| There are many different types of guitar fingerstyles | | | | example: The song Layla by Eric Clapton is fingerstyle |
| for rock and different for blues and this technique | | | | but the song Never goin back again by Fleetwood |
| can be best learnt on an acoustic guitar. Mastering | | | | Mac is fingerpicking. |
| diverse fingerstyles will assist you to effectively | | | | Different Blues Fingerstyles |
| render blues music and backing tracks. | | | | There are different types of blues fingerstyle |
| When you are playing your guitar, the technique by | | | | techniques that you can learn as you progress up the |
| which you strum the strings or pick your guitar | | | | ladder and of course if you want to play blues |
| strings without using a pick is called a fingerstyle. | | | | backing tracks. The most common way to use |
| Blues Fingerstyle has been in use for quite a long time | | | | fingerstyle in blues backing tracks is by using the |
| in jazz, blues, rock and is even used for improvisation | | | | classical guitar style. In the classical guitar style, you |
| over blues backing tracks. There are some greats of | | | | have to use your thumb for playing the 3 bass |
| the world of blues music like Mark Knoprfler, Jeff | | | | strings, and use the index, and middle finger for |
| Beck and Chat Atkins who do it very well. Some of | | | | playing the melody strings. |
| the blues guitar players who do the fingerstyle better | | | | There are 3 distinctive style of blues fingerstyle |
| than anyone else include John Lee Hooker, Albert | | | | guitar and each have a different effect in blues |
| Collins, Otis Rush and Albert King among others. | | | | backing tracks. They are: |
| Learning the fingerstyle method of blues playing will | | | | 1.Using the thumb: The thumb fingerstyle mostly |
| definitely make things easier for you especially when | | | | requires down-strokes. It will provide you with a hard |
| you are jamming and playing over blues guitar | | | | style, hard sound, and a great tone but you will not |
| backing tracks. | | | | be able to play fast. This is considered a beginners |
| In a nutshell, this technique is all about how well you | | | | style and will provide you with a feeling of the guitar |
| are able to use your bare fingers. You can use blues | | | | and the strings and create the base for blues backing |
| fingerstyle on both the acoustic blues and electric | | | | tracks. |
| blues but they should have nylon or steel strings. | | | | 2.Index finger and thumb: In this technique you need |
| Using the fingerstyle gives blues players a definite | | | | to simulate playing with a pick except you will be |
| edge. Most of the blues guitarists of the Delta style | | | | using your fingers instead of the pick. The thumb will |
| used extensive blues backing tracks reinforced by | | | | help in down-strokes while the index finger will be |
| fingerstyles. | | | | used for up-strokes. |
| You may have heard the word fingerpicking more | | | | The thumb, index and middle finger: In this technique |
| than finger style and mind you - both the words | | | | you will have a definite advantage over the other |
| sound similar but mean different. Fingerpicking in blues | | | | two techniques and can play blues backing tracks |
| is more focused on specific picking patterns that | | | | with ease and speed. The middle finger and the index |
| have been derived from certain chords and are | | | | finger will be used for alternate picking. |
| always played in a style quite similar to arpeggio. For | | | | |