Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the
guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks attached to fingers, as opposed to
flatpicking (picking individual notes with a single
plectrum called a flatpick) or
strumming all the strings of the instrument in chords. The term is often used synonymously with fingerpicking (although "fingerpicking" can also refer to a specific stylistic subset; see below). Music arranged for fingerstyle playing can include chords, arpeggios and other elements such as
artificial harmonics,
hammering on and
pulling off with the fretting hand, using the body of the guitar percussively, and many other techniques.
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