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→Chicken Pickin
<u>Chicken Pickin'</u> is a technique where you use the plectrum to pick the lower note of a double or triple stop, while using the middle or ring finger of the picking hand to pick the higher note(s). This is helpful for many reasons:
* If the strings are not adjacent, you don't have to worry about muting the strings in between. This delivers a cleaner sound, helpful for playing softer passages where plucking the muted string adds too much of a percussive sound.
* When doing runs of double-stops, it's easier and faster to pluck the correct strings.
* The tone of the pick and fingers are slightly different, allowing greater expression.
* The finger can be used to quickly mute and pluck the string, allowing easy bluesy double-stops.
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