Since I have started playing, I have been obsessed with picking technique. I work in the public school system and my particular institution promotes music more than any other I have seen. This year I have encountered a picking style that I hadn’t seen before. AND…I actually found 2 separate kids that do it.
Basically, these kids place the thumb and index together and use the thumbnail as a pick OR do a type of a pinch when articulating the string. BOTH seem to utilize what we would call hybrid picking (pick and fingers, at least I thought that’s what it’s called).
So…is this just straightforward fingerpicking? I’m not well versed in that world beyond playing the obligatory Extreme song (MTW). OR, is it more similar to picking as followers of CTC understand it.
I have noticed “pickslant”. It seems like DWPS would be most natural, but it shouldn’t be much different than UWPS.
Let me know what you think, and again, if this is garden variety fingerpicking I apologize for wasting your time.
Sincerely,
Brandon J. Roth