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{{Technique Crumbs|14}} <u>'''Finger Picking</u> ''' or '''finger-style''' is a technique that uses the right-hand fingers to pluck the strings instead of using a pick. This offers a different tone than using a pick, avoiding many of the transients and generally delivering a darker tone. It is also useful to more easily arpeggiate chords as well as playing intervals that do not use adjacent strings.
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== Notation ==
Finger-picked guitar notation often includes markings above/below the tab/sheet music indicating which finger on the right hand to use. These take the same form as left-hand fingering for fretting:
Where liner notes do not specify whether the markings pertain to left-hand fretting vs. right-hand finger-picking, it is usually obvious what they refer to. For example, if a marking is given over an open string, then it clearly refers to finger-picking, as your left-hand doesn't fret an open string. If still ambiguous, actually trying to play it should reveal what's going on - the markings may make a seemingly simple left-hand fretting difficult to impossible...because the markings actually refer to the right-hand.
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