fingerpicking
Speech parts
1. fingerpicking - Noun
2. fingerpicking - Verb
Meaning
fingerpicking
present participle of fingerpick
fingerpicking (usually uncountable, plural fingerpickings)
(music) The plucking of the individual strings of a stringed instrument with the fingers
Examples
Bass solos are performed using a range of different techniques, such as plucking or fingerpicking.
Garcia's lead lines were fluid, supple and spare, owing a great deal of their character to his training in fingerpicking and banjo.
In 2011, Buckingham was ranked 100th in Rolling Stone Magazine's 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". citation Buckingham is known for his fingerpicking guitar style.
Fingerpicking her acoustic guitar over Lisa’s piano and harmonizing, Wendy sang as audience sniffles gave way to tears.
These flat-top, steel-string guitars are constructed and voiced more for classical-like fingerpicking and less for chordal accompaniment (strumming).
Singers such as Blind Willie McTell and Blind Boy Fuller performed in the southeastern "delicate and lyrical" Piedmont blues tradition, which used an elaborate ragtime-based fingerpicking guitar technique.