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Watson is widely credited with popularizing the guitar style known as flatpicking, a rapid-fire approach to playing notes and chords on guitar strings by use of a plectrum, or guitar pick.
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Ted Olson, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2023
Steiner stared across the creek and raised his right arm into an L, clasping a coaster-size sliver of shale the way a guitarist might hold a plectrum during a showstopping solo.
—Sean Williams, Outside Online, 20 Sep. 2022
Fleck, whose Flecktones brought bluegrass into the modern era, plays much like a classical guitarist, using the right-hand plectrum technique popularized by Nashville’s Earl Scruggs.
—oregonlive, 28 Jan. 2020
Where Herrington deftly embellished and added new parts to solos originally recorded on Steely Dan albums by such plectrum masters as Larry Carlton and Elliott Randall, O’Connor generally played his parts by the book.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
People tend to get hung up on the technical side of Montgomery's playing: his parallel octaves, his use of the thumb rather than a plectrum.
—John Corbett, Chicago Reader, 29 Aug. 2017
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Ted Olson, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2023
Steiner stared across the creek and raised his right arm into an L, clasping a coaster-size sliver of shale the way a guitarist might hold a plectrum during a showstopping solo.
—Sean Williams, Outside Online, 20 Sep. 2022
Fleck, whose Flecktones brought bluegrass into the modern era, plays much like a classical guitarist, using the right-hand plectrum technique popularized by Nashville’s Earl Scruggs.
—oregonlive, 28 Jan. 2020
Where Herrington deftly embellished and added new parts to solos originally recorded on Steely Dan albums by such plectrum masters as Larry Carlton and Elliott Randall, O’Connor generally played his parts by the book.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
People tend to get hung up on the technical side of Montgomery's playing: his parallel octaves, his use of the thumb rather than a plectrum.
—John Corbett, Chicago Reader, 29 Aug. 2017
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“Plectrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plectrum. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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