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Summary: When playing classical guitar, a thumb pick can be helpful as a tool for playing bass lines on low strings. Discover how Chet Atkins helped to advance this particular style with help from a guitar repairman in this free video on using thumb picks to play classical guitar.
Jacob Sharp has been repairing guitars for 10 years now. He also builds guitars, and has been playing guitar for 20 years.read more
"Jake Sharp again with Sharp Guitar Works. We are just going to real quickly give you a quick demo of how to use a thumb pick. Traditionally that is used for a steel-string guitar, and the main idea behind that is that you have got alternating bass parts on the low string. You will hear it a lot in country music, and also in sort of like Chet Atkins style. Chet Atkins was one of the big guys that more or less invented this style. And you just alternate your bass. Also the idea is you are mostly using it on the lower two strings, the fifth and the sixth string. And you are just kind of trying to imitate that what the bass would play. And another technique that is used quite a bit while you are doing this is to mute the bass strings with your right hand. It keeps them from clashing against the higher strings, the higher part that you play."
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