Acoustic Guitar Flatpicking Tips for Faster, Cleaner, Crisper Playing – By Lee Griffith

Acoustic Guitar Flatpicking Tips for Faster, Cleaner, Crisper Playing
By Lee Griffith

Whether you pick bluegrass, fiddle tunes, and old-time music on a guitar like I do, or other styles of music, here are some good basics to learn that will get you on the road to playing fast, clean, crisp lead on an acoustic guitar:

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Flatpicking Tips for the Acoustic Guitar

Flatpicking Tips for the Acoustic Guitar
By Lee Griffith

The thing I love to do most on a guitar is to play old-time fiddle tunes with a . It was not until after I had played guitar for about ten years that I took a few lessons Mick Martin, an incredibly fast and articulate flatpicker in Pittsburgh. Mick set me on the right path toward getting those fiddle tunes to flow and to really ring out crisply and cleanly on a guitar. These principles are applicable to not only bluegrass or fiddle tunes, but to all kinds of acoustic guitar music played with a flatpick.

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