![]() On a personal note, when you get an arrangement right, you have that magical moment, in your house, on your own, when all of a sudden, fingers, thumbs and brain click into sync and the song just works the satisfaction and sense of achievement coursing through your veins is immense. ![]() Fingerstyle is not to entertain the masses, it's a niche, and a very specific one at that. So why put yourself through it, if not to impress people at parties? Now, I like a sing-a-long as much as the next guy, but after years of building strength, technique, muscle memory and trying to reconfigure my simple brain to do 5 or 6 things at the same time, these situations can be frustrating. If you then play a fingerstyle arrangement of a song, or go into full on Merle Travis mode, said person looks at you like you've just stepped on a puppy and again requests something along the lines of Bye Bye Miss American Pie. When you tell someone you play the guitar, if there happens to be a six string within any kind of proximity, their immediate reaction is to thrust the thing toward you like a weapon and demand either Wonderwall or House of the Rising Sun. If the answer is yes, the following will hopefully make you smile.
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