to me when you can blaze up and down the fingerboard like Django using TWO FINGERS!!!! cos' in your logic, it's MUCH more impressive and some sign of prowess to use all fingers! 
yeah, Django was great and all ...but think of how VERY MUCH MORE IMPRESSIVE he might have been playing the same stuff but with ALL his fingers!!!
And for extra credit...take another two wks and show me how you can groove funky 1/16 notes on bass using just your left hand index finger like Rocco Prestia!
yeah, cos THAT's waaaaaay easier to do w only ONE FINGER!!! why, anyone here could do it, right?
i wonder... are you less impressed w great upright bassists who mostly use just their right hand index finger to pluck the string than let's say...even mediocre electric bassists who pluck w index and middle??!!!! 
On the other hand, it is easy to compare a finger-picking technique that uses all fingers as taking more advanced ability than a simple plucking technique. That's why Jerry Reed is a better player than say, BB King. That statement has nothing to do with whose style you like more...just an objective measurement of difficulty of performance.
ted, you need to look up th eword "objective".
that's about as SUBJECTIVE as it gets because you're using YOUR definition of what makes a "better" player. could BB do what Reed did? nope. could Reed play blues like BB? nope.
In the video we are discussing, Nag plays a very simple finger-picking pattern droning in an open key. Again I ask...why do you think that is so hard to imitate? did you watch it?
i'll ask YOU...why do YOU think it's a "simple fingerpicking pattern".....you demonstrate again and your lack of knowledge of the instrument. get back to us when you can play that "simple fingerpicking pattern"
what's next....you're gonna rail about violinists who don't have the same skills playing w a flat pick as great gtrsts??? 
Objectively speaking, on average a violin is much more difficult than a guitar for several reasons: No frets, smaller fret area, bows/plucking, etc....so comparing musicians who play another instrument would depend on the difficulty of the piece they are performing.
....and more subjectivity there. w/o playing an instrument (as you clearly and OBJECTIVELY demonstrate)....you have no idea how difficult or easy something is. and i know for a fact that the gal who plays fiddle and guitar in my BG band would tell you playing guitar is much harder for her.
Its a shame that a decent musician like yourself has so many problems with simple comprehension of the english language....and doesn't understand basic concepts of physics to boot!?
You are trying so hard to mischaracterize what I've said that it must hurt your tongue to get that crooked?
So let's try relating with another genre. How about sports? Some people think that darts are a sport, while some think that football is a sport.
You can compare between the top people in darts vs football and objectively determine that one of those sports are more demanding than the other, and therefore, the football player is a better athlete than the dart player.
Both require a lifetime of committed discipline to master...but the master of one of those is doing something more demanding and therefore can be judged as a better athlete, though both hold best-in-the-world status of what they do.
With a couple of weeks of intense training, I could play darts enough to finish a game. I would not be as good as someone who had committed their lives to the sport, but I could finish a game without injury or physical difficulty.
But football is a much more demanding sport, and at my age I would be risking injury and not likely I could keep up to the speed of younger players who have committed themselves to being the best at their position.
Yet, I could play the game..
But I know that I can not physically keep up with a professional without having to practice once. Not so with a dart champion. They could destroy me in a dart game by virture of being committed to practicing all the time..... but I'm physically capable of playing a game with them
I know that by simply observing how much the dart player physically exerts....but I'm not as confident I could finish a game with the football player. I can simply observe that they are doing something much more demanding, physically.
Are you capable of making such an obvious judgement? Are you capable of making an intellectually honest comparison? I see little evidence that you are, but go ahead and surprise me.
Or will you continue acting like I said something else and argue with that straw man some more?
