What are some good songs for fingerpicking? They don't even necessarily have to be written with fingerstyle in mind. For example, I've already learned most of Purple Haze with my fingers.
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Good songs to learn for when I don't have a pick?
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i play frequently without a pick. if you want a finger picking song... i just heard jim croce operator and that would be a fun one to learn. or just play things you know, without a pick. its good practice and you dont have to put time in learning a new tune
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Find something you like and learn it. I got into finger picking really early on because I wanted to play the middle clean part of Metallica's "To Live is To Die." It's a fairly complex thing to start with, but I spent so much time learning it, I started finger picking all sorts of stuff.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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I'd say Money for Nothing or Sultans of Swing.Administrator of the SDUGF
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Originally posted by '59 View PostAlso do yall pick with your nails or the pads of your fingers? My nails are never long enough, but I feel most people use their nails.
It doesn't hinder me or anything, just curious.
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I've really never dabbled much in fingerstyle guitar, but have been working to change that recently. Tunes that I'm practicing regularly now:
Dylan - Don't Think Twice
Clapton - Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
John Mayer - Neon
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
I play with the pads of my right hand fingers, so if I don't play regularly my fingers get kinda shredded. Never figured out the nail thing, other than the occasionally strummy type rake with the tops of the nails.Join me in the fight against muscular atrophy!
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