When she switched to 12-string guitar, she picked patterns akin to the East-West hybrids of Sandy Bull and Robbie Basho.
She sets up intricate picked patterns or sketches genuine counterpoint; she syncopates jazz harmonies and or lets clear chords ring out.
While Bettina picked patterns for the occasion, Margarita stuck to neutrals with embroidery.
Strum while playing the chords or practice the picking pattern, with your thumb on the bass note and your index and middle finger picking the third and second strings.
I have written some suggested picking patterns in here to use as a guide to get you going.
Mr. Yorke and Nigel Godrich had started the song playing guitars, in staccato picking patterns that hinted at African rock.
And his music's blend of classical and progressive-rock intricacy, pointillistic backup singing and West African picking patterns rightly appeals to the equally eclectic Bjork.
The opening band, Edison Glass, played surging minisuites that juggled math-rock picking patterns on the way to choruses hinting at the Police and U2.
ROKIA TRAORÉ The perpetual-motion picking patterns of Malian tradition get roughed up as kora meets electric guitar and rock drums on Rokia Traoré's "Beautiful Africa" (Nonesuch).
There are minor variations, like key changes and picking patterns, but nothing as radical as the ways he would transform the songs in later years.
But with a new album, "Fondo" (Six Degrees), that concentrates on his own songwriting, Vieux Farka Touré is forging his own identity, expanding on his father's drones and gnarled picking patterns with a rocker's joyful audacity.
