Critical fingerstyle technique that everyone should be doing! #fingerstyle #fingerpicking #guitar
Channel: Sound Guitar Lessons with Jared
Date: 2024-02-24

If you're interested in playing with your fingers at all then definitely work on planting. This technique made a massive difference for me as soon as I started working on it. Planting is the practice of preparing and securing your plucking hand finger on the string before actually plucking the string. The tiny moment of preparation is what allows fingerstyle players to have a consistent, bold, controlled, even, predictable, warm tone in ANY style of guitar that is fingerpicking based. Planting comes from classical guitar pedagogy. Lots of people do it without even knowing that they are because it simply is the solution to having a reliable fingerstyle sound in any style, so some people naturally and intuitively gravitate towards, but it's great to practice it on purpose so we know what we're doing and why it works.  Give it a try and happy practicing! :) -Jared