Downpicking
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Downpicking is a noun meaning (music) The technique of playing a stringed instrument with a plectrum using all downward strokes.
Meaning
(music) The technique of playing a stringed instrument with a plectrum using all downward strokes.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of downpick
Example Sentences
What I noticed was that Charlie did a lot of downpicking, like Eddie Durham, and he wasn't playing any modern chords.
Pete Seegerin fact credits Crisp with teaching him to “frail,” but apparently it was Stu Jamieson who was Crisp's major disciple and the main revivalist exponent of the downpicking style through the 1940s.
You will know whether you want a tone ring, and if so, what kind, and whether or not you want a resonator (most people would rather do downpicking and two-finger picking on banjos without resonators, although this feeling is far from universal — my own all-round "working" banjo is a thirty-year-old Vega with resonator).
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fingerpicking, pick, flatpicking, fingerpick, thumbpick, quill.
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