The Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary
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    Thanks for the cool discussion everyone!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RJVB
    Maybe it's easier to play fast with a pick (and it's undoubtedly easier to play fast and sound like a sewing machine ) ....
    There was a discussion on here a while back about an exercise/study in 16th that had to be played at a fast metronome setting and was considered very difficult. For giggles I asked about it on the Delcamp forum and as expected was told that this was definitely not out of reach for a good classical player.

    I'd say there are 2 main reasons (for using a flat-pick)
    - it's more suitable for speed and getting a well-defined attack on (heavy) steel strings
    - there are no inter-finger synchronisation or strength/agility requirements so it's easier if most of what you do is strum chords or play runs that rarely jump back and forth between 2 or more strings that aren't adjacent.

    It'd be interesting to know if there are jazz players who use fingerpicks.
    Lenny Breau used a thumbpick
    Buddy Fite used fingerpicks because he used to drop his flat pick when he'd play drunk.
    Rather than stop drinking, he switched to fingerpicks, because no matter how drunk he got, those fingerpicks stayed right on his fingers.

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    I attended David's return to the concert stage at Jordan Hall many years ago and remember it being (deservingly) very well received. Iirc he could not use his ring finger and trained himself to play with just thumb, index and middle.
    Lyona Boyd suffers from dystonia from too much time practicing and last I heard was strumming to accompany her singing. Sad thing to have the driving force of your life taken from you.
    Quote Originally Posted by ronjazz
    David Leisner is the guitarist who "recovered" from Focal Dystonia. Many listeners think that he sounds strained and that his tone suffers, thus he has not fully recovered, but has found fairly effective work-arounds. His book is about taking a relaxed approach to learning and playing classical guitar, and may help students to avoid this deadly condition, which I developed 20 years ago and have struggled with ever since. It forced me back into plectrum playing, with some hybrid mixed in, so I can still make a living, but I do miss the classical and flamenco repertoire and gigs. Julian Lage was on his way to FD in his left hand, but worked with FD specialist Jerald Harscher and avoided it, but it was a major influence on his switching to lighter strings and a lower action, thus the Collings that he currently plays.

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    Wonderful playing! I’m mainly a flamenco player and I improved my arpeggios with planting exercises. Just rest your fingers on the strings and play a note with one finger without moving the others.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Kleinhaut
    Flatpicking is my main "go-to", but fingerstyle playing offers great textural control over the polyphonic capabilities of the guitar. Classical players are lightyears ahead with this technique and pima is standard. My middle finger is near useless due to CTS so adaptation to work without it has yielded what you hear here- as of mid August 2022 anyway. Thanks as always for watching.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MartinC
    Wonderful playing! I’m mainly a flamenco player and I improved my arpeggios with planting exercises. Just rest your fingers on the strings and play a note with one finger without moving the others.
    Thanks for the compliment! Q;?are you talking about rest strokes or something different. Any videos where you could demonstrate this?