finger-picking

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• Picking (guitare) — Le picking (ou finger picking, littéralement « cueillette au doigt ») est une technique de jeu utilisée à la guitare (surtout en acoustique). Elle est très répandue dans le blues et la musique country. Elle fut inventée au début du… …   Wikipédia en Français

• picking one's nose — putting a finger in one s nose …   English contemporary dictionary

• Chicken picking — (or chicken pickin , similar to hybrid picking) is a lead guitar picking style or technique used in country, rock,and metal music where the plucked strings are pulled outward (i.e., away from the fretboard instead of parallel to the fretboard) by …   Wikipedia

• Sweep-picking — is a technique used on the guitar in which a sweeping motion of the pick is combined with a matching fret hand technique in order to produce a specific series of notes which are fast and fluid in sound. Despite being commonly known as sweep… …   Wikipedia

• Nose-picking — Classification and external resources …   Wikipedia

• Cherry picking (basketball) — For the fallacy see: Cherry picking (fallacy) Cherry picking is a strategic act sometimes used in basketball to give a team a higher scoring chance.[1] A player who performs this act is known as a cherry picker. It is sometimes frowned upon, and… …   Wikipedia

• Guitar picking — refers to playing the guitar with a pick or one s fingers and despite the name also includes strumming. Styles include fingerstyle guitar, Travis picking, and Carter Family picking …   Wikipedia

• TurnPro Magnetic Finger — The TurnPro Magnetic Finger is an invention of Alamo Heights native Casper Terpinski. The product is basically a finger slip or glove with magnets built into the gripping surface, designed for picking up nuts and bolts during automotive work. The …   Wikipedia

• Carter Family picking — Carter Family picking, also known as thumb brush technique or the Carter lick, and also the church lick and the Carter scratch [1], is a style of fingerstyle guitar named for Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family s distinctive style of rhythm… …   Wikipedia

• Vibration white finger — The original name for a painful and potentially disabling condition of the fingers, hans, and arms due to vibration. Known now preferably as the hand arm vibration syndrome. In this syndrome, there is initially a tingling sensation in the fingers …   Medical dictionary