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Old October 25th, 2006
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That would be a pretty good way of setting it up. IMHO there is no real need to separate metal from rock, there are ENDLESS variations of rock, and the same rules apply to all of them, so rock is good on it's own.

Oh, and no, finger style and finger picking is not the same thing.

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Originally Posted by Kirk
Finger style is a way of orchestrating a piece of music on a guitar. You weave bass line, melody and chord fragments into one arrangement. There is nothing symmetrical about it, not much repetition of patterns, since it's all based on a tune ... the three elements combine to become the tune. Each section of the piece is different from the others, all must be learned and pieced together to form the whole.

Finger picking is more of an accompaniment. It usually is a pattern of fingers hitting certain strings at certain moments no matter what the chord is. It doesn't need to follow a melody line -- something else is doing that, ie vocalist, another player. So what you need to learn for finger picking are the basic patterns which you use for the whole tune.


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