LB Style Guitar Tips

[Houseonthehill]

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

[Houseonthehill]

This is a great site if anyone was interested:

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

[iamnotafraid]

Originally Posted by Houseonthehill

So I have finally picked up my guitar after many a year of it sitting idle. Its been just the best release...

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

[WildHearted]

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.

[D.W-Suite]

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

[D.W-Suite]

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

[juniper]

^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!

[Stormwind]

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.