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Path to Finger Freedom

THE PAST FEW columns were designed to get all of your digits on deck. It can take a bit of time before you’ll feel fully prepared to navigate the fingerstyle world, but we’ve addressed how to approach that, and exciting new opportunities now await us. Eager to take on fingerpicking patterns across multiple strings? Pluck it—let’s do this!

DEVELOP A CLE AN THUMB

The first exercise

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