[Mattias Krantz] wondered what the best number of picks was to play guitar and took the experiment ... the characteristics of the human thumb. Finally, he takes us to the undiscovered country ...

Mastering fingerstyle guitar takes dedication, practice, and the right exercises. For guitarists striving to improve their precision and speed, adding thumb pick exercises to their practice ...

Here, the thumb plays the bass notes and the first three fingers of the picking hand are assigned ... During the mid/late 1960s, the acoustic guitar played a major part in a folk revival.

Remember with Travis picking you are still generally playing through chord progressions so the thumb has to be adept ... outros are a huge part of what the guitar does in bluegrass, and Flatt ...