Acoustic guitar is a radical instrument and is used by hundred s of thousands of greasy teenagers expressing their feelings and lame stuff like that. But just strumming chords is like only using your thumbs to type on the keyboard. (It stinks!) Anyhoo, everybody knows individually striking the strings with your fingers is way better. Just look at this video of youtube artist SOS auto playing 9 lb hammer.
Some say Finger picking is the style of grungy dirty acoustic tree huggers. They're pretty much right. Numero dos is the all time finger picking great and Guitar Vitruoso John Fahey, enjoy his rendition of Poor Boy's Long way from Home.
Paul McCartney actually wrote his all time classic "Black Bird" after learning finger picking from folk 60s hero Donovan. This undeniably great song and one that every goofball amateur guitarist learns right before stumbling through Stairway to Heaven at the coffee shop for the 8th time. Anyway BLACKBIRD!!!!
Here's effeminate singer song-writer Ryan Adams doing a much more understated fingerpicking song to highlight the tenderness of his song "Sweet Carolina." The notes really pluck along well with the melody he sings and adds an intimacy you wouldn't get with chugging chords. He's married to Mandy Moore now. That's so weird.
Now the finale! A North Korean 3 year old girl shredding here way through Choro Brasil!!!!!!!!!!!! Who cares that they just devalued all their currency! They've got shredding little girls!!!!!!! Goodnight!
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