Though you can pluck the guitar strings with your fingers, using a pick (aka plectrum) is the more common approach for a clearer tone – especially on electric guitar as opposed to acoustic.

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Where a traditional capo clamps down on top of the fretboard, the Freestyle – like the CapoSonic before it – clamps to the sides, and gives each string an individual 'hammer,' with the option ...

Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered tunings and many points between - to build your musical vocabulary and hone your own voice on the acoustic guitar.

The skill is in choosing which notes to emphasise, or maybe skip entirely, while maintaining the alternate strokes (even if the pick doesn’t contact the strings).