Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 15 seconds ago
A lockdown collaboration @MichaelKerrBlackEyes and I created in 2020, here's "Buckets of Rain" by Bob Dylan.
A lockdown collaboration @MichaelKerrBlackEyes and I created in 2020, here's "Buckets of Rain" by Bob Dylan.



![An overlooked thumbpick technique
Using a thumbpick to flatpick is an overlooked technique in a fingerstyle guitarists arsenal, and one thats rarely taught or discussed.
In this tutorial video well look at the concept of flatpicking with a thumbpick, switching from fingerpicking to flatpicking and back again, going between fingerstyle and single-note melodies and riffs mid-performance, without ever having to change your pick.
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00:00 Introduction
01:00 Title card
01:05 Tommy Emmanuels technique
02:17 SECTION 1: The concept
03:24 Exercise 1: John Ryans Polka
04:29 Alternate picking
05:22 Finding the right thumbpick
07:39 SECTION 2: Practice the technique
07:53 Exercise 2: TEs alternate picking
08:56 Exercise 3: Rippled major scale
10:07 Exercise 4: Belfast Hornpipe
11:03 SECTION 3: From fingerstyle to flatpicking mid-song
11:53 Exercise 5: Windy and Warm
13:13 Exercise 6: King of the Swingers/Bear Necessities
14:29 Performing with Tommy Emmanuel
14:56 Exercise 7: Luttrell
16:02 Exercise 8: Cannonball Rag
17:21 Outro
18:05 End card
▬▬▬ FOOTAGE USED ▬▬▬
From Tommy Emmanuel interview and fingerstyle lesson by @AcousticMagazine1. Thanks for the great content folks!
[VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/5e3OT3myE2w]
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▬▬▬ LETS TALK ▬▬▬
Are you a thumbpicker or a flatpicker? Have you ever tried using a thumbpick to play lead lines this way? Id love to know where youre at with this technique! Drop me a comment below.
▬▬▬ GEAR USED ▬▬▬
Guitar: Maton EBW808 acoustic guitar
Audio: Tascam X8 Portacapture, Rode lavalier mic, Rode M5
Thumbpick: Dunlop heavies, medium size
Cameras: Sony A7RV + Sony 16mm f1.8, Fujifilm X-S20 + Fujifilm XF 18-55mm
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Thumbpick | Flatpicking | Fingerstyle Guitar | Thumbpick Technique |
Acoustic Guitar | Guitar Tutorial | Chet Atkins | Tommy Emmanuel | Richard Smith | Fingerpicking | Guitar Lesson | Intermediate Guitar | Advanced Guitar | Fingerstyle Technique | Maton guitars | Dunlop thumbpicks An overlooked thumbpick technique](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tUxc2ZYE-jg/mqdefault.jpg)


![An Pasáiste | John Tracey & Neil Ó Briain
An Pasáiste [English: Passage West] is a modern Irish jig composed by Neil Ó Briain (@NeilOBri) arranged and performed by both he and John Tracey for their collaborative release Ar Foluain.
Recorded in Islay, Scotland, in summer 2024.
Check out the entire Ar Foluain documentary here: https://youtu.be/63x2fRGmBoY?si 8QP9sdUKZu3FlQn An Pasáiste | John Tracey & Neil Ó Briain](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vGnv1jV_UQY/mqdefault.jpg)



