LB Style Guitar Tips
 

So I have finally picked up my guitar after many a year of it sitting idle. Its been just the best release for me and has helped me push through some personal barriers and just give me a wonderful sense of solitude.

Of course, Lindsey is my favorite guitarists, and his style is pretty unique with the thumb typically playing the low 3 strings, and then the other fingers following with the high 3. Its a very "raw" way of playing, and while I do enjoy the pick as well for those hard power chord kind of music or super quick shreading thing. I keep coming back to Lindsey's style.

I'm not trying to carbon copy it , but just get some educated inspiration and if anything work in particular for the guitarists on here for capturing the style. I'm contemplating trying to pick up a intro banjo book, because I believe that some of the styles are similar

This is a great site if anyone was interested:

http://www.freewebs.com/lbguitarsite/

Good for you. More people would pick
one up if they knew how good it could
make them feel.

Jorma Kaukonen is also a great fingerpicker (but stylistically slightly different than Lindsey)... he's got some lessons on youtube you can find where he really breaks stuff down and explains it very well.

If you're looking to play like Lindsey then I'd suggest the following 3 songs to start with. They kind of cover most of the standard styles he picks with....

Bleed to Love Her: This is a very basic banjoish pattern. He uses a slightly similar pattern on Rock Away Blind I think.

Landslide: This has the standard Travis picking pattern that Lindsey uses quite alot, The Chain, World Turning, Never Going Back Again to name a few.

Big Love: Because it's a great party piece :thumbsup:

And if anybody wants tabs I have Rock Away Blind, Seeds we Sow and Bleed to Love Her lying around here somewhere.

^These exactly. That's where I started. And I was a banjo player first. You will find the finger picking patterns for typical banjo favorites rather easy after you master these tunes...it's just a little disconcerting at first to hear that high G with your thumb when you have associated thumb with low bass sounds!

One of the things that for the most amazes me is represented by his muting technique. Banjo playing was fundamental for his style. A very unorthodox way of guitar playing.
A source of inspiration for me, I tried from the beginning to not copy his stile, but to take a bit of it to create my own style.