{"id":7881,"date":"2020-01-14T19:45:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T03:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7881"},"modified":"2020-01-14T16:55:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T00:55:23","slug":"pick-fingers-claw-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/pick-fingers-claw-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick, Fingers, Claw&#8230; Yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albert King always used his fingers to pluck the strings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stevie Ray Vaughan pretty much always used a pick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Robben Ford uses sort of a &#8220;claw&#8221; with both the pick and his fingers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Which one are you?<\/p>\n<p>Why not all of them, or even more besides?<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people think you play with your fingers OR you play with a pick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And that seems silly to me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The choice is always clear based on the sound I want to hear. So I&#8217;ll give you some ideas and let you start playing around with getting some sounds you might not have used before.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, let&#8217;s talk about it:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qev6z6FZgjA?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert King always used his fingers to pluck the strings&#8230; Stevie Ray Vaughan pretty much always used a pick&#8230; Robben Ford uses sort of a &#8220;claw&#8221; with both the pick and his fingers&#8230; Which one are you? Why not all of them, or even more besides? A lot of people think you play with your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7882,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions\/7882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}