Acoustic guitars are more difficult to play than electric ones. The reason is electric guitars can *hold* a note longer and can manipulate a sound easier than acoustic guitar which cannot sustain a note long. (Like a piano compared to an organ).
Fingerstyle guitar playing with an acoustic is several degrees more difficult than playing with a pick because all fingers on both hands need to sync properly for the proper note to sound.
Why not play with a pick only..? Simple...a pick can only pick ONE note at one time...if you fingerstyle (ie..use fingers instead of a pick), you could play 5 notes at one time because you have 5 fingers free at any one time on your right hand.
One of the kings of fingerstyle is Andy McKee, he has a website here if you want to buy his tabs for his songs. (Tabs is like a musical score for a guitar). Below is him playing one of his compositions,Rylynn.
Ok...this the Sungha Jung playing Rylynn. The piece is slightly over 5 minutes...listen at the harmonics at 4:14. The 12 year old kid is a prodigy.
Fingerstyle guitar playing with an acoustic is several degrees more difficult than playing with a pick because all fingers on both hands need to sync properly for the proper note to sound.
Why not play with a pick only..? Simple...a pick can only pick ONE note at one time...if you fingerstyle (ie..use fingers instead of a pick), you could play 5 notes at one time because you have 5 fingers free at any one time on your right hand.
One of the kings of fingerstyle is Andy McKee, he has a website here if you want to buy his tabs for his songs. (Tabs is like a musical score for a guitar). Below is him playing one of his compositions,Rylynn.
Ok...this the Sungha Jung playing Rylynn. The piece is slightly over 5 minutes...listen at the harmonics at 4:14. The 12 year old kid is a prodigy.
Some of you may think the kid is just a pro at copying guitar scores. Listen to this extremely haunting score. It is his own composition. The kid is gonna get a lot of female attention in college ;-)
