Hand Jive Fingerpicking Lesson, Part 1

Since the early 60's fingerpicking has been synonymous with American folk music, the steelstring flat-top guitar, and the coffeehouse scene. But you don't have to be a folkie-or even play acoustic guitar-to benefit from pattern-based picking. There's plenty of opportunity to adapt fingerpicking's supple, rhythmic energy to contemporary music. The trick is to mate traditional picking-hand moves with modern voicings and timbres. In this two-part lesson, we'll do just that. This lesson includes Power Tab and is featured on the following CD compilations: ACOUSTIC U, TWANG U.