Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Craig,

I would love to see anything you have managed to tab in the way of McGuinn's fingerpicking patterns. I agree that the publicly available tab is either overly simple or wrong. I have the DVD but even found portions of the accompanying booklet that appear to be inaccurate when compared to his ...

For anyone who is kind of new to Roger's style, or playing the Rick-12 in that fashion, may I recommend "The Day Walk" as an excellent place to start...most of the picking is sort of centrally located on the D, G & B strings, song has repetition, nice groove, straightforward and easy to play, and ...

Thanks Jim for the photos-- and please don't worry about possibly stating the obvious (though in this case, I knew how to put on the finger picks) and everyone else for the input. I am going to keep at it and just practice, practice, practice. As I alluded in my prior post, one of the things I find ...

Love this discussion.... I have been a finger-picker for a long time on an acoustic (thumb and finger pads-- no picks) and finally purchased my dream guitar, a fire-glo 360. I am trying in earnest to pick up RM's playing style which not only entails learning to hold the pick and use middle and third ...