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I found early on that fingerpicking was a lot easier for me than flatpicking- might be that playing the piano first just made finding the strings easier. Plus, I could never keep track of picks in my early days of playing.
Chris- if you do a search for Man of Constant Sorrow on ultimate-guitar.com you'll find a nice version of it in drop-D. Lot less fooling around with tuning. It's written as the acoustic version that Christopher Thomas King plays in the movie when they first record it. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/..._power_tab.htm
Download the PDF of the 'Guitar Chord Slide Rule', print it out, fold it together and you'll have at your disposal a very neat tool that will not only show you all the positions for the main flavors of chords, but will also teach you a very important lesson about how the guitar works... It consists of a folded sleeve and six double sided inserts, instructions for cutting it out and folding it together are included with the PDF ... it's very simple to do, and if you botch it, you can simply print it out again!
