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finger-picking, vbl. n. Mus.|ˈfɪŋgəˌpɪkɪŋ|
[f. finger n. + picking vbl. n.1]
A technique of playing the guitar or a similar instrument by plucking the strings with the fingernails (cf. pick v.1 12) or with picks attached to the fingertips. Cf. guitar-picking s.v. guitar n. b.
1956Sing Out! Spring 31/1 The same feeling..is felt in the sections on blues, finger-picking,..and the Mexican Blues. 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 91/3 (Advt.), Learn fingerpicking styles of folk & country blues recording artists. 1977Time Out 28 Jan. 60/2 (Advt.), Guitar folk. Blues, fingerpicking. 1983Washington Post 7 Jan. d7/2 She [sc. Elizabeth Cotten] had an innate sense of instant composition, fleshing out melodies with finger-picking that astounded her family and other musicians.
Also ˈfinger-picking ppl. a.; hence (as a back-formation) ˈfinger-pick v. intr. and trans.; ˈfinger-picked ppl. a.; ˈfinger-picker n., a guitarist who plays in this style.
1959Sing Out! Summer 37/2 Those who have mastered this are thereby graduated finger pickers. 1983N.Y. Times 13 Jan. c19/1 Bob Mellman does vocals and guitar backup as well as finger-picked ragtime. 1983Washington Post 6 May b8/2 Gilewitz finger-picked with such graceful facility. 1985R. Kienzle Great Guitarists 56/1 McGee..was one of the first major fingerpicking guitarists to emerge in the 1920s. Ibid. 97/1 The style originated..among black southern guitarists, who were fingerpicking guitars before white musicians ever began to take guitars seriously. |