Finger Technique Quotes

The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from a classical guitar. I use a combination of flesh and nail when plucking the strings.

The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.

Everything Paul Kossoff did came from his fingers and went right into the amp. He was his own effects unit.

Before you can apply chromatic ideas to scales and arpeggios, you have to get the chromatic scale itself under your fingers. You should learn it up and down the neck, and become comfortable with the fingerings.

I was so used to doing old blues licks with the first three fingers. When I started using my pinky and finding more spread things, that's when I started getting my own style.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.

I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.

My fingertips are my favorite makeup brush! I especially like to apply my eye shadow with them, get it nice and smudgy. All my favorite makeup artists used their fingers to apply and their hand as a palette.

I'd really like to be able to whistle with two fingers. Is this a biological thing? Is it to do with the teeth? Who teaches people to do this? How do I learn?

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.