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  • verb Present participle of fingerpick.
  • noun music The plucking of the individual strings of a stringed instrument with the fingers

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Examples

  • Guitar tutor #2: lives a little further away and teaches Electric guitar and certain ACOUSTIC guitar catagories (such as fingerpicking but doesnt teach Folk Music) and begginers Bass

    All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com 2009

  • San Francisco's Vetiver first came to our attention circa 2004 as part of Devendra Banhart's raggle-taggle retinue, touting a particularly drowsy brand of psychedelic folk characterised by the mellow vocals and gentle fingerpicking of frontman Andy Cabic.

    This week's new live music 2011

  • In today's Weekend section I profiled guitarist William Tyler, whose recent album "Behold the Spirit" is a gorgeous, meditative album of ambient acoustic music that combines the classic fingerpicking tradition of John Fahey with the more experimental sounds of Sun City Girls.

    William Tyler's wordless story songs David Malitz 2011

  • San Francisco's Vetiver first came to our attention circa 2004 as part of Devendra Banhart's raggle-taggle retinue, touting a particularly drowsy brand of psychedelic folk characterised by the mellow vocals and gentle fingerpicking of frontman Andy Cabic.

    This week's new live music 2011

  • Though the band adds much to Mr. Long's debut, the foundation of his gift is apparent in the folk numbers "Sick Man Blues" and "The Bounty of Mary Jane," which feature his deft fingerpicking — Mr. Long said his father was a natural fingerpicker and he is, too.

    Patience Is the Heart Jim Fusilli 2011

  • You have fingerpicking and there's like the (unintelligible) ragtime music involved.

    New Collection Explores 'Classic Appalachian Blues' 2010

  • Mr. Kaukonen is one of our best proponents of the Piedmont style of blues fingerpicking and play new songs slated for their forthcoming album (their first in 11 years).

    Summer Sounds, Outdoors and Outside City Limits 2010

  • The Dodos, from San Francisco, made their racket with acoustic instruments: a guitar that was sometimes used for fingerpicking country-blues licks and, often, a toy piano.

    SXSW: Unstoppable Late-Night Beats - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Well, doomed love is better than no love, and the helicopters were strangely poignant that day as I listened to the fingerpicking guitar and vocal harmonies that reminded me - and this is not Sxip's fault, all bridge songs with fingerpicking guitar and vocal harmonies are wired together in the brain - of Simon and Garfunkel's "59th Street Bridge Song."

    Jesse Larner: Sxip Shirey and Sonic New York 2010

  • Well, doomed love is better than no love, and the helicopters were strangely poignant that day as I listened to the fingerpicking guitar and vocal harmonies that reminded me - and this is not Sxip's fault, all bridge songs with fingerpicking guitar and vocal harmonies are wired together in the brain - of Simon and Garfunkel's "59th Street Bridge Song."

    Jesse Larner: Sxip Shirey and Sonic New York 2010

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