Three fingers or four?

[Ferryman_1957]

Mainly two fingers, frequently three fingers, occasionally four. I have small hands, fat fingers and limited technique, so just use what works. The guitarist in my University band who was (and is) a stunningly good lead guitarist used all four fingers equally but he was a trained cellist so I am sure that helped.

Mind you, the two finger technique didn't hold this guy back:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzz6fAdFFis

Cheers,

Nigel

LOL, posted at EXACTLY the same time as Gnasty.

[Geir]

..... and sometimes I force myself to use only two ... or even one finger ... just for fun ...

 I've actually toyed with the idea of making a song where I only use one finger ....

[Ferryman_1957]

LOL, the problem I have is not the number of fingers, it's the number of notes! I only know a few basic scales so no matter how many fingers I use I still have a somewhat limited palette! Thank goodness for the Kaossilator, one finger and many scales!

[Oldrottenhead]

drop the thick string at the top two notes bar chord with middle finger most of the time.tho use most fingers but my wee hawns mean i rarely use my thumb.
edit

just noticed the poll question,

prior to my lessons from the good reverend 48, i used to use one finger on one string   when playing lead, but since my lessons i use 4 fingers and all the strings.

[Bluesberry]

drop the thick string at the top two notes bar chord with middle finger most of the time.tho use most fingers but my wee hawns mean i rarely use my thumb.

Thats Drop-D tuning, great tuning.  I like to do that too.  Why not take it a step further and tune to OPen-D, thats D-A-D-F#-A-D from thick string to thin string.  Then you lay your finger straight across the neck and you are playing a major chord.  Open its D, 2nd fret its E, 5th fret its G, etc....great tuning.  I have been playing around with it on my acoustic lately.

[Oldrottenhead]

cheers bb will give that a try

[Ferryman_1957]

BTW, I assume we meant soloing, correct? I use all four fingers all the time for chord work (unless only 2 or 3 are needed!). So for example I don't use power chords, I use a full barre chord with the appropriate three finger shape in front of it. But I suspect that is because I learnt the guitar over 40 years ago when there were no internet tutorials and I learnt my chords from chord books. I only found out what a "power chord" was about 1 year ago!!

Cheers,

Nigel 

[Bluesberry]

Here is a cat that uses all 10 digits on the fretboard.......cool man


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W0SOsx1Xvg

[Oldrottenhead]

loving that D-A-D-F#-A-D tuning bb, not got anytime to do anything with it just yet but had a few strums with it.me likee

[Gnasty]

Yes these guys do a lot of drop D Tuning on there songs. Days of the New. I think they even went a half step down too.
It can give a dark mood.

I love the first Days Of The New album.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW14Q6fAKig


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19GAnfxKHMQ